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Step into my life: Pray with me
Whatever you believe in please please pray with me, my country Syria is facing a series of massacres. Hundreds killed and almost a thousand injured in a matter of a few hours. Why? Because our people uttered the shameless simple word of liberty, of freedom, of the removal of tyranny. My country,…
“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.”
— Alphonse Mucha
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Quietly, U.S. Moves to Block Lawsuits by Military Families
While public officials are out waving the flag toward these families, federal lawyers in court are now quietly trying to expand the U.S. government’s legal immunity from exposure to medical malpractice claims brought by those very same military folks. Now, the feds want the courts to recognize a bold application of an old doctrine — an already heavily criticized old doctrine — that would bar many plaintiffs, whose loved ones serve their country, from exercising the right merely to be able to present the substance of their claims at trial. Read more.
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Think Progress: Colbert's Super PAC raises over $1 million, and includes this lovely letter:
Dear Sirs and Sirettes,
Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (ABTT) would like it entered into the record that as of January 30th, 2012, the sum total of our donations was $1,023,121.24.
Stephen Colbert, President of ABTT, has asked that I quote him as saying, ”Yeah! How you like me…
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