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Facing Common Struggles, Domestic Workers Mobilize Across Borders

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 4:55 PM EDT (Working In These Times)

The United States isn't unique when it comes to political and social crises related to immigration. Migrants in other parts of the world face similar, sometimes much harsher struggles. Even those who are "legal" are often extremely vulnerable to economic exploitation, ra …

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Republicans Will Find Themselves in Tough Spot if Supreme Court Strikes Down Obamacare

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 4:55 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

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As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pointed out in the segment above, if the Supreme Court ends up ruling that the Affordable Care Act, otherwise commonly referred to as "Obamacare" is not Constitutional or against the individual mandate, Republicans may very well find themselve …

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BREAKING: Fracking Fluids Could Contaminate Freshwater Aquifers, Says Study

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 4:01 PM EDT (Truthout - All Articles)

Seeded by Bart Gruzalski

The chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little as tens of years.

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Virginia Lawmaker And Senate Candidate: 'Sodomy Not a Civil Right'

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:55 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

Seeded by Carloz

During an interview on CNN with Republican Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall, host Brooke Baldwin compared the struggle for LGBT rights to discrimination against African Americans and asked the lawmaker why he voted to block Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland from b …

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Study: Increased Equality For Women And African-Americans Has Boosted U.S. Productivity

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:44 PM EDT (Think Progress)

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One study by four economists even found that expanding opportunities for women and African Americans over the last 50 years has offered a serious boost to U.S. productivity growth: Fairness, they contend, has made the economy more productive. Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Charl …

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Old America....Innocent Until Proven Guilty, New America....Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Fri May 18, 2012 3:21 PM EDT

By Marshall James

Remember the old saying "innocent until proven guilty?" It was and in my mind is still is one of the foundations that make this country great. Presumption of Innocence: That we waited to proclaim guilt until it was proven in a court of law. Now the left wi …

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Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 3:08 PM EDT (The Center for Public Integrity)

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By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …

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House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To Veto

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:51 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

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The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …

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House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2012 2:48 PM EDT (Center for American Progress)

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One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …

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