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Lawmakers, economists spar over 'wasteful' US mortgage tax break
ReutersBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The popular U.S. tax deduction for mortgage interest is wasteful and does little to spur home ownership, economists from across the political spectrum said at a congressional hearing on Thursday, but many...Tags: Services and Shopping, Parties and Movements, Mortgages, Real Estate, Government
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House votes to honor victims of 1963 Birmingham church bombing
WASHINGTON -- On this year’s 50th anniversary of a deadly church bombing that helped spur passage of landmark civil rights legislation, the House voted Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to four black girls killed in the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Justice and Rights, FBI
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Body of openly gay mayoral candidate found in Mississippi
A person of interest is being held in the death of an openly gay candidate running for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., officials said on Thursday. The person being held has not been charged, Will Rooker, a spokesman for the Coahoma County sheriff’s...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Chuck Espy, Politics
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Rush to the defense? Not so fast
Dear David from Georgia: I want to thank you for the email you sent last week. It made me laugh out loud. It seems you were unhappy I took a shot at Rush Limbaugh a few days back. Limbaugh had argued that John Lewis might have avoided having his skull...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Satellite and Cable Service, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Rights, Rush Limbaugh
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Black History, Rush Limbaugh, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups
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Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Black History, Rush Limbaugh, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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Response to those rewriting black history: No
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Martin Luther King Jr., Rush Limbaugh, Black History, Crime, Law and Justice
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Column: Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. “If a lot of African-Americans back in the ’60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?” he said recently on his...Tags: Entertainment Events, Martin Luther King Jr., Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Justice and Rights, The Miami Herald
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Disarm the filibuster
On Jan. 3, there's a chance that the U.S. Senate will return to some semblance of a functioning legislative body. That day a majority of senators could vote to eliminate Rule XXII, which authorizes the notorious filibuster. Article 1, Section 6 of the...
Tags: Democratic Party, Jeff Merkley, Elections, Keith Ellison, U.S. Congress
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Liberal obsession with race is growing old
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...
Tags: Democratic Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Ku Klux Klan, Tim Scott, Parties and Movements
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FSU's Chris Thompson co-recipient of ACC's Brian Piccolo Award for courage
TALLAHASSEE -- Weeks after suffering his second season-ending injury in a year, Florida State running back Chris Thompson received a shot of good news from the ACC on Thursday. Due in large part to his patient and perservering attitude, the conference...
Tags: Virginia Cavaliers, Anthony Poindexter, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Jimbo Fisher, Miami Hurricanes
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HBO Ethel Kennedy documentary, interview give intimate, loving portrait of her life
Channel Guide MagazineBy Jacqueline Cutler HBO’s Ethel Kennedy documentary Ethel, debuting Oct. 18, is an intimate, loving portrait of the fun-loving, fearless woman, Ethel Kennedy, who was the wife of Bobby Kennedy and mother to their 11 children. It was through the...
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