OK Judge Permanently Blocks Anti-Abortion Law | FMF Blog

An Oklahoma Judge ruled on Friday that a proposed state law severely restricting medication abortions is unconstitutional, permanently blocking the enforcement of the bill.  Oklahoma County District Judge Donald Worthington issued the ruling against the bill, which banned  …

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German Attitude Toward Barack Obama's Healthcare Reform - SPIEGEL ONLINE

This article was originally seeded by chitownty.

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Carroll Shelby Dies at 89 - MSN Autos

Automotive legend Carroll Shelby, perhaps best known for creating the Shelby Cobra during an expansive and successful career as a race-car driver, automaker, team owner and entrepreneur, died Thursday night at Baylor Hospital, in Dallas. He was 89.

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Vladimir Putin Returns to Presidency in Russia - NYTimes.com

Насмешка над свободой и демократией. Диктатура! A mockery of freedom and democracy. Dictatorship!

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Obama Hits Syria With Brutal Blast of Adverbs - Bloomberg

It's a very rare bird indeed for me to criticize President Obama. I love the man. And I understand that he's in a tough spot politically. I understand that. And I am also damned sure that America and the world would not be better off with a nice, but clueless rich kid runnin …

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Those Revolting Europeans: How Dare the French and Greeks Reject a Failed Strategy!

The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it’s about time. Both countries held elections Sunday that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down. It’s far from clear how soon the vot …

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Greek Voters Face Dilemma in Sunday's Election - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Does any of this sound familiar?

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Syria cease-fire gives nonviolent activists a new beginning - chicagotribune.com

For months, activists who helped spark the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad by nonviolent means had seen it slip away as others in the opposition took up arms and the conflict began to resemble a civil war.

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Syria using malware to spy on activists - UPI.com

HELSINKI, Finland, May 4 (UPI) -- Syria is spying on activists by using malware to infect computers using the Skype Internet communication software, a Finnish security solutions company says.

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Activists: Syria forces fire on protest; Teen dead - CBS News

An Aleppo-based activist said the protests were the largest the city has seen since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011. Aleppo is a major economic hub that has remained largely loyal to Assad over the course of the 14-month uprising.

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State of the Climate Summary Information | March 2012

U.S. records warmest March; more than 15,000 warm temperature records broken NOAA's U.S. Climate Extremes Index, an index that tracks the highest 10 percent and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones, was 39 percent, nearly t …

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Oklahoma State Supreme Court Rules "Personhood" Measure Unconstitutional

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday halted an effort to grant “personhood” rights to human embryos, saying the measure is unconstitutional.

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U2 Luciano Pavarotti Miss Sarajevo Original Video - YouTube

This is for you, bobby.

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Syria suicide bomb kills 10 | JournalNow.com

Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets across Syria for weekly anti-regime marches after Muslim noon prayers Friday. Amateur video from the central city of Homs, where the presence of U.N. observers helped halt weeks of artillery attacks, showed rows of men lining  …

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Jimi Hendrix Red House Live Stockholm 1969 THE BEST VERSION! - YouTube

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UN Council set to vote on Syria monitors - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

More than 130 people have been killed since the ceasefire started, however, and Ban pointedly told the council this week that President Bashar al-Assad had not kept a commitment to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from population centres.

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Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

"The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. "And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I've never seen anything like this either."Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University's Department of Oc …

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The World from Berlin: 'Exile May Be Assad's Only Chance to Save His Life' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

"It looks as if the repressive Syrian regime will let its last opportunity for a negotiated solution pass. It is doing so in a complete misjudgement of the situation in which dictator Bashar Assad finds himself. There cannot and won't be a political future for him in his countr …

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Syria cease-fire violations reported, including killings - latimes.com

On the second day of a United Nations-backed peace plan to end violence and unrest in Syria's 13-month uprising, mass protests returned to the streets and in some places were met with gunfire, killing at least eight people, according to activists.

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A Tenuous Cease-Fire Prevails in Most of Syria - NYTimes.com

United Nations diplomats said they were encouraged by the apparent adherence to the cease-fire on its first day by President Bashar al-Assad’s government and his opponents in the conflict, but emphasized that the government had yet to make good on its pledges under the pl …

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Tulsa Police Arrest 2 Men in Shootings - NYTimes.com

Senseless and stupid.

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Keith Olbermann gets fired again | Washington Times Communities

Here's Peter Bella--B as in bellicose--having his little dance in Hell. Being such a great human being and a model of conservative values, he joyfully wallows like a pig in the demise of that evil lefty Keith Olbermann, and then proceeds ad nauseum to describe what a bunch of hat …

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