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Tuberculosis patient charged in Calif. for not taking medication
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 12:28 PM EDT (CBS News)
Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious. Health officials said Armando Rodriguez, 34, of Stockton has active pulmonary tuberculosis, whic …
NRW's awesome election system blows up state assembly by some 56 representatives (= 31 pc) - a boon for all parties with more than 5 pc share
Thu May 17, 2012 9:34 AM EDT
Germany's state assemblies have a neat method to blow up their parliaments by a two-tier voting system, unheard of in other countries. Now, what's the trick behind it? Well, in the first place, honoring party service at the expense of the taxpayers. Well, the latest state electi …
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5 Ways to Make America Less Fat
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:19 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
If Benjamin Franklin was writing his famous letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy today, his famous aphorism might read: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and the obesity crisis.” It seems no matter the year or the season, that crisis ine …
How the Christian Right's Homophobia Scares Away Religious Young People
Seeded on Thu May 17, 2012 8:11 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Christian Right activists who give money, pressure politicians and organize against gay rights may think they’re accomplishing a couple of goals, like rolling back gay rights and asserting their religion’s primacy in American culture. Unfortunately for them (but for …
iPhone 5 Stalls Mobile Market Growth
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:25 PM EDT (Forbes)
Worldwide sales of cellphone have fallen for the first time since 2009, as consumers choose to wait for Apple‘s next iPhone before upgrading, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Germany's Environment Minister got "merkel'ed" - Norbert Roettgen dismissed today for NRW debacle
Wed May 16, 2012 12:21 PM EDT
(Sarc) A new English verb in terms of political sciences should be added: to merkel = to sweep or push away unwanted political big heads in your own party, mostly male, from their posts due to unpopularity, plagiarizing, subjective fear of getting stabbed in the back by own poli …
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The Third Party Fantasy
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 7:09 AM EDT (The New York Times)
“Third parties are like bees,” the intellectual historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1955. “Once they have stung, they die.” It’s an aphorism that aptly describes the anti-slavery and anti-immigrant parties of the mid-nineteenth century, the Popul …
Public Order Act: Free speech 'strangled by law that bans insults'
Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 6:31 AM EDT (the Mail online)
Theresa May is being urged to reform a controversial law which bans ‘insulting words or behaviour’ amid mounting evidence that it is strangling free speech. Campaigners say the Public Order Act is being abused by over-zealous police and prosecutors to arrest Christ …
Bubba Carpenter, Mississippi GOP Lawmaker, Lauds Potential Return Of 'Coat Hanger' Abortions
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 5:03 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Republican Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter recently gave a callous assessment of a state anti-abortion law that critics have cautioned could close down the state's only abortion clinic. Abortion rights advocates have protested the measure, claiming that the shuttering o …
Franciscan University Drops Entire Student Health Insurance Plan Over Birth Control Mandate
Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 4:32 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic institution in Ohio, has decided to drop its entire student health insurance plan as of the fall semester 2012 because of the new federal rule requiring contraception coverage under most employee and student health policies. Whi …
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