Denver police use pepper spray on downtown protesters; 11 arrested - The Denver Post

Denver police use pepper spray on downtown protesters; 11 arrested - The Denver Post: "A protest in downtown Denver on Wednesday evening turned violent and police used force and pepper spray on demonstrators.

Eleven adults were arrested, police said: Eight men and three women."

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N. TX demonstrators protest police shootings - Fox4News.com | Dallas-Fort Worth News, Weather, Sports

N. TX demonstrators protest police shootings - Fox4News.com | Dallas-Fort Worth News, Weather, Sports: "Several rallies took place Wednesday in both Dallas and Arlington, where demonstrators protested against police shootings.

The streets of downtown Dallas were filled Wednesday night with hundreds of demonstrators.

The rally started at 8 p.m. and was part of an event called Don't Shoot Dallas. It was sparked on social media with the hashtag #DontShoot.

Earlier Wednesday, other demonstrators held an open carry gun march through South Dallas to protest against police shootings.

Organizers there said the show of force served as a reminder of the right to bear arms to protect themselves from criminals and from police."
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Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: "I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray" - CBS News

Baltimore mom who smacked son during riots: "I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray" - CBS News: "The Baltimore mother caught on video repeatedly smacking her son after catching him throwing things at police during rioting in Baltimore told CBS News that she was only concerned about protecting him."
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Baltimore Mayor Gave Permission to Riot - The Daily Beast

Baltimore Mayor Gave Permission to Riot - The Daily Beast: "Yes, she said it.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood before the news cameras over the weekend and really did say, “We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well.”"

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Matt Drudge REALLY likes Martin O’Malley - The Washington Post

Matt Drudge REALLY likes Martin O’Malley - The Washington Post: "For close watchers of the Drudge Report — like me — there's been an obvious trend of late: Martin O'Malley is getting A LOT of positive coverage."

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Republicans Blame Obama For Tom Cotton Letter

Republicans Blame Obama For Tom Cotton Letter: "GOP lawmakers spent much of Tuesday being pressed on why Senate party leadership went around the White House with an open letter warning Iran that any nuclear agreement may be undercut in the future by Congress or Obama's successor. Several Republicans sought to distance themselves from the letter, saying that while they may not agree with the direction of nuclear talks with Iran, it was the purview of the president to conduct them."

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Undue force - Sun Investigates - The Baltimore Sun

Undue force - Sun Investigates - The Baltimore Sun: "The city has paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects. One hidden cost: The perception that officers are violent can poison the relationship between residents and police."

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$5,765,065

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Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes - NYTimes.com

FRACKIN!

Oklahoma Recognizes Role of Drilling in Earthquakes - NYTimes.com: "Abandoning years of official skepticism, Oklahoma’s government on Tuesday embraced a scientific consensus that earthquakes rocking the state are largely caused by the underground disposal of billions of barrels of wastewater from oil and gas wells.

The state’s energy and environment cabinet introduced a website detailing the evidence behind that conclusion Tuesday, including links to expert studies of Oklahoma’s quakes. The site includes an interactive map that plots not only earthquake locations, but also the sites of more than 3,000 active wastewater-injection wells."

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Ben Carson: South Carolina Shooting By Cop An "Execution... In The Street" - BuzzFeed News

Ben Carson: South Carolina Shooting By Cop An "Execution... In The Street" - BuzzFeed News: "Dr. Ben Carson said he was “aghast” at the death of unarmed black man in South Carolina who was shot as he ran from the scene of a traffic stop. Carson called the death at the hands of a police officer an “execution.”"

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9 charts that explain taxes in America - Vox

9 charts that explain taxes in America - Vox: "Americans get $1.3 trillion in tax breaks...

According to Joint Committee on Taxation data analyzed by the Pew Research Center, the government gave up an estimated $1.3 trillion this year by giving tax breaks to people and companies. (This is actually a little low, because it only counts tax breaks that account for $50 million or more.) The biggest breaks are for employers providing health insurance, and the dividends and capital gains taxes (which tax income at lower rates than if people earned it as salary), each account for more than $100 billion in waived taxes."

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TheChat: George W. Bush points to one big problem facing his brother’s presidential bid — himself | The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star

TheChat: George W. Bush points to one big problem facing his brother’s presidential bid — himself | The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star: " “Me.” — former President George W. Bush describing one big problem that his brother has as he seeks the presidency."

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/george-w-bush-jeb-bush-2016-117020.html

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RWW News: Santorum: 'Tyrant' Obama Destroying America

Santorum told the questioner that congressional Republicans are showing a “complete lack of leadership” in failing to stop Obama’s “dangerous” immigration actions: “As you’ve mentioned, the word tyrant comes to mind.”

FBI probing videotaped beating by San Bernardino deputies - LA Times

FBI probing videotaped beating by San Bernardino deputies - LA Times: "n San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies were placed on paid administrative leave Friday after TV news video showed them beating and kicking a suspect.

Sheriff John McMahon announced the move to place the deputies -- including a sergeant and a detective -- on leave during a news conference Friday afternoon. He said some of the actions on the tape appeared "excessive."

“I am disturbed and troubled by what I see," he said. "It does not appear to be in line with our policies and procedures.”"

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Video shows San Bernardino deputies beating man after horse chase | UTSanDiego.com

Video shows San Bernardino deputies beating man after horse chase | UTSanDiego.com: "It's a trend without end. Authority figures using excessive force to subdue and sometimes kill citizens of this country.
This time, 10 San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave as a result of their actions. Ten."
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Robert Bates shooting video - Business Insider

Robert Bates shooting video - Business Insider: "New footage has emerged of a reserve deputy fatally shooting an unarmed suspect this week in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ex-con Eric Harris, 44, was shot after police tackled him following a short foot pursuit following a gun-buying sting. The reserve officer who pulled the trigger claims he meant to shoot his stun gun.

Robert Bates, 73, was the deputy authorities identified as having fired the fatal shot."

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Jeb Bush Updates Voter Registration File To Say He's Not Hispanic - BuzzFeed News

Jeb Bush Updates Voter Registration File To Say He's Not Hispanic - BuzzFeed News: "Florida Gov. Jeb Bush updated his voter registration the day a New York Times story revealed he listed himself as Hispanic on the form in 2009.
A Bush spokesperson confirmed the change."

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‘Black Lives Matter’ Chants Heard In North Charleston | Here & Now

‘Black Lives Matter’ Chants Heard In North Charleston | Here & Now: "Today people are rallying in North Charleston, South Carolina, after a video surfaced yesterday showing a white police officer, Michael Slager, shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed black man."

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Michael Slager: Man says he filed previous conduct complaint - NY Daily News

Michael Slager: Man says he filed previous conduct complaint - NY Daily News: "Mario Givens, a black resident of North Charleston, S.C., says he was attacked and arrested for no reason by Officer Michael Slager in 2013. When he filed a complaint about excessive force, it went nowhere.

But now that Slager has been charged with the fatal, filmed shooting of Walter Scott, another unarmed black man, Givens is going public with his story.

"It could have been prevented," Givens, 33, told the Associated Press about Scott's death. "If they had just listened to me and investigated what happened that night, this man might be alive today."

Givens says Slager showed up at his house before dawn one September morning and banged on the door.

Wearing only a t-shirt and boxers, Givens opened the door and saw Slager on his porch."

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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Slager’s Attorney Dropped Him After Video Emerged - The Daily Beast

DROPPED!

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Slager’s Attorney Dropped Him After Video Emerged - The Daily Beast: "The lawyer who first represented Michael Slager, the North Charleston police officer charged with murdering Walter Scott on Saturday, said he dropped his client soon after a video emerged showing Slager shooting Scott eight times as he ran away."
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North Charleston Is Better Than Ferguson - The Daily Beast

North Charleston Is Better Than Ferguson - The Daily Beast: " South Carolina — In 2004, I offered a ride home to a friend and ended up having my car’s interior ripped apart by the cops. The problem was, my friend was black, and he lived off of Spruill Avenue. That’s just across the border in North Charleston, a few exits and a world away from the historic homes and restaurants of peninsular Charleston."

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Jeb Bush Seems to Shift Tone in His Praise of Indiana Law - First Draft. Political News, Now. - NYTimes.com

Jeb Bush Seems to Shift Tone in His Praise of Indiana Law - First Draft. Political News, Now. - NYTimes.com: "Jeb Bush appeared to modify his public comments about Indiana’s “religious freedom” law on Wednesday in a closed-door Silicon Valley fund-raiser, telling a small group of potential supporters that a “consensus-oriented” approach would have been better at the outset.

Mr. Bush’s comments were strikingly different in tone and in scope from what he said on Monday night in an interview with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. In that interview he praised Gov. Mike Pence "

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Google is forcing big broadband providers to boost speeds - Vox

Google is forcing big broadband providers to boost speeds - Vox: "When Google first announced its plans to offer 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service back in 2010, it seemed ridiculously fast. At the time, many households had broadband speeds that were 100 times slower, and only a handful of cities had residential internet service anywhere close to 1 gigabit.

Today, Google offers gigabit in Kansas City, Austin, and Provo, Utah, and it's gearing up to offer service in several additional metro areas in the next couple of years. At the same time, incumbent cable and telephone companies have become a lot more interested in offering high-speed broadband service."

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Unemployment rate by state - Business Insider

Unemployment rate by state - Business Insider: "As of February, the US national unemployment rate sat at 5.5%.

Of course, that rate is higher in some states than others.

Here's a map of the unemployment rate by state from Wells Fargo senior economist Sam Bullard."

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Let's be clear: The Obama Crusades controversy is over whether it's okay to hate Muslims - Vox

Let's be clear: The Obama Crusades controversy is over whether it's okay to hate Muslims - Vox:

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Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year - Vox

Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year - Vox: "Stanford University will provide free tuition to parents of students who earn less than $125,000 per year — and if they make less than $65,000, they won't have to contribute to room and board costs either.
Students are still expected to pay $5,000 toward college costs from summer earnings and working part-time while enrolled in college."

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Arkansas Governor: My Son Asked Me To Veto 'Religious Freedom' Bill

Arkansas Governor: My Son Asked Me To Veto 'Religious Freedom' Bill: ""My son Seth signed the petition asking me, Dad, the governor, to veto this bill," he added. "And he gave me permission to make that reference, and it shows that families -- and there's a generational difference of opinion on these issues."


Seth Hutchinson is a labor organizer with the Texas State Employees Union, and he signed a MoveOn petition on March 29. He was not immediately available for comment."

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Insane Lady at Rick Santorum Event: Obama Tried to Nuke Charleston

Insane Lady at Rick Santorum Event: Obama Tried to Nuke Charleston: "Because he has nothing better to do, shitty former Senator and hilarious former Presidential candidate Rick Santorum was at the South Carolina National Security Action summit today. Also at the summit was a retired schoolteacher named Virginia, whose rambling, spirited question to Santorum stretched for an incredible two minutes before being mercilessly aborted by event organizers. Luckily, there's video. Incredible, beautiful video."

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