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Study: Pets Give Us The Same Warm Fuzzies As Friends.

A dog is man’s best friend, the old adage tells us — and, indeed, new research shows that when it comes to fulfilling our basic psychological needs, humans do benefit from their pets in much the same way they do from their friends.  Researchers  …

President more conservative than GOTP :the truth

It wasn't an accident that OUR President took positions that pushed the opposing party off a right wing cliff. The further right he moved the further right they moved. It isn't often that one can control their opponents the way OUR President has played the GOTP. He even gave the …

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A Supreme Court Case - MOHAMAD, INDIVIDUALLY AND FOR ESTATE OF RAHIM,

  This case was brought to the Supreme Court based on Legislation that Congress pass...The Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991. It also illustrates the parts or part that Congress perhaps shouldn't have left out of the legislation. Hindsight is always 20/20. …

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When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: 'Ryan Budget' Edition

Six members of the Supreme Court are Catholics. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell are Catholics. Also in this new Catholic dynasty is the alleged wunderkindof Republican economics: perky Paul Ryan. Ryan wears his form of Catholi …

Romney Hopes to Bork the Courts

With four of the nine Supreme Court Justices now in their seventies, and the GOP Senate minority having bottled-up the Obama administration's nominations to the federal trial and intermediate appellate courts, the decision by the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, to  …

What role might the Supreme Court play in the next presidential election?

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: Suddenly the Supreme Court is looming large in yet another presidential election. In the 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore, the High Court ruled the recounting of votes in Florida - remember those hanging chads - must stop. Al Gore got a …

Partisan Spin Denies Obama Credit for Immigration Success

The headline should be striking:  U.S.A. Stops Illegal Immigration from Mexicoin its tracks.  That’s an underlying insight in a study by the Pew Hispanic Center released days before the Supreme Court heard arguments over the controversial Ar …

Indiana Teacher Fired From Catholic School For Using In Vitro Fertilization

An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suing in a case that could set up a legal showdown over reproductive and religious rights. Emily Herx's lawsuit accuses the Diocese of Fort Wayne-Sou …

The Woman who was Blasted by the Media for winning $3M from the McDonald's Hot Coffee Case: the Real Story and the Movie

An eye-opening indictment of the way big business spins the media.  This is a trailer for a film about four people who fought for damages against harms inflicted on them by corporations or professionals.  The media spin was amazing and you probably were affected by the spin.   …

Romney's principled, radical view for America

It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve. He would never put it this way, of course, but his approach looks forward by looking backward to  …

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