Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style" | The Smoking Gun

A witness told Florida cops that he saw Trayvon Martin straddling George Zimmerman and pummeling the neighborhood watch captain “MMA style” shortly before the unarmed teen was felled by a gunshot to the chest. The witness’s account was included in Sanford Polic …

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Ron Paul pushes measure to guarantee due process to detainees — U.S. citizen or not

Now that Ron Paul is scaling back his campaign, it’s back to business. The Texas congressman dropped in on a House press conference to support a bipartisan amendment to the defense authorization bill, the National Journal reported. The amendment, proposed by members of th …

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Maryland Assembly OKs $260M tax hike, teacher pension shift

  ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly passed a $260 million tax increase Wednesday as it adjourned from a three-day special session that ended with Gov. Martin O'Malley saying he will bring lawmakers back for another session this summer. The House gave final  …

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Rhode Island Considers First-Of-Its Kind ‘Homeless Bill Of Rights’ « CBS Connecticut

Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it’s the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time. “I get the looks,” said …

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California's Jerry Brown offers budget plan to close $16-billion gap

Brown, who promised voters while campaigning in 2010 that he would end years of budget trickery in Sacramento, acknowledged that he was relying on "one-time revenues to handle one-time problems."He added: "This is the best that I could do."The revised spending plan would cut Medi …

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Fables of Wealth

Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.

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Arizona Ron Paul supporters boo Romney's son off stage

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Is Ron Paul's Army Going Rogue? - Business Insider

In recent reports from the Idaho Statesman, several of Paul's Idaho activists have detailed plans for a "hostile takeover" of the state Republican Party convention, and a "scorched earth" strategy to overturn the results of Idaho's March caucuses, which Romney won with 62% of the …

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Sweatshop Workers Making Obama Sweatshirts Subjected to Brutal Conditions, Racial Harassment, Called Lazy and Stupid

A $95 sweatshirt currently being sold in President Obama’s campaign store is the work of Alexander Wang, a designer who’s facing a class action suit in federal court for allegedly running a sweatshop where garment workers were forced to work 100 hour weeks in a fact …

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