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DonViejo's JournalPope Backs Equal Pay for Women
Source: PoliticalWire/National Catholic Reporter
Pope Francis backed efforts for equal pay for men and women who perform the same work, saying that continuing disparities in pay for women are a “pure scandal,” according to the National Catholic Reporter.
Said Francis: “Why is it expected that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights. The disparity is a pure scandal.”
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Protester perfectly explains why nonviolent protesting is not always effective
"Now that we've burned down buildings...now all of the sudden everybody wants to hear us"JOANNA ROTHKOPF
On Tuesday, MSNBC correspondent Thomas Roberts spoke with a protester, identified only as Danielle, who perfectly explained the problem with pundits advocating nonviolent demonstrations in response to Freddie Gray’s death.
“My question to you is, when we were out here protesting all last week for six days straight peacefully, there were no news cameras, there were no helicopters, there was no riot gear and nobody heard us,” she said. “So now that we’ve burned down buildings and set businesses on fire and looted buildings, now all of the sudden everybody wants to hear us.”
“Why does it take a catastrophe like this in order for America to hear our cry?” Danielle continued. “I mean, enough is enough. We’ve had too many lives lost at the hands of police officers. Enough is enough.”
Watch the clip below, courtesy of MSNBC:
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http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/protester_perfectly_explains_why_nonviolent_protesting_is_not_always_effective/
Senator Rand Paul moves to nullify new ‘net neutrality’ rules
Source: Reuters
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential hopeful, on Wednesday introduced a resolution to block new regulations on Internet service providers, saying they would “wrap the Internet in red tape.”
The “net neutrality” rules, which are slated to take effect in June, are backed by the Obama administration and were passed by the Democratic majority of the Federal Communications Commission in February. AT&T Inc and wireless and cable trade associations are challenging them in court.
Paul’s resolution, if adopted, would allow the Senate to fast-track a vote to establish that Congress disapproves of the FCC’s new rules and moves to nullify them.
The move marks the most proactive position yet by Paul, a libertarian from Kentucky, on net neutrality, the principle that Internet providers should treat all Web traffic equally. The issue has grabbed national attention and prompted a record 4 million comments to the FCC, many of them from regular Americans calling to restrict Internet providers.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/senator-rand-paul-moves-to-nullify-new-net-neutrality-rules/
The hideous white hypocrisy behind the Baltimore “Hero Mom” hype: How clueless media applause excuse
The hideous white hypocrisy behind the Baltimore “Hero Mom” hype: How clueless media applause excuses police brutalityPraising a mom for beating her son suggests only violence can discipline black kids. And she doesn't feel heroic
JOAN WALSH
Baltimore’s “Hero Mom” has a name. It’s Toya Graham.
And the woman lionized nationwide for beating her 16-year-old son on camera, and dragging him away from Monday night’s riots, doesn’t feel at all like a hero.
“I don’t. I don’t,” Graham told CBS “This Morning” on Wednesday. “My intention was just to get my son and have him be safe.” Later in the interview, Graham confesses, “I just lost it.” (Watch the whole thing at the end of this post.)
Her moment of losing it made her a hero to much of white America – and not just to the right. Coast to coast, the media is hyping Graham as “Hero Mom” and her on-camera beating as “Tough Love.” It’s not just Fox News or the “New York Post,” whose tabloid “Send in the Moms” front page this time reflects rather than rebukes the mainstream media. And that’s heartbreaking.
The debate over the moment Graham says she “lost it” is complex. There’s a parallel black debate going on that, as always when it comes to racial issues, is richer and more nuanced. But anyone white who’s applauding Graham’s moment of desperation, along with the white media figures who are hyping her “heroism,” is essentially justifying police brutality, and saying the only way to control black kids is to beat the shit out of them.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/the_hideous_white_hypocrisy_behind_the_baltimore_%E2%80%9Chero_mom%E2%80%9D_hype_how_clueless_media_applause_excuses_police_brutality/
Justice Kagan On Botched Executions: Prisoners 'Burned Alive From Inside'
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices are engaging in an impassioned debate about capital punishment — part of Wednesday's arguments over the use of a single drug that has been used in several botched executions.
The justices heard arguments over the plea of death row inmates in Oklahoma to outlaw the sedative midazolam. They say it is ineffective in preventing searing pain from the other drugs used in lethal injections.
But the hour-plus session featured complaints from conservative justices that death penalty opponents are waging what Justice Samuel Alito called a "guerrilla war" against executions by working to limit the supply of more effective drugs.
Among the court's liberals, Justice Elena Kagan said the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners, in her words, "burned alive from the inside."
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‘ISIS using Baltimore to recruit dissatisfied blacks,’ warns conservative media report
An alleged jihadist with the curious habit of speaking primarily to an American right-wing writer claims Islamic State extremists are trying to recruit “dissatisfied” blacks during the Baltimore riots.
“ISIS is taking advantage of racial tensions in the U.S. by attempting to recruit dissatisfied Muslims among the American black population,” reported World Net Daily.
The report Wednesday by WND staffer and talk radio host Aaron Klein is sourced to Abu Saqer, who is identified as the leader of the Gaza-based Islamist militant group Jihadiya Salafiya. The claim has been picked up by other media outlets and promoted on conservative social media.
Saqer said he and other Islamists were encouraged by pro-ISIS T-shirts worn by protesters in Ferguson, Missouri – although Klein’s report makes clear the shirt was an ironic commentary on police brutality: “I rather get stopped by ISIS terrorist than Ferguson PD.”
Klein drew a link between those comments to the violent protests over the death of Freddie Gray, whose spine was severed while he was in police custody.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/isis-using-baltimore-to-recruit-dissatisfied-blacks-warns-conservative-media-report/
Majority of Republicans would attend a loved one’s gay wedding
Source: Reuters
A majority of U.S. Republicans would attend the same-sex wedding of a loved one, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Wednesday, highlighting the political risks for Republican presidential candidates who stake out positions against gay marriage.
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The poll showed 56 percent of Republicans would attend the gay wedding of a loved one if invited. That compares with 80 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of independents, who said they would go.
Overall, 68 percent of Americans would attend, the poll showed, while 19 percent would not and 13 percent were unsure.
The poll’s results suggests Republicans who stake out strong opposition to gay marriage could be on shaky political ground if their ultimate goal is to win the White House.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/majority-of-republicans-would-attend-a-loved-ones-gay-wedding/
Josh Duggar: Christians who aren’t allowed to discriminate against gays are victims of discriminatio
Josh Duggar: Christians who aren’t allowed to discriminate against gays are victims of discriminationReality television star Josh Duggar believes Christians should enjoy a special right to discriminate against LGBT people or be made victims of discrimination themselves.
The star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” who works for the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council, said Christians were being forced into silence on social issues such as same-sex marriage, reported CNS News.
“Right now in America there is an agenda to silence people of faith, those who hold a dissenting opinion,” Duggar said. “That’s not what America was founded on. America was founded on respect, tolerance, and really not discriminating against people based on their religious convictions.”
Duggar, the eldest of 19 children and affiliated with the Quiverfull movement, described his Christian views as mainstream orthodoxy.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/josh-duggar-christians-who-arent-allowed-to-discriminate-against-gays-are-victims-of-discrimination/
Does the GOP want a winner or a conservative?
WASHINGTON -- It's lucky that the presidential primary season has a long way to go, because Republicans seem no closer to deciding what their priority should be. A poll released Tuesday by Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning operation that has an impressive track record of predicting elections, put the question to Iowa GOP voters, who hold the first primary contest in the presidential cycle and have an outsize influence on picking the winner. The state’s Republican voters are split: 44 percent say they are more concerned about picking the most conservative candidate, and 45 percent say they would rather back the person more likely to beat the Democratic nominee.
The poll didn't name names, but Jeb Bush and Chris Christie would represent the moderate, more-likely-to-win-a-general-election side of the argument, with Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum to their right. (Scott Walker ranks slightly higher with the "ideology" side, while Marco Rubio may have lost support on the right because of his interest in immigration reform.)
The argument has been going on within the Republican Party for decades. In the 1952 primary featuring the conservative Robert Taft and more moderate Dwight Eisenhower, the moderate won. There was the 1964 primary featuring the moderate Nelson Rockefeller and conservative Barry Goldwater, who won the primary but lost the general election in a landslide. And conservatives will point to 1980, when moderates argued that Ronald Reagan was too conservative to win a general election and he defeated George H. W. Bush and went on to be a two-term president.
Iowa's Republican voters tend to skew conservative, said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. “If this question is asked in New Hampshire, I would expect a decisive margin for choosing an electable candidate,” he said. “There are clearly conservatives who buy the theory that the problem for the GOP is the party hasn't been nominating true conservatives who excite the base. But I suspect a majority of conservatives don't buy this, and certainly almost no one else does."
The Republican right does contend that conservatism and electability aren’t mutually exclusive. Santorum and Newt Gingrich spent much of 2012 arguing that a conservative candidate stood a better chance against Barack Obama in the general election because it would be a “stark contrast” and provide voters a “clear choice.” And conservatives are continuing to make that case. Cruz has said the “mushy middle” can't win.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/does-the-gop-want-a-winner-or-a-conservative/
GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval Wants To Pass Biggest Tax Hike In Nevada History
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Republicans made history last election when they took control of every statewide office and both houses of the Legislature for the first time since 1929. Now, they're on the verge of leaving an even more stunning legacy by implementing the biggest tax hike in state history.
Gov. Brian Sandoval has shaped a budget plan around raising or extending $1.1 billion in taxes, and intends to funnel the new revenue into the state's low-ranking public school system.
The tax package passed the state Senate last week and is up for consideration in the more-conservative Assembly. If it passes, Sandoval could rewrite the definition of the Republican Party.
But anti-tax conservatives are furious. They say the governor is hurting the Republican brand and ruining political prospects for himself and lawmakers.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nevada-sandoval-republicans-largest-tax-hike-state-history
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