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1)				As Schools Languish Under Funding Cuts, Ohio Charter School Treasurer Embezzles Nearly $500K
2)				Please Register to Vote and make sure you vote. 18 - 35 year olds please know you can make a difference if you just vote.
3)				Meet Joe Ricketts: Billionaire Has Millions To Smear Obama, Demands Massive Taxpayer Subsidy For Baseball Stadium
4)				"Chicago police broke into multiple homes with guns drawn and began rounding up the sleeping activists and bystanders.They did not present a warrant. Police ransacked the home..."
5)				Mitt Romney: Why is he so unlikeable? Not even his own party can get behind him with any gusto. I personally thinks it's because he comes off as a salesman first, and statesman last.
6)				Obama appointed U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled Wednesday that Section 1021 of the NDAA was unconstitutional
7)				House bill basically provides Israel with a blank check drawn on the U.S. taxpayer to maintain its “qualitative military edge” over all of its neighbors combined.
8)				Stop Wall Street banks from gambling with our money.
9)				Legal Corruption: Critics are pointing to the insanely expensive cost of a helicopter part made by a company whose owners are major donors to Republican Representative Harold Rogers
10)				Mitt Romney demands tax returns from potential running mates but refuses to release more of his own
11)				Congressmen trying to lift ban on using propaganda on the American public
12)				Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
13)				Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'
14)				Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
15)				ALEC has model legislation that would limit state Attorney Generals from filling class action lawsuits against corporate interests like the tobacco and mortgage broker suits which led to billion dollar settlements
16)				Illinois requires your home address when applying for a homeless identification card.
17)				GOP Lawmaker Slams Gays With Bible Passage Calling For Their Death
18)				Reason For NDAA Now Becomes Clear: Protesters Charged w/ Providing Material Support 4 Terrorism Ahead of NATO Summit. POLICE STATE!
19)				Rush Limbaugh Defends Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saver for tax evasion.
20)				Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'
21)				Conservative groups outspending liberal counterparts 4 to 1 on congressional races - The Washington Post
22)				Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'
23)				Why Joe Biden Needs to Stay - "He isn't just vital to the White House -- he's been the most effective vice president in American history."
24)				FBI Agent Fleeing Massive Manhunt Warns “They’re All Insane”
25)				A New Attack on the Constitution - New York Times
26)				Romney employs a powerful visual aid, but hopes you don't realize it was the Bush tax cuts and wars that pushed it this high.
27)				Think Tanks Push ALEC to Go After Unions: At a closed-door ALEC meeting, Koch-funded policy shops unveil new restrictions on public-sector unions.
28)				How the Conservative Worldview Quashes Critical Thinking -- and What That Means For Our Kids' Future: The education of our children is a core cultural and political choice that reflects the deepest differences between liberals and conservatives.
29)				The ”GOP Solutions” tab on House Speaker John Boehner’s website takes you to a 404 page. Fitting.
30)				TIL James Kuehnlein, the police officer that was fired for threatening to fabricate and destroy evidence on tape, was hired by another department and is facing charges for kidnapping and head-butting a woman.
31)				Whitman’s lesson for Romney: Layoffs at Hewlett-Packard show why business leaders aren't automatically a good fit for the White House
32)				“If you Want Peace, Prepare for Peace. If you Want War, Prepare for War. The NDAA Prepares for War with Iran,” Kucinich.
33)				House Republicans kill proposal to block indefinite detention of US citizens: They accused the bipartisan NDAA opposers of wanting to "coddle terrorists"
34)				Everybody's so happy! Picture of Clinton signing repeal of Glass-Steagall Act, surrounded by Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, his banking cronies, John McCain, and Al Greenspan. "Have at 'er, boys! What the hell did FDR know about banking anyway?!"
35)				James O'Keefe's latest video is a fraud: He has a new video supposedly showing illegal voting by non-citizens; unfortunately for him, both people in the video are US citizens
36)				Geithner to Dimon: Resign From the Board of the New York Fed
37)				Romneys donate $150,000 in personal funds to campaign
38)				“In Texas, foster children were 53 times more likely to be prescribed five or more psychiatric medications at the same time than non-foster children,”
39)				Rahm Freezes Out Cubs Owners Over Proposed Obama Attack Ads \| Crooks and Liars
40)				ACLU: DEA Recording Americans’ Movements on Highways, Creating Central Repository of Plate Data
41)				A Victory for All of Us - "U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled Wednesday that Section 1021 of the NDAA was unconstitutional."
42)				Glenn Greenwald Tears Apart the Propaganda Driving the Insane Push for War With Iran (Embedded Media Link)
43)				Arizona official: It's 'possible' Obama won't make ballot if Hawaii officials don’t send him confirmation that the president was born there
44)				Mitt Romney praises Meg Whitman as she prepares to lay off 30,000 workers
45)				Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility - Will CCA seal a deal to build a civil detention facility in Crete, Ill., before the legislature votes to bar it?
46)				Conservatives at National Review accuses Elizabeth Warren of Plagiarism, Pareene at Salon proves them wrong, forced to retract
47)				Arizona Secretary of State Asks Hawaii to Verify President Obama’s Birth, Hawaii Asks Arizona Secretary of State to Verify Himself
48)				Massachusetts Democrats seeking information on Scott Brown and JPMorgan Chase
49)				Mississippi State Rep Condemns Gays To Death, Claims They Spread Disease
50)				Arizona official: It's 'possible' Obama won't make the ballot
51)				Average net worth of Americans under the age of 35: $3662
52)				America’s Women Can’t Be Trusted - When you strip everything away, that’s the root of the GOP’s campaign against abortion, contraception, and laws that protect women from domestic violence.
53)				It’s all about the metrics: Boehner Celebrated 8 straight mos. of job growth under Bush, but won't mention Obama's 26 month streak
54)				Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population
55)				NDAA indefinite detention upheld by Republicans. Turns out there is a HUGE difference between the parties.
56)				An amendment has appeared that would allow new propaganda techniques used by Pentagon and State Department on populations abroad to be deployed against American citizens
57)				Oklahoma Students Shown A Movie Comparing Abortion To The Holocaust
58)				Sodomy is a civil right.
59)				Mitt Romney in 2006 Blasted Same-Sex Marriage as a 'Blow to the Foundation of Civilization' \| rightwingwatch.org
60)				U.S. Issues Far-Reaching Rules to Stem Prison Rape - The Justice Department on Thursday issued the first comprehensive federal rules aimed at “zero tolerance” for sexual assaults against inmates in prisons, jails and other houses of detention.
61)				House Republicans Back Indefinite Detention On U.S. Soil
62)				Federal Employees Salaries are now public and searchable
63)				Up to 88% of Georgia college's faculty may quit over requirement to sign pledge against homosexuality, public drinking
64)				Tomorrow the mayor of Portland, OR will shave his head for children's cancer research. At time of post he has raised $215.00 of his $1,000,000 goal. Anybody able to help make that number a little less embarrassing?
65)				Top Right-Wing Group: Minority Births Are ‘Not A Good Thing’ Because They ‘Don’t Share American Values’
66)				Peter Peterson Spent Nearly Half A Billion In Washington Targeting Social Security, Medicare
67)				Ex-priest guilty of conspiring to kill boy who accused him or rape
68)				Surveillance Drone Spotted Near Chicago - For NATO Summit? (Embedded Media Link)
69)				Flashback: Mitt Romney Praises "President's Plan For Economic Recovery Including A Stimulus Bill" (Embedded Media Link)
70)				Arizona Official May Keep Obama Off The Ballot
71)				Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin (R) has been charged in state court with illegally using her government staff to perform campaign work in a scheme that also ensnared her sister, Jane Orie who is a state senator
72)				Sean Duffy Tells Fox that Obama Elected Because He Can Dance and Sing
73)				JPMorgan loss throws Republicans off balance.
74)				Elizabeth Warren comes out swinging on financial accountability
75)				Report Says Trayvon Martin Killing Was ‘Ultimately Avoidable’ \| TPMMuckraker
76)				"A mother who says her middle-school daughter was forced to let school officials browse the 13-year-old girl's private Facebook page is speaking out against the practice because, she says, 'other parents are scared to talk about it.'"
77)				Capital One flagged ‘Friends of Scott Walker’ for credit card fraud \| The Raw Story
78)				Curt Schilling Wants RI to Bail Out his Failing Business--and He's a Small Government Conservative
79)				Facebook co-founder planning to avoid hundreds of millions in taxes by renouncing U.S. citizenship and becoming Singaporean. “This p****s me off” says tech-industry billionaire Mark Cuban.
80)				President Obama's connection to Rev. Jeremiah Wright was toxic in 2008. A look at why, four years later, it's not such a big deal anymore
81)				GOP rookies buck Norquist's "No Tax Pledge"
82)				Paul Krugman argued that Mitt Romney is "running a campaign of almost pathological dishonesty."
83)				"A Kentucky businessman showed a heart of gold by buying the entire inventory of a closing K-Mart and donating it to charity."
84)				House GOP Throws Out Entire Summer Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations In Less Than 10 Minutes
85)				Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America. "After getting away with the crime of the century, Wall Street still isn’t satisfied".
86)				Krugman: The Occupy Movement Was 'Enormously Productive'
87)				Media Turns Its Back On Experts Who Blame GOP For Political Gridlock
88)				Eleven More Lawmakers Drop ALEC
89)				Sherrod Brown Held Corporations Accountable, Now They’re Spending Millions to Unseat Him
90)				Protests after Houston cop cleared of beating black teen: Holley's beating was videotaped by a security camera at a nearby business showing at least seven officers involved, kicking and stomping him as he lay face down on the ground
91)				Juveniles tried as adults in Texas face months or years of solitary confinement - for their protection.
92)				White House poised to veto $642 billion defense spending bill
93)				Medical Marijuana Ally Wins Oregon AG Race - "As attorney general, I will make marijuana enforcement a low priority, and protect the rights of medical marijuana patients," Rosenblum says on her campaign website.
94)				Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
95)				John Boehner caves to right wing pressure; says all of health care law must go
96)				Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett threatens to leave Obama off ballot.
97)				Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R) denies being a birther and then suggests Obama could be knocked off ballot for not really being born in US
98)				JPMorgan Unit Has $100 Billion of Risky Bonds
99)				The debt is not enough - "(austerity) doesn’t do anything besides create a self-fulfilling prophecy of national bankruptcy."
100)				Marijuana Advocates Spend Big And Defeat Drug War Proponent In Oregon