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Don't Believe the Hype! Remember when the media tried to scare us with stories about a plague of "crack babies"? They were wrong. www.nytimes.com 190 TWEETS
Watch Crack Babies: A Tale From the Drug Wars video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage. Style and celebrity video.
www.nytimes.com/video/2013/05/20/booming/100000002226828/crack-babies-a-tale-from-the-drug-wars.html
Josh Horwitz: The NRA's Perverted View of America www.huffingtonpost.com 128 TWEETS
The NRA didn't just throw down the gauntlet to our government in Houston. It also articulated a vision of America and its ideals that is the antithesis of what our Founders intended, and which would mean the absolution of our Constitution."/>
www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/the-nras-perverted-view-o_b_3305416.html
BBC News - Warn young children about pornography, say heads www.bbc.co.uk 7 TWEETS
Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com 1943 TWEETS
Reporter’s movements at State were tracked and private e-mails were obtained, documents show.
Columbia University Tries To Alter Scholarship Fund For Students 'Of The Caucasian Race' | ThinkProgress thinkprogress.org 57 TWEETS
Columbia University asked a Manhattan judge to allow them to change the requirements of a scholarship fund which limits recipients to members “of the Caucasian race.” The Lydia C. Roberts fellowship was created in 1920 when a woman don
Higher consumer spending will offset sequester cuts, economists say - latimes.com www.latimes.com 36 TWEETS
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government's automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday.
Don’t Throw the IRS Under the Bus - The Daily Beast www.thedailybeast.com 9 TWEETS
Obama must not let Republicans further weaken the IRS, says Peter Beinart.
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/20/don-t-throw-the-irs-under-the-bus.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/20/apple-blackberry-samsung-pentagon www.guardian.co.uk 10 TWEETS
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YouLike Is A Dating Site That Thinks The Key To Finding Love Is Hate | TechCrunch techcrunch.com 496 TWEETS
YouLike describes itself as an interest-based social network and dating site that takes into account a user's dislikes, as much as what they do like, w..
Reports: W.H. told of IRS targeting probe in April - Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com www.politico.com 41 TWEETS
The White House counsel learned the preliminary results of a probe into the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups in late April. A senior White House official confirmed to POLITICO that Treasury Department staffers told White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemml
www.politico.com/story/2013/05/reports-wh-told-of-irs-in-april-91606.html?hp=f2
Silver Is Just About Finished - Business Insider www.businessinsider.com 3 TWEETS
The great bull run roundtrips.
www.businessinsider.com/silver-is-just-about-finished-2013-5
WaPo: Justice spied on Fox reporter in 2010 hotair.com 111 TWEETS
War by other means.
hotair.com/archives/2013/05/20/wapo-justice-spied-on-fox-reporter-in-2010/
A High Tech Solution for a Neighborhood Problem
| PBS NewsHour to.pbs.org 205 TWEETS
Spencer Michels sat down with Alex Pandel and Eddie Tejeda, two of the co-founders of an app called BlightStatus, as part of Code for America's fellowship program."Government is supposed to be about how we do things together and we can do that much m
Monster Oklahoma tornado kills 37 www.usatoday.com 7 TWEETS
A woman carries her child through a field Monday near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. A tornado as much as a mile wide, with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods, settin
www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/05/20/tornadoes-severe-weather-plains-midwest/2325875/
Kai Ryssdal asks Donald Rumsfeld some of the questions we've all wanted to ask www.dailykos.com 21 TWEETS
Kai Ryssdal, mild-mannered reporter for NPR APM's Marketplace, sat down with Donald Rumsfeld to discuss his new book, "Rumsfeld's Rules", a guide for 'effective leadership' (required reading for anyone who wants to know the fastest way to lead d
Back pages, May 20: Gareth Bale must stay at Spurs, says Andre Villas-Boas | Mail Online www.dailymail.co.uk 3 TWEETS
Andre Villas-Boas desperate to keep Gareth Bale this summer as Arsene Wenger vows to spend big. Read the headlines from the national newspapers on Monday, May 20.
