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• Pregnant Woman With Child in the Car Tased Three Times After Being Pulled Over for Speeding

  Source: AlterNet.org

  What is it with cops and tasers? Why do so many of them seem compelled to use them in highly inappropriate ways? "Highly inappropriate" is about the only way to describe what happened to Malaika Brooks, who was seven months pregnant and driving her kid to school one day in 2004 …

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• How Mitt Romney gets away with his lying

  Source: The Washington Post

  Yesterday, Mitt Romney gave a big speech in which he accused Obama of lighting a “prairie fire of debt.” It’s a good line, and it has received widespread media coverage. Romney’s speech has already been dissected by Jonathan Chait and Steve Benen. They  …

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• Trayvon Martin Autopsy: Knuckle Injury Was Tiny, but Gunshot Was at 'Intermediate Range'

  Source: Little Green Footballs

  More details are emerging on the autopsy results for Trayvon Martin, and earlier reports that his knuckles were skinned (as if from a fight) seem to have been inaccurate. The autopsy reported only a tiny abrasion about a quarter-inch long on his left ring finger. And poss …

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• Elisabeth Hasselbeck gets smacked down by the President

  Source: Daily Kos

  I love The View with one exception. That exception is Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

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• REPORT: FBI May Charge George Zimmerman With Hate Crime, Could Face Death Penalty

  Source: Think Progress

  The State of Florida has charged George Zimmerman with murdering Trayvon Martin. But that might not be the end of his legal problems. According to WFTV, an affliate of ABC in Orlando, Zimmerman may soon be charged with a hate crime by the FBI: WFTV has learned charges against …

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