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The Deeds campaign has done an awfully impressive job of putting together a website highlighting Bob McDonnell's plan for the Republican Party. It looks great, the statements are well cited and put in their current context. Really, well done.
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The Republican Party of Florida is outraged—OUTRAGED!—that President Obama will be speaking to schoolchildren next week to "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning."
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Exhaust allows the body to grow the blood vessels that allow a tumor to thrive, and is even effective enough to cause new tumors to grow in healthy tissue. To be clear: diesel fumes kill people. This is no longer a matter of correlation, but causation.
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This is a really great bit of investigative journalism about how the plastics industry is fighting regulation of BPA, through lobbying, buying influence, and just plain corruption, using precisely the same methods tobacco companies used in decades past. Don't miss their diagram of the web of relationships that they uncovered.
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The New York Daily News' story was total fiction. The musician does not have a doctorate or, in fact, any other degree. She was never signed by the label in question. Obviously, Shanté had to tell some whopping big lies to the Daily News for this story to be published, but the reporter also had to either be complicit or desperately incompetent. (And the reporter's editor has some 'splaining to do, too.)
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The Shante story saddens me. She was featured in one of those VH1 “remember this” series and I didn’t recall them mentioning any of the education issues when this most recent story broke. Oh well, would have been cool if it were true.
The racial implications of the fake story and “record execs not expecting a young black girl from the ghetto to amount to anything” is pretty similar to crazy white pulling some crazy crime then saying an imaginary “black man did it”. Funny how that works. At first, you could imagine some sleazy record exec thinking along those lines. But the fact that someone wrote a fake story knowing people would accept thinking about a record exec like that makes me scratch my head.