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on January 31, 2015 in World News

CA Assemblywoman Introduces Cheerleader Rights Bill

CA Assemblywoman Introduces Cheerleader Rights Bill A new bill introduced Thursday in the California Assembly would provide cheerleaders of professional sports franchises with employee benefits and a minimum wage guarantee. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced AB 202 on Thursday in “a move that will better protect cheer athletes in the state from workplace abuses and bring equity to the multi-billion dollar professional sports landscape.” “NFL teams and their billionaire owners have used professional cheerleaders as part of the game day experience for decades,” said Gonzalez, herself a former cheerleader at Stanford University. “They have capitalized on their talents without… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Quebec woman suing cop who left her locked in back of police truck with man who ended up raping her

Quebec woman suing cop who left her locked in back of police truck with man who ended up raping her There was plenty of drinking in Tasiujaq that weekend in 2011, just as there was whenever a shipment of alcohol arrived in the isolated village in Quebec’s far north. The lone police officer on duty on the night of Sept. 19 had her hands full. Fresh out of police school, she had been on the job less than a month and was not even authorized to carry a sidearm. But as she apprehended a 17-year-old girl who had become heavily… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Crusade against Trinity Western law school runs up against a sensible judge

Crusade against Trinity Western law school runs up against a sensible judge Elements of Canada’s legal community have been fighting Trinity Western University’s attempt to open a law school for some time, hoping to have it barred from graduating lawyers. Trinity Western is a private Christian university in British Columbia. It plans to open its law faculty in September 2016, but has roused intense passions over its requirement that students agree to a code of conduct that prohibits “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.” People have the right to attend a private… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Bill would let Texas teachers legally kill students

Bill would let Texas teachers legally kill students Schoolteachers in Texas will be allowed to use lethal force against students without risking legal repercussions if a new bill being considered in the Lone Star State’s legislature becomes a law. The bill –HB 868, or the “Teacher’s Protection Act” – affords educators legal immunity in the unlikely event that they happen to kill any of their students during school-sanctioned events. Specifically, the bill – introduced to the Texas State Legislature on January 22 by Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Canton) – says “an educator is justified in using force or deadly force on… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Police Push For Anti-Cop Comments To Be Legally Considered ‘Hate Speech’

Police Push For Anti-Cop Comments To Be Legally Considered ‘Hate Speech’ The National Fraternal Order of Police is pushing for legislation to classify anti-police comments as “hate speech.” The 300,000 strong FOP says that police officers should fall under the Congressional hate crimes statute, and should thus be regarded as a protected minority. This bold move comes on the heels of two New York City police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were killed in the line of duty. The FOP codified their demands in a letter to the White House and Congress which say that police are the… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Pete Carroll admired by ‘9/11 Truth’ movement

Pete Carroll admired by ‘9/11 Truth’ movement Pete Carroll is a conspiracy theorist, at least that is how the conspiracy theory goes. And it is one that has gained the Seattle Seahawks coach an unlikely following from the “9/11 Truth” movement in the lead-up to his attempt to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Two years ago, Carroll met with former Army chief of staff and four-star general Peter Chiarelli and, according to Deadspin citing “sources,” brought up many popular conspiracy theories concerned with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center and quizzed Chiarelli about their veracity. When… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Conservatives and Liberals tied in voter support, poll shows

Conservatives and Liberals tied in voter support, poll shows A new Forum Research poll has the federal Conservatives and Liberals in a statistical tie. The federal Conservatives and Liberals are locked in a tie in voter support, according to a new Forum Research poll. The poll, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, shows the Conservatives have 35 per cent voter support and the Liberals 34 per cent — a tie when the poll’s margin of error is factored in. The opposition New Democrats are at 20 per cent. “Nothing much in particular has happened recently, the prime minister is no more popular,… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Big-money donors push Romney out for Bush

Big-money donors push Romney out for Bush ‘Mitt’s a great guy, but winning is everything in this business’ Well-placed whispers. Emails sent to deep-pocket donors. A silent, but swift campaign behind the scenes to swing support from the old establishment darling to the new. The net result: Mitt Romney is out, and Jeb Bush is in. According to a report in the New York Times, a coalition of wealthy and powerful Republican donors reached the decision early that Romney had his shot at being elected president, and it was time for new blood. “Donors who supported [Romney] last time refused… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

Former FBI assistant director, to keep budgets high, we must ‘keep fear alive’

Former FBI assistant director, to keep budgets high, we must ‘keep fear alive’ The Newburgh Sting, is a documentary about the FBI’s operation to ensnare four impoverished, naive New York men into an informant-driven fake terror plot. In the film, former FBI assistant director Thomas Fuentes defends the FBI’s conduct in the Newburgh Four case. He also says this: If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that ‘We won the war on terror and everything’s great,’ cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s… View Article

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on January 31, 2015 in World News

IRS Shuts Down Another High-Profile Asset Forfeiture Case

IRS Shuts Down Another High-Profile Asset Forfeiture Case, Gives $447,000 Back To Its Rightful Owners Thanks to our nation’s tax laws and liberal asset forfeiture programs, the IRS can seize funds from a bank account if it believes the account holder is attempting to bypass income reporting requirements by making deposits under the arbitrary $10,000 cutoff. The IRS doesn’t need to obtain evidence of wrongdoing or even ever press charges against the account holders. It just takes the money, and it’s up to those whose accounts have been emptied to prove that they weren’t “structuring” their deposits. Recently, it dismissed… View Article

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