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Hospitals would need to check the immigration status of uninsured patients under a new bill introduced by an Arizona lawmaker. Rep. Steve Smith’s (R) H.B

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A study released on Monday found that the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover declined by 50% in the past 27 years, partially as a result of human activities. These dramatic findings have caught the attention of scientists , politicians and some media outlets — even Researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science examined thousands of surveys of the area and found that the amount of seafloor covered with coral has decreased from 28% to 13.8% since 1985, with two-thirds of the decline occurring since 1998. They warned that if this trend continues, “coral cover could halve again by 2022.” The study attributed about half of this loss to intense tropical cyclones , which have caused significant damage to the central and southern parts of the reef and may become more intense as a result of climate change.

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Politicians from both parties twist facts or spin policy, but Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has had a particularly strained relationship with the truth, repeating false claims with impunity — even after fact checkers, mainstream media organizations, and blogs have all debunked their assertions.

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Every four years the United States becomes gripped in morbid fascination with our electoral machinations, and grassroots organizers often find their ongoing work derailed by the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions that precede our presidential elections. This 2012 cycle is no different. As activists prepare to protest, the police departments and ruling elites in the host cities are acquiring the newest non- and less- lethal weaponry, while passing laws and regulations that vie for being more repressive and harmful to free speech than the others

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Rhetoric Race and Religion . This blog explores and examines the intersections of rhetoric, race, and religion . Monday, August 6, 2012.

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The most dangerous enemy is the one who most resembles you.

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Rhetoric Race and Religion . This blog explores and examines the intersections of rhetoric, race, and religion . ….

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In a July 30 editorial opposing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the Wall Street Journal opined that planning for the new health insurance marketplaces called Exchanges belongs on a “fiasco list.” However, the editorial misrepresented the pace of exchange planning, downplayed the catalyst of Republican “civil disobedience” in implementation slow-downs, and obscured the role that right-wing media and advocates have in this intransigence. States That Have Attempted Exchange Implementation Are Actually “Well Underway” Many of the nation’s leading health policy organizations are closely monitoring implementation of health care reform and exchange progress is one of their metrics

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By Brian Gilmore, June 20, 2012 Forty years after the break-in at the Watergate, our democratic institutions need to be put in better working order or we risk more abuses at the hands of the executive branch. read more

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The right-wing website Daily Caller yesterday published an article by Jim Pontillo, the firearms manufacturer they have partnered with for their controversial gun giveaway promotion. The publication drew criticism last week following the revelation of Pontillo’s past  racially offensive and insurrectionist writings . Pontillo’s article for the “Guns and Gear” section is a list of the “Top 10 Guns You’ll Find at the Neighborhood Liberal Gun Store” and disparages a wide range of Democratic politicians. Pontillo’s list includes the “Pelosi Clinton Mini Derringer” (“Pull the trigger and this pocket pistol shrieks and cackles.  No man can stand to be in the vicinity when this thing goes off.”). The Daily Caller’s decision to publish Pontillo’s political musings comes only a week after the website said his views were irrelevant, telling the Washington Post , “All that’s germane to the contest is that he’s a fully licensed firearms manufacturer. If we were giving away iPads, the political views of Apple would also be irrelevant.” The Caller’s decision to feature Pontillo’s work follows their “Guns and Gear” section editor’s disclosure that he and Pontillo came up with the idea for the Caller gun promotion together. This is not the first time Pontillo has written for the Caller. In December he authored a rambling piece for the site criticizing “those who lament America’s cultural evolution toward secular society” for “devoid[ing] the moral absolutes that served our Founding Fathers” and attacking “the political class and by the main stream media” for supposedly disparaging his customers.

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