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DVT Killed Heavy D

An update on the death of Heavy D: An autopsy performed on Heavy D has revealed his cause of death to be a pulmonary embolism. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office found that the rapper died of a blood clot in his lung, and also suffered from a deep leg vein thrombosis and heart disease at the time of his …

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Vaccine Deniers Plan New Year’s Eve Ad

Perhaps fueled by Michele “Vaccines Cause Retardation” Bachmann, a vaccine denial group plans to show their latest ad to the one million+ throng that will gather in Times Square on New Years Eve. The ad has already been running twice an hour there since last week. “In 2012, NVIC is marking our 30th year of public education and consumer empowerment,” …

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Gingrich: I Will Pack The Courts With Judges From Christianist Universities

Continuing on his quest to reform America into a Christianist theocracy, Newt Gingrich says that as president he will appoint federal judges from extremist right-wing universities. Right Wing Watch has the quote: You start looking at people of the caliber of [NOM founder] Robbie George of Princeton, you look at [Pat Robertson’s] Regent University, you look at [Dead Jerry Falwell’s] …

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Samoa Cancels Friday

There will be no Friday in Samoa this week. The decision to push the international dateline further to the east and go back to the future — going directly from Thursday to Saturday — was prompted by new economic realities rather than a need to be the first place in the world to celebrate New Year’s Day in 2012. Samoan …

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