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Obama Will Mandate One Child Per Family

“Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, she said that it’s important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government. Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services secretary, it isn’t farfetched to think that the president of the United States could say, we need to …

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Your Disco Needs You

Here’s a novel way to launch an org. The Community Brave Foundation is a brand new organisation that aims to make bullying, homophobia, transphobia and youth suicide a thing of the past. The project is inspired by The Trevor Project, It Gets Better and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. The Community Brave Foundation is the brainchild of Rami Mandow …

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A Monthly HIV Preventive?

More news from the conference in Seattle. The first trial in humans of an injectable, once-a-month formulation of an HIV drug has found that drug levels were maintained at a level that should in theory be high enough to protect recipients against infection, and that the drug has so far produced very few side effects. The research was presented at …

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KONY 2012

27M views in three days. The Guardian has questions. Since Monday more than 21m people have viewed this film, made by an American charity called Invisible Children, about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, leader of the guerilla group the Lords Resistance Army. His army is said to have abducted 60,000 children. …

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OMM Surrenders On JC Penney

One Million Moms says that since it’s clear that JC Penney doesn’t care what fascist hate groups think, they are moving on to antagonize other companies. From the AFA: Despite opposition from the American Family Association’s advocacy group One Million Moms, the retailer is backing its commitment to the Ellen DeGeneres (see earlier story). Director Monica Cole tells OneNewsNow that …

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Barney Frank Benched In House Spat

Talking Points Memo reports: House GOP Leaders are pushing a modest, but bipartisan bill called the JOBS Act, which includes a handful of measures with broad support in both parties. One measure in that bill would quadruple the number of shareholders that can invest in local banks. Republicans credit Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) for drafting this portion of the legislation, …

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