Pin ItemailprintNever underestimate the power of angry people in large numbers. Today, it is finally safe for the internet to declare victory. The House of Representative and the U.S. Senate have scuttled both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) AND the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), throwing both pieces of legislation into limbo. The Senate had [...]
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As we announced yesterday, Wikipedia will join several other websites tomorrow (including Blippitt) in “blacking out” or “going dark” in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales posted to Twitter yesterday to announce that the English version of Wikipedia will go dark on Wednesday [...]
Today, President Barack Obama demanded that Republicans in the House of Representatives pass a short-term payroll tax cut extension, remaining defiant in a battle that could lead to increased taxes for 160 million Americans. Earlier, the Republican-led House rejected a short-term deal passed by Democrats and fellow Republicans in the Senate this past weekend and [...]
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Here are your top stories for this Saturday, December 10, 2011: – Senate democrats will not pass payroll tax bill – Authorities say the gunman at Virginia Tech was acting alone – Occupy Boston protest continues – The NBA kills blockbuster trade
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Is pizza a vegetable? It may surprise you to think that Congress wants to make it so. The House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that abandons proposals that threatened to take pizza and french fries off of federally funded school lunch menus. The scrapped proposals stemmed from a 2010 child nutrition law calling on [...]
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Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has just been found guilty on 17 of 20 counts in his second corruption trial. The jury found him not guilty on one count and was hung on two others. Jurors were hung on counts 11 and 16 and Blagojevich was found not guilty on count 17. Blagojevich, 54, faced [...]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fell while exercising in the rain this morning and has suffered minor injuries. Reid dislocated his shoulder and has a bump over his left eye after the fall, according to spokesperson Jon Summers. He has been treated and released from George Washington University Hospital, just blocks from his home. Summers [...]
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The new sex-obsessed MTV show Skins is coming under heavy fire from the Parents Television Council. The PTC is calling for a federal investigation into possible violations of child pornography laws. They want the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Senate, AND the House Judiciary Committee to investigate some of the shows scenes which depict [...]
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It’s official. The U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy has been overturned and the Senate has just voted to allow gays to serve in the armed forces. The DADT policy has been in place for 17 years, but now President Barack Obama has the opportunity to make good on one of his campaign promises. [...]
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Christine O’Donnell‘s people have taken to Facebook to blast a much-criticized, anonymous report of a late-night encounter involving the Republican Senate candidate that was published on the Gawker website on Thursday. In a Facebook post, Doug Sachtleben, O’Donnell’s communications director, condemns the article as sexist “slander” that is typical of the way members of the [...]
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Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is denying allegations that he offered to raise campaign funds for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the Senate seat that was then being vacated by President Barack Obama. Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak, who has aided in fundraising for both Blagojevich and Jackson, claims that back in [...]
Alvin Greene, a U.S. Senate nominee and political unknown who became the upset victor of the South Carolina Democratic primary election, was indicted today by a grand jury on charges of obscenity. Greene was indicted on one felony count of disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity and one misdemeanor count of communicating an obscene message to [...]
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