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6 Absurd Movie Plots You Won't Believe Are Based on Reality

www.cracked.com - We spend so much time here debunking silly things we see in fiction that it's easy to forget how truly ridiculous real life is in comparison. Even the silliest, most implausible characters or plots from action movies have come true.

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GOP Lawmaker: ‘Sodomy Is Not A Civil Right’ | The New Civil Rights Movement

thenewcivilrightsmovement.com - Virginia Republican lawmaker Robert G. Marshal says “Sodomy is not a civil right,” as his defense for blocking the judicial nomination of an openly-gay veteran.

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Storyboard: ‘Next’ - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com - A storyboard for a 5-minute film, titled “Next,” that has been proposed by Strategic Perception, a political public relations firm. It provides a rough outline for a film highly critical of President Obama’s background policies. It is awaiting app...

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Citizens United: Justice David Souter’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s momentous campaign finance case. - Slate Magazine

www.slate.com - The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin this week revealed  juicy bits from the Supreme Court’s deliberations as it considered Citizens United, the thunderous case in which the court allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on candidat...

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House Republicans vs. Gay Troops | Mother Jones

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Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ - ABC News

abcnews.go.com - Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U...

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Why Do Conservatives Hate Freedom? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

www.alternet.org - Since World War II, mainstream conservatives have opposed every expansion of personal liberty in the United States.

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Dan Kovalik: US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent

www.huffingtonpost.com - The vast majority of Americans do not even know that the U.S. is at war just south of our borders and do not understand why our Southern neighbors are crying out for a change in this senseless policy. The media's failure in this regard is inexcusa...

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Nearly All Rumors Agree: New iPhone Will Have a 4-Inch Screen

mashable.com - Nearly All Rumors Agree: New iPhone Will Have a 4-Inch Screen - http://t.co/1hn2R3Z8

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Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Brain: VIDEO

www.washingtonpost.com - NEW YORK — Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled peo...