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Boehner Drops Obama Lawsuit; Says It Would Mean Doing Something
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dropped his plans to sue President Obama on Friday, explaining to reporters, “I realized it would mean doing something.” In a brief appearance before the press, Speaker Boehner talked about his...
Texas Public Schools Teaching Kids That Jews Practice ‘Flawed Religion’ and that Blacks Are ‘Descended from Ham’
A religious studies professor found instances of students learning a literal interpretation of the Bible. A report put out by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund reveals that in some Texas public schools, classes on the Bible's impact on history are being taught...
I can’t breathe
Thousands of people marched through the streets from New York City to San Francisco for a second straight night following the grand jury decision not to indict a...
Voter Suppression Tactics – Jim Crow Returns
Based on the Crosscheck lists, officials have begun the process of removing names from the rolls — beginning with 41,637 in Virginia alone. Yet the criteria used for matching these double voters are disturbingly inadequate.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuF6WzavMI4...
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What if the outcome of the 2016 election has already been decided?
After losing the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 Presidential elections, Republicans know they can't win in a fair election - so their latest plan is to steal the Presidency by rigging the Electoral College around their gerrymandered Congressional districts. For all...
An inescapable network of mutuality
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and...
Becoming a White Ally to Black People in the Aftermath of the Michael Brown Murder
"A lot of white people aren't speaking out publicly against the killing of Michael Brown because they don’t see a space for themselves to engage meaningfully in the conversation so that they can move to action against racism. It’s not so much that they have nothing to...
