GOP A-hole charged with domestic violence

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Former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, Todd Kincannon arrested for criminal domestic violence. You might remember his thoughts on ebola. (He wanted ebola victims executed.) Or his thoughts on transgender people. (He thought they should be put in “camps.”) Or his strangely racist and homophobic and drunken tweets during the superbowl. (WARNING: a lot of triggers) Something is very wrong and angry and mean deep down inside of Mr. Kincannon.

Officer Is Charged With Murder

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Something — it is not clear whether it is the stun gun — is either tossed or knocked to the ground behind the two men, and Officer Slager draws his gun, the video shows. When the officer fires, Mr. Scott appears to be 15 to 20 feet away and fleeing. He falls after the last of eight shots.
The officer then runs back toward where the initial scuffle occurred and picks something up off the ground. Moments later, he drops an object near Mr.

Tom Cotton : He’d prefer war.

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Tom Cotton will try to block Iran deal at any cost. He’d prefer war..

what does Cotton want? Not war, he insisted. But military action that is not war … that he’d be good with. Calling it war is a false choice, according to Cotton, but bombing Iran could be in a separate category.

FEC to Investigate Scott Walker!

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Created By Daily Kos
A watchdog group has charged that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, is using his 527 political organization, Our American Revival, “as his exploratory committee [for his presidential run], and in doing so is raising and spending funds that are beyond the contribution limits and source restrictions of the Federal Election Campaign Act.”
The complaint references press reports saying Walker’s group received two donations of $25,000 and $100,000, while the individual contribution limit to an exploratory committee is only $2,700.
If Walker has violated these rules, it shows a

Teacher to students: aren’t Christians

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the teacher told her students President Obama is not a Christian and “any parent who supports him is not a Christian.” She also challenged her students to “prove their Christianity.”
via Georgia teacher to students: If your parents voted for President Obama, they aren’t Christians.

Another red state lying to the Supreme Court

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Another red state caught lying to the Supreme Court about health insurance exchanges.
The Supreme Court might have already held its vote on King v. Burwell, the case challenging federal tax credits to people buying Obamacare health insurance on the federal exchange because they live in states which did not create their own exchanges. The challengers posit that Congress intended it this way—that they wrote the law to explicitly exclude these millions of people from subsidies as incentive to states to create their own exchanges.

Abortion Bans Are Putting Women Behind Bars

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El Salvador often makes international headlines for its total abortion ban, which is among the harshest in the world. The conservative country is aggressive in its prosecution of women. In 2013, the authorities charged 16 women and girls with the crime of abortion, which can carry a sentence of eight years in prison.

Lawmaker Discloses She Was Raped

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I dare any one of you to judge me,” she added. “I dare you to walk in my shoes.”
Fedor’s disclosure is just the latest personal admission from a female lawmaker who has determined she cannot remain silent about her own experience while her colleagues debate issues of reproductive rights on the floor.
Earlier this month, Arizona State Rep. Victoria Steele (D) made a similar speech during a legislative debate over a measure that would make it harder for women to get insurance coverage for abortion services.
“This is health care.