UC Berkeley student removed from Southwest flight after speaking Arabic on plane 

“Tell us everything about martyrdom,” the 26-year-old Iraqi refugee was asked.

UC Berkeley student removed from Southwest flight after speaking Arabic on plane – The Washington Post

This is obscene. The FBI agents and Southwest employees involved should be dismissed for poor judgement and the airline folk should be charged and prosecuted for unlawful detention, hate crimes, and wasting tax-payer resources. I hope this young man sues Southwest, the airport and the FBI into the fucking stone ages.

Thinking They’re ‘Unqualified’ Is A Big Reason More Women Don’t Run For Office 

…the Vermont senator said something that stuck in the craws of many: that Hillary Clinton isn’t qualified to be president.

“She has been saying lately that she thinks I am not quote unquote qualified to be president,” Sanders said. “Let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton: I don’t believe that she is qualified if she is, through her super-PAC, taking tens of millions of dollars in special interests’ funds.”

Thinking They’re ‘Unqualified’ Is A Big Reason More Women Don’t Run For Office | FiveThirtyEight

UC Davis has spent almost $200K trying to erase its shameful pepper spray incident from Internet history | DeadState

New documents have revealed that the University of California, Davis paid out a lot of money to contractors to wipe away the embarrassing incident that involved students and an overzealous, yet casual cop with pepper spay. 

UC Davis has spent almost $200K trying to erase its shameful pepper spray incident from Internet history | DeadState

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Trump and Cruz Are Tearing Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum Apart

On Monday evening, reporters received two vastly different press releases from members of Eagle Forum, the conservative interest group. One, sent by Anne Cori, the group’s newly appointed executive director, alleged that a telephone meeting between Eagle Forum board members held that afternoon “[ensured] that Eagle Forum will continue long into the future as a viable force.” The other, sent by Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum’s 91-year-old founder, called that same meeting “improper,” “unprecedented,” and “invalid.”

Trump and Cruz Are Tearing Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum Apart

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Is Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly About to be Ousted From Her Own Organization?

This afternoon, according to the 91-year-old conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, the board of Eagle Forum—including a shadowy faction of anti-Schlafly board members, known around Eagle Forum as the “Gang of 6”—will hold a secretive telephone meeting. Although she will be on the call, Schlafly can’t say for sure what’s on the agenda for the meeting, but the board is not convening to oust her from the organization she founded 44 years ago. She hopes.

Is Conservative Icon Phyllis Schlafly About to be Ousted From Her Own Organization?

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Factcheck.org: Bill Clinton and the 1994 Crime Bill

[President] Clinton offered his defense of the bill in response to a protester at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on April 7. In addition to Clinton’s inflated assessment of the bill’s effect on crime, we found fault with how both sides portrayed the crime bill in Clinton’s back-and-forth with the protester.
Bill Clinton and the 1994 Crime Bill

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Laura Bush hints that she would like to see Hillary Clinton become president 

“I want our next president – whoever he or she might be – to be somebody who is interested in women in Afghanistan and who will continue US policies… that we continue to do what we’re committed to do as a country,” she said, as reported by The Telegraph.

Laura Bush hints that she would like to see Hillary Clinton become president | US elections | News | The Independent

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