Cops Taser Pregnant Mom at Baptism Party | 5 Dangerous Health Fads | Ugly Racism from the Right-Wing

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The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair. Read more »   Do Hate Crime Laws Do Any Good? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet There's no indication that getting hate crimes on the books actually prevents them. Read more »   Right-Wingers Are Stirring Up Xenophobia to Swiftboat Health Reform By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Misleading people is really the only option for those bent on killing the reform movement. Read more »   5 Dangerous and Fraudulent Health Fads You Should Avoid By Greg A. Miller, The Faster Times From colon flushing to using magnets to heal joint pains, there are a lot of counterproductive and potentially damaging health therapies out there. Read more »   Pregnant Mother Tasered at Baptism Party (Video) By David Edwards, John Byrne, Raw Story A noise complaint to police results in another senseless act of brutality. Read more »   Condemn CNN for Its Lou Dobbs "Birther" Fiasco By Byard Duncan, AlterNet By continuing to sanction Dobbs' thinly veiled racism, the network is jeopardizing its status as America's "most trusted" news source. Read more »   How I Reconciled My Diet With My Feminism By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog How can you be a fat-positive feminist who's trying to losing weight? Read more »   Could the Global Meltdown Spark a Great Revolution? By Ben Protess, Christian Science Monitor A look at mass protests during the past 500 years reveals surprising clues. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Olbermann Rips into the Worst Sellouts on Health Care in Congress By Jan Frel, MSNBC Targets Blue Dog Dems, Sen. John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. Read more »   Are 'Birthers' and Anti-Choicers One and the Same? By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check There's a great deal of overlap between anti-choice nuts and birther conspiracy theorists. Read more »   Nationally Prominent Mega-Pastor Claims Hitler Was a "Half-Breed Jew" By Bruce Wilson, Talk To Action Effort to launder Pastor John Hagee's reputation founders on a sea of disturbing facts. Read more »

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