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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been ignoring Bruce Jenner. As a child of the ’70s, I ignored him in the cereal aisle, where his Olympic-champion mug couldn’t entice me to pick his terminally bland Wheaties over more healthful Sugar Smacks. I ignored him in the ’80s, during his star-turn in Can’t Stop the Music, a disco-tinged Village People biopic that saw him nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for worst actor. In the ’90s, I don’t recall Jenner at all, as I was rather busy ignoring him.
#372953
The calls for Republicans to fight back against the Caitlyn Jenner sensation.
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In Progressive World, there are at least four stages of legally becoming an adult.On Tuesday, the California Senate voted to raise the age when young people can buy cigarettes, from 18 to 21. The Hawaii Legislature has passed similar legislation. A companion California bill would mandate that e-cigarettes fall under the same restrictions as tobacco smokes.If the bills become law, 18 will make a Californian old enough to vote, to enlist in the military, to sign a contract, to buy a gun, to get a tattoo and to get married — but not old enough to buy a cigarette. Not for three years.It’s also not old enough to drink.I am old enough to remember the mantra, “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.” In 1971, responding to a system that allowed 18-year-olds to enlist in the military without letting them vote for who would run it, states ratified the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
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As Islamic State propagandists set their sights on recruiting Western youths through slickly produced videos, newscasts, blogs and tweets, U.S. cities with large Muslim populations are reaching out to fight the threat in a variety of ways. In Columbus, leaders of the Somali community, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, meet frequently with law enforcement, and a mosque gives youngsters an outlet for their energies.
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After losing her high-stakes gender discrimination lawsuit and telling the world she just wanted to have her story heard, Ellen Pao offered to forgo her right to appeal if her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers paid her $2.7 million, according to court documents filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court. In the filing, Kleiner Perkins said that Pao’s objections to the firm’s legal fees are “particularly nonsensical given her own post-trial demand ... for $2.7 million to cover her fees and costs.” At a time when tensions surrounding the tech industry’s lack of diversity were already boiling, Pao alleged that Kleiner Perkins promoted male partners over equally qualified women, and then retaliated against her for speaking up about it. Pao’s attorneys, however, said in a filing that the settlement offer was made in bad faith because her own legal fees had climbed to $650,000 before the trial started. In Friday’s filing, the venture capital firm said that the $1 million pretrial settlement offer should have been more than enough, since at that point discovery was nearly complete, and it should have been apparent to Pao that there was a “strong likelihood” that she would not win. A footnote in Friday’s filing argues that Pao should not be allowed to introduce evidence of any financial distress now to have the legal fees reduced, since it was not allowed in trial. If Pao moves forward with the appeal, she will leave on the table $972,814.50 in legal fees Kleiner Perkins has offered to waive.
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This one will definitely make you think.
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Even as activists gear up, court rulings have prevented officials from moving forward on a plan to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
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conservativewriter:
“emperorkatuunuxvi:
“gunattheready:
“theheartofapatriot:
“Someone’s reproductive system is none of my business, but it is my financial responsibility.
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Racism is disagreeing with...
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Perry to Hillary: Fix Your Own State Before You Attack The People of Texas
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Senate leaders may consider a stopgap measure to avoid a partial shutdown of state government over the Legislature's impasse on budget and tax issues.
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While other cities across America, including West Coast cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego have been adopting ordinances raising their local minimum wage — climbing toward a $15 per hour minimum wage by 2020 — Irvine is apparently America’s only major city headed in the other direction, actually cutting its minimum wage by more than 20%.
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Republican leaders and the White House see momentum for their shared priority.
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Commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a gag order on firearm-related speech, the National Rifle Association is warning.
In updating regulations governing international arms sales, State is demanding that anyone who puts technical details about arms and ammo on the web first get the OK from the federal government — or face a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in jail.
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According to the NRA, that would include blogs and web forums discussing technical details of common guns and ammunition, the type of info gun owners and ammo reloaders trade all the time.
Gunsmiths, manufacturers, reloaders, and do-it-yourselfers could all find themselves muzzled under the rule and unable to distribute or obtain the information they rely on to conduct these activities, said the NRA in a blog posting.
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Hillary Clinton was up to her old tricks again this week. While dodging reporters and refusing to answer questions pertaining ...
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Growing up through successive revolutions and counter-revolutions gives you a finely honed sense of what is socially approved (particularly when it can change on a dime.) And I got pretty good at s...
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Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation to authorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to give $60 million of the taxpayers' money to anti-gun activists over the next six years, to conduct "research" promoting gun control.
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Aaron and Melissa Klein, former owners of an Oregon bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple and as a result was fined over $130,000, declared in an exclusive interview with the Daily Signal that the case against them needs to be removed from the bureaucratic governmental agency that oversees discrimination complaints because of possible new evidence of bias.
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The vast majority of people who kill and commit acts of violence are men, but it would be wrong to assume that men are hardwired to harm others, says Gary Barker
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Reported by Robert Stitt Shepard Fairey is the man behind the “Hope” poster that became...
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Electricity prices in Europe are high and rising due to green energy policies.
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A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter was fired at and forced to make an emergency landing near the river banks of Laredo, Texas, officials confirmed to Fox News on Saturday.
