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I’ll Be Putting Dreams In Your Eyes
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Student Faces Six Months In Prison…For Throwing Glitter At Mitt Romney
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From The Chicago Tribune: A Colorado student faced misdemeanor charges on Wednesday for flinging glitter toward Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney in an increasingly frequent protest act some commentators say should be subject to prosecution.
The practice of “glitter bombing” has mainly been the domain of gay rights activists targeting Republican politicians and other public figures who oppose same-sex marriage.
But University of Colorado Boulder student Peter Smith, 20, told Reuters he threw glitter at Romney after the candidate’s speech in Colorado on Tuesday to protest against his “general political philosophy,” and not only his stance on gay marriage.
ACNN video of the incident shows Romney shaking hands with supporters in an auditorium when the glitter is thrown at him and Secret Service agents usher him away.
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Mitt Romney’s Own Solyndra Problem
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The Article: Mitt’s Solyndra? He handed out renewable energy subsidies, too by Darren Samuelsohn on Politico.
The Text: Republicans are pounding Barack Obama on Solyndra, but it may be a complicated argument for their front-runner to maintain: While Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts also picked some winners and losers with energy subsidies.
And like Obama, some of the companies Romney’s state invested in came out on the losing end.
The scale is dramatically different: While the Obama administration dumped $535 million alone into Solyndra — the California solar panel company that subsequently filed for bankruptcy protection — the energy loans, grants and other financial help Romney distributed during four years as governor add up to just a fraction of that amount.
But Democrats — and even some Republicans — say the core issue is the same: If the federal government shouldn’t be betting on one company rather than the other, then neither should the state of Massachusetts.
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The Romney family lines up for a campaign photograph and ends up spelling out a rather Freudian message.
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Why Wall Street Will Never Understand OWS
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Wall Street doesn’t understand Occupy Wall Street’s message because it doesn’t want to.
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Why The Susan G. Komen Backlash Worked
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The Article: Damage Control: Why the Backlash Against the Komen Foundation Succeeded by Nona Willis Aronowitz in Good News.
The Text: On Tuesday, the anti-breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen For The Cure announced it was pulling funds that it had previously provided Planned Parenthood for breast exams. And today, after a hailstorm of protest on Twitter, Facebook, and Susan G. Komen’s message boards, the charity announced that it would be restoring Planned Parenthood’s grants.
Folks across the Internet are attributing this victory to, well, the Internet. Yay, social media! But it’s worth asking why this particular attack on women’s health prompted such a deafening outcry. After all, just one year ago the House of Representatives voted to defund Planned Parenthood outright. Conservative legislators rail against the HPV vaccine, which also prevents women from getting life-threatening cancer. Neither case prompted a fraction of the ire. What exactly got us so riled up this time?
It’s partly about the politics of breast cancer itself, or lack thereof. Breast cancer is one of the few nonpartisan women’s health issues. For those of us irritated by Komen’s pinkwashing or the foundation’s petty lawsuits against smaller charities, this may have also been an opportunity to vent our disgust. Mainly, though, the difference lies in the money: We expect to have a say in where our donations go.
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