Recent Votes

• KBR trying to modify $3M BINDING arbitration award for rape victum.

  Source: Raw Story

  Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports.

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• Woman awarded nearly $3m in rape claim against Halliburton/KBR | World news | guardian.co.uk

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3m (£1.8m) to settle her claims that she was raped in Iraq by a US state department employee in 2005 while working for a former Halliburton subsidiary.

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• Sarah Palin: Whiner-In-Chief

  Source: Telegraph

  With Palin, what you see is what you get, and what you see in Going Rogue is a woman who is charming, passionate, loyal and patriotic. She is also self-absorbed beyond political norms, prickly, thin-skinned and just plain whiny. This is what stands out for me.

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• Systematically deconstructing right-wing fear mongering surrounding terrorism trials in New York

  I have supported the "Republicans are wetting their pants and surrendering to terrorism" narrative in the last week, mostly because it's true, but also because it's at least somewhat shallowly satisfying to illustrate how people who portray themselves as fearless warriors are oft …

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• Where Did They Go, For I Am Their Leader

  Councilor Ken Lewenza Jr is wrong. During the lead-up to his and Councilor Bill Marra's ward meeting on 10 November, Lewenza is reported as saying he thought,

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