Leonardo Blair

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  Dec 11, 2014

  Rick Santorum to Run for President Again in 2016; Says He's the 'Underdog' and 'America Loves Underdogs'

  Adding to the growing number of hats already floating in the sea of potential Republican presidential candidates for 2016, former Pennsylvania senator and runner-up in the 2012 GOP presidential primary Rick Santorum has announced that he's jumping into the race for the White House again and this time he sounds prepared for a dogfight.

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  Dec 10, 2014

  Atheists Push to Remove Language From Constitutions in Maryland and 6 Other States That Ban Them From Holding Public Office

  Although these bans aren't enforceable under federal law, a coalition of atheists are now lobbying to remove language from constitutions in Maryland and six other states that prevent people who do not believe in God from holding public office.

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  Dec 10, 2014

  'Nae Nae The Hell Out', Says Baltimore Pastor Westley West Invoking Popular Hip-Hop Dance in Church

  An unorthodox decision by a Baltimore, Maryland Pastor to invoke a popular hip-hop dance during a recent sermon on righteousness by instructing his congregation to "Nae Nae the hell out" has made his message viral and sparked a debate about whether he went too far to make his point.

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  Dec 9, 2014

  Police Officer Catches Woman Shoplifting Eggs to Feed Her Family and Buys Them for Her Instead of Making an Arrest

  In stark departure from the police brutality being highlighted in the national media, a Tarrant, Alabama, police officer is now the toast of the Internet after he decided to pay for the eggs he caught a desperate mother shoplifting to feed her children instead of arresting her on Saturday.

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  Dec 9, 2014

  Republican Jase Bolger Gets 'Vile and Vulgar' Shots From Left After Michigan House Passes Religious Freedom Bill, Kills LGBT Proposal

  Republican Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, Jase Bolger says he has been getting "vile and vulgar" shots from the "Left" since a bill aimed at protecting the rights of people with sincerely held religious beliefs was passed by the state House after a partisan vote last Thursday while another bill meant to expand civil rights protections for the LGBT community in the state was killed a day earlier.

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  Dec 9, 2014

  The Second Eric Garner Video Some Say Is More Disturbing Than The First; 'He Was Treated Like a Piece of Meat'

  A second video showing the immediate aftermath of the choking of Staten Island, New York father of six, Eric Garner, by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, shortly before he was pronounced dead over the summer, has been drawing renewed interest in the wake of last week's grand jury decision to not criminally indict the officer for Garner's death.

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  Dec 8, 2014

  Gamers Push to Ban Bible After Target, Kmart Pull 'Grand Theft Auto V' for 'Sickening' Violence Against Women

  More than 50,000 gamers from around the world have signed a change.org petition seeking to ban the Bible after the Australian arm of retail giants Target and Kmart pulled Rockstar's "Grand Theft Auto V" from their shelves earlier this month when customers complained about the "sickening" level of violence against women in the game. The petition parodies another change.org petition launched by three survivors of sexual violence. "It's a book that encourages readers to murder women for enterta

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  Dec 7, 2014

  Christian Rapper Lecrae Says He Harassed People With Pellet Gun as 13-Y-O But Cops Spared His Life, Directed Him to Bible

  Christian rapper Lecrae Moore, popularly known as Lecrae, suggested Thursday that the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann for playing around with a pellet gun on Nov. 22 was a "foolish" decision.

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  Dec 5, 2014

  White Ex Police Chief Indicted for Murder of Unarmed Black Man in South Carolina; Lawyer Calls It 'Completely Wrong'

  The small town of Eutawville, South Carolina, got a decision that many residents in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, sought when a grand jury there announced the criminal indictment of the town's white former police chief for the murder of an unarmed black man.

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  Dec 5, 2014

  'Jesus Would Be Right Here,' Declares Seminary VP in NYC's Massive Protest Over Eric Garner's Death

  Thousands of New Yorkers moved by the tragic chokehold death of 43-year-old Staten Island father of six, Eric Garner, at the hands of NYPD police officer Daniel Pantaleo, and the failure of a grand jury to bring criminal charges against him, flocked to the streets for the second night in a row Thursday to call for change in a justice system they believe is rife with racial bias.