Some gems....

We won't pick on not-so-bright Sarah Palin....for now....at the bottom there's a great article picked up by RSN about stopping the Dirty Tar Sands pipeline....

Matt Taibbi | Sarah Palin's Impressively Incoherent 'Duck Dynasty'

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Palin's inability to grasp the difference between a first-amendment violation and corporate calculation is amazing because she literally just published a book on the subject."
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Ron Wyden: NSA Review Panel Offers 'Substantial, Meaningful Reforms'
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman writes: "Wyden hailed a finding of the review group, deep into its lengthy report, that undermined the NSA's claim that the collection of all US phone records was indispensable for preventing terrorist attacks."
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Congress Approves Reforms to Address Sexual Assault, Rape in Military
Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post
O'Keefe reports: "The changes would be a victory for the estimated tens of thousands of troops who have been sexually abused in recent years."
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Obama Commutes Sentences for 8 in Crack Cocaine Cases
Charlie Savage, The New York Times
Savage reports: "Mr. Obama said that each of the eight men and women had been sentenced under what is now recognized as an 'unfair system.'"
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In North Dakota, Some Women Assume Abortion Is Now Illegal
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "The environment surrounding reproductive rights has become so hostile that many [women] simply assume the procedure has been outlawed."
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Meet the Texas Farmer Challenging the Keystone Pipeline From the Courtroom to the Plains
Anna Simonton, YES! Magazine
Simonton writes: "Crawford hopes that sharing her story with other landowners empowers them to challenge TransCanada's use of eminent domain and to stop the pipeline altogether."
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