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There is absolutely zero evidence that the legalization of gay marriage negatively affects the institution of heterosexual marriages. In fact, although the rate at which Americans marry has been falling for decades, the drop in the national marriage rate since 2004 has been more than twice as large as the drop in the Massachusetts marriage rate. In contrast, the drop in the marriage rates in several of the states — such as Arkansas, Louisiana and Ohio — that in 2004 amended their constitutions to prohibit same-sex marriages has been several times greater than the national average

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Nevada State Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, a Democrat who represents Nevada’s Senate District 4, is speaking

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The hood made him to be a Crip but he was trying to get out the hood by making music

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Reference to the 1972 classic The Doberman Gang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMupA9_wLcw#t=1m12s

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Reddit live-blogged the feed from the Boston Police Department’s police scanner as the Boston Marathon bombings investigation and subsequent shootings took place on April 19, 2013. This is an important excerpt – the full transcript can be read on Reddit

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This was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the “black hat” suspect – who died in a gunfight with police in the early hours of April 19, 2013

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The 2 suspects:
A male in a white hat

A male in a black hat

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Video of the 2 suspects – please contact the FBI if you know anything!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuBzD8b3lTY

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April 18, 2013 press conference in which the FBI asked for the public’s help in finding the Boston Marathon bombers, using the photographic and video evidence available

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuBzD8b3lTY

And the photos

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Referring to The Dark Knight Rises movie theater shooting in Aurora, CO by James Holmes on July 20, 2012

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