A small-town judge in Alabama is giving non-violent offenders a choice at sentencing: go to jail or go to church.

Under a program dubbed “Operation Restore Our Community,” the city judge in Bay Minette lets misdemeanor offenders serve time and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year, according to WKRG.com. read more here

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Enough is enough, how much are we going to burden our children trying to create jobs.  Let capitalism do its thing.  LEAD or GET Out of the Way.  Its like the White House is stuck in a payday loan cycle.   Well here is a tip, if you want to get out of the payday loan cycle, you have got to stop borrowing.  But instead of borrowing from a payday loan company we are borrowing from our future generations.  Anyway here is a link to the story.

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What I say now, I say as a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members. So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out.

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DEVELOPING: Several people have reportedly been shot at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev.

The Nevada Appeal reports that at least eight people were shot by a suspect carrying a semi-automatic weapon just before 9:00 a.m. local time.

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