“Unhappy with having to pay a restaurant’s auto-gratuity of 18% for parties of eight or more, a pissed-off pastor used his receipt to express his indignation. “I give God 10% — why do you get 18?,” the man wrote above the autograt line before crossing out the pre-printed tip and …

“A Nevada Republican arrested for voter fraud in the 2012 election, after claiming she was trying to test the system’s integrity, pled guilty and accepted a plea deal Thursday, forcing her to pay almost $2,500 and promise to stay out of trouble. Roxanne Rubin, 56, a casino worker on the …

“Violent video games are a bigger problem than guns, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday. “I think video games [are] a bigger problem than guns, because video games affect people,” Alexander said on MSNBC. “But the First Amendment limits what we can do about video games and the Second Amendment …

“Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) has proposed a bill that would cut welfare benefits by 30 percent to families whose children fail to make “satisfactory academic progress” in school. Campfield claims that penalizing families based on their children’s grades is a step toward “breaking the cycle of poverty,” reports …

“The halting testimony of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gravely injured in a mass shooting two years ago, may have provided the most gripping moments of the Senate’s first gun control hearing this session. But the star witness on Capitol Hill on Wednesday was Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s …

It’s a big day for the new BlackBerry, with two phones, a new platform, and a total company name change from RIM to BlackBerry. That’s a lot to take in, but we’re going to try — join David Pierce and Nilay Patel for a special live broadcast as they talk …

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Subscribe for more – http://youtube.com/unboxtherapy This is an unboxing and overview of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone. This device features the brand new BlackBerry 10 operating system (BB10). The Z10 was launched in conjunction with the Q10. The Q10 is a more traditional BlackBerry featuring a qwerty keyboard while maintaining the …

Read the full story here: http://bit.ly/WxPFd5 During today’s Senate judiciary committee hearing on gun violence, Graham asserted that semi-automatic weapons could be a valuable tool in the event that one’s neighborhood were taken over by “marauding gangs” after a natural disaster. Video via C-Span: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310644-1

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