This Is Important, You Should Know About It of the Day: 53-year-old Ai Weiwei -- an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and by all accounts China's best-known artist (previously) -- is missing and his whereabouts are unknown after he was detained by police at Beijing Capital International Airport.
In addition to his sudden disappearance, Ai's
This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day: The first of Rep. Peter King's controversial hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, entitled "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response,"
This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day: Last month, Tea Party members gathered outside an ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America)-sponsored charity event held to raise money for women's shelter and hunger relief, and hurled racist epithets and bewildering ethnocentric remarks at the American-Muslim families entering the Yorba Linda Community Center. Several members of congress even showed up to express their support for the protesters and their message.
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This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day: The Pence Amendment to strip Planned Parenthood of all federal funding -- which Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has been peddling for some time now like it's the most important thing on the docket -- has come around again, but hopefully was shut down for good by a moving speech delivered on the House floor by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA).
