Thursday, May 31, 2012
Sarah's Scandals: Does Anyone With At Least Half of a Brain In Their...
Sarah's Scandals: Does Anyone With At Least Half of a Brain In Their...: My granddaughter is nearly two months older than Tripp and she is big for her age but nowhere near Tripp’s size. I will never be convinc...
Sarah's Scandals: Does Anyone With At Least Half of a Brain In Their...
Sarah's Scandals: Does Anyone With At Least Half of a Brain In Their...: My granddaughter is nearly two months older than Tripp and she is big for her age but nowhere near Tripp’s size. I will never be convinc...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Leading Climbing Outfit Cancels 2012 Everest Trip, Blaming Ice Dangers Due To Warmth
Leading Climbing Outfit Cancels 2012 Everest Trip, Blaming Ice Dangers Due To Warmth: pMount Everest has become a microcosm for the rest of the planet. Once an isolated place for adventurers, the mountain is now extremely crowded, polluted, and facing dramatic changes as global temperatures rise. As commercial climbing outfits have blossomed over the last two decades, more and more climbers are flocking to Everest. The overcrowding problem [...]/p
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The Immoral Minority: The Hug.
The Immoral Minority: The Hug.: Barack and Michelle Obama circa 1992. Every picture tells a story. What tale does this one tell?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Immoral Minority: Mitt Romney connects with the kids. And by "connec...
The Immoral Minority: Mitt Romney connects with the kids. And by "connec...: Here's Mittens showing he's TOTALLY down with the kids today by hanging with some students at the Universal Bluford Charter School, Philadel...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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The Immoral Minority: Republicans may be purposefully sabotaging economi...
The Immoral Minority: Republicans may be purposefully sabotaging economi...: Threat Level: Orange. Courtesy of the AP : Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Bara...
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Planned Parenthood Claims Victory After Helping To Oust NC Legislator Who Voted For Anti-Abortion Bill
Planned Parenthood Claims Victory After Helping To Oust NC Legislator Who Voted For Anti-Abortion Bill: pPlanned Parenthood helped knock a 28-year incumbent out of the North Carolina General Assembly after the conservative Democrat sided with Republicans to vote in favor of a controversial anti-abortion bill last year. State Rep. Jim Crawford (D) joined four other Democrats who helped Republicans override Gov. Bev Perdue’s (D) veto to pass legislation that requires [...]/p
Study: Children With Private Insurance More Likely To Receive Treatment In ERs
Study: Children With Private Insurance More Likely To Receive Treatment In ERs: pA study published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Pediatrics found that children who had public insurance, like Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or no insurance at all, did not receive the same level of treatment in emergency rooms as children with private insurance. The study found that those [...]/p
Study Debunks Conservative Claim That Tort Reform Attracts More Doctors
Study Debunks Conservative Claim That Tort Reform Attracts More Doctors: pEven before President Obama took office, the Affordable Care Act’s opponents touted tort reform as a central prong of their health care policy. Texas Gov. Rick Perry even claims that Texas added 23,000 new doctors thanks to a tort reform law he signed in 2003. A new academic study shows that the data simply does [...]/p
Morning CheckUp: May 11, 2012
Morning CheckUp: May 11, 2012: pNARAL president to step down: “At the end of this year, Nancy Keenan will step down from her post as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country’s oldest abortion-rights advocacy group. The 60-year-old Keenan said she is leaving out of concern for the future of the pro-choice movement — and thinks she could be holding [...]/p
Catholic Bishops Engage In Witch-Hunt Against Girl Scouts
Catholic Bishops Engage In Witch-Hunt Against Girl Scouts: pThe Girl Scouts of USA have withstood an arrant assualt from conservative legislators this year, having been both characterized as a “radicalized organization” that supports abortions and the homosexual agenda, and accused of partnering with the recently oft-beleaguered Planned Parenthood by GOP lawmakers. Now, the Scouts are being attacked by the U.S. Conference of Catholic [...]/p
Congressman: Christie Vetoed New Jersey Health Exchange As A ‘Message’ To Mitt Romney
Congressman: Christie Vetoed New Jersey Health Exchange As A ‘Message’ To Mitt Romney: pGov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a bill yesterday that would have created New Jersey’s insurance exchange program and extended health insurance to 1.3 million New Jersey residents. The governor insisted that his veto was because of the uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act, which requires states to set up the programs, despite the preliminary steps [...]/p
Insurers Will Pay $1.3 Billion In Rebates To 16 Million Consumers Because Of Obamacare
Insurers Will Pay $1.3 Billion In Rebates To 16 Million Consumers Because Of Obamacare: pThanks to a provision of the Affordable Care Act, 16 million consumers and businesses are expected to receive about $1.3 billion in rebates from health insurance companies, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The medical loss ratio rule requires insurers to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of premiums on patient care; if not, [...]/p
Romney Spokesman Gleefully Outed A Trans Woman, Ending Her Career
Romney Spokesman Gleefully Outed A Trans Woman, Ending Her Career: pWith all the talk over Mitt Romney’s bullying of a presumed gay classmate, some have questioned whether it’s fair to judge someone on their actions in high school. But everyone agrees that anything from a recent political career is fair game. So it’s telling that one doesn’t have to reach that far back to find [...]/p
Kansas Senate Stops Anti-Abortion Bill That Would Have Required Doctors To Give False Information
Kansas Senate Stops Anti-Abortion Bill That Would Have Required Doctors To Give False Information: pKansas Senate President Steve Morris (R) effectively killed an anti-abortion bill by sending it back to a Senate committee that is unlikely to bring it up for a vote before the legislative session ends today. “It is prudent for the Senate to have more time to consider the proposal,” he said. In a last-ditch effort, [...]/p
Obamacare: A Mother’s Day Gift For All Moms Throughout The U.S.
Obamacare: A Mother’s Day Gift For All Moms Throughout The U.S.: pOur guest blogger is Jessica Arons, director of the women’s health and rights program at the Center for American Progress. Cross-posted from RH Reality Check. People always say good health is the greatest gift, so let’s make health a priority this Mother’s Day. Now that I am a mother myself, I am even more appreciative [...]/p
Top Five Reasons Why Bank Of America Is Being Occupied
Top Five Reasons Why Bank Of America Is Being Occupied: pNorth Carolina is in the news for its new ban on marriage equality, but there’s something else happening in the Tarheel state today: The Bank of America shareholders meeting is being occupied. In the recession’s fallout, Bank of America has been a primary target, and the demonstrations at its shareholder meeting are just another in [...]/p
CHARTS: Economic Mobility Is Stronger In Union States
CHARTS: Economic Mobility Is Stronger In Union States: pThe ability of American workers to be upwardly mobile in the economy depends heavily on where they live, according to a state-by-state analysis from Pew Charitable Trusts. The study, the first of its kind, found that workers in a group of states largely clustered in the Northeast and Midwest are more likely to achieve upward [...]/p
5 mindblowing facts about student debt.
5 mindblowing facts about student debt.: pFrom today’s New York Times: 1. The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today. 2. There is now more than $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt in the United States. 3. Over the last 10 years, tuition and [...]/p
Saturday, May 12, 2012
‘Hug The Monster’: Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Downplaying the Climate Threat
‘Hug The Monster’: Why So Many Climate Scientists Have Stopped Downplaying the Climate Threat: pJournalist Bill Blakemore has a great piece on ABC’s website: ‘Hug the Monster’ for Realistic Hope in Global Warming (or How to Transform Your Fearful Inner Climate). He offers advice to journalists in covering climate change — and advice to the rest of us in a world captured by denial. The piece helps dispel the [...]/p
Saudi Arabia Unveils $100 Billion Plan To Make Solar ‘A Driver For Domestic Energy For Years To Come’
Saudi Arabia Unveils $100 Billion Plan To Make Solar ‘A Driver For Domestic Energy For Years To Come’: pEven the world’s largest producer of oil understands the value of developing renewable energy. A few months after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister called global warming “among humanity’s most pressing concerns,” the country is rolling out an ambitious plan to source 41,000 megawatts of solar projects over the next two decades — scaling up a domestic [...]/p
Detailed Arctic Sea Ice Analysis With Great Charts
Detailed Arctic Sea Ice Analysis With Great Charts: pby Neven Acropolis via Arctic Sea Ice blog I’m starting this blog post off with a conclusion that was reached a while back already: Sea ice on the Atlantic side of the Arctic looks vulnerable, sea ice on the Pacific side should be thicker. Right, with that out of the way we can now look at [...]/p
Friday, May 11, 2012
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The Immoral Minority: What do Alaska Republicans, Ron Paul supporters, a...
The Immoral Minority: What do Alaska Republicans, Ron Paul supporters, a...: Lately the political world of Alaska has been abuzz about the overthrow of the old GOP machine in favor of the Ron Paul Republican machine. ...
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