Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Immoral Minority: I think it is once again time to remind people of ...
The Immoral Minority: I think it is once again time to remind people of ...: I have seen a couple of recent arguments made for the importance of keeping religion in the government and schools because "religion ...
The Immoral Minority: So apparently Sarah Palin was drunk tweeting last ...
The Immoral Minority: So apparently Sarah Palin was drunk tweeting last ...: More asinine Winning the Future(WTF) bs tactics from DC: Dem says sequester may cost 170 million jobs.Hey skookums media, check on that, eh...
South Dakota Poised To Extend What’s Already The Longest Abortion Waiting Period In The Country
South Dakota Poised To Extend What’s Already The Longest Abortion Waiting Period In The Country: pSouth Dakota already has the longest abortion waiting period in the country, forcing women to wait 72 hours before being able to access the legal medical procedure. But the Republicans in the state want to lengthen it even further — both chambers of the legislature have approved a measure to exclude weekends and holidays from [...]/p
CDC Warns Medical Professionals Must Prepare To Combat Rare, Potentially Deadly Superbug
CDC Warns Medical Professionals Must Prepare To Combat Rare, Potentially Deadly Superbug: pHealth care settings like hospitals and nursing homes need to make preparations to prevent the spread of a rare “superbug,” the CDC is warning. There’s recently been a sharp jump in the number of reports of the potentially deadly bacteria, which is resistant to all last-resort antibiotic treatments — and the CDC is prompting health [...]/p
No, Obamacare Won’t Actually Force Employers To Drop Health Coverage For Their Workers
No, Obamacare Won’t Actually Force Employers To Drop Health Coverage For Their Workers: pFrom the minute that President Obama signed his landmark health reform bill into law, conservative critics have been issuing dire warnings about how expensive Obamacare will make employer-sponsored health coverage, asserting it would be cheaper for companies to drop coverage for their workers — and pay a $2,000-per-employee fine — rather than comply with Obamacare’s [...]/p
Bucking Responsibility: GOP’s History Of Demanding Obama Identify The Spending Cuts They’d Support
Bucking Responsibility: GOP’s History Of Demanding Obama Identify The Spending Cuts They’d Support: pSenate Republicans unveiled their plan to avert sequestration this week, and though they are still demanding that the looming budget reductions be offset totally by a different set of budget cuts, they are refusing to say what new budget cuts they prefer. Instead, they want to give President Obama the authority to choose which programs [...]/p
Wall Street’s Bonus Pool Has Quintupled Since 1985
Wall Street’s Bonus Pool Has Quintupled Since 1985: p2012 was the second most profitable year in Wall Street’s history, with banks making north of $140 billion. Wall Street’s bonus pool, while not yet back to the heights it achieved before the financial crisis, is growing again, and the average cash bonus hit $121,900. This is part and parcel of a longer trend on [...]/p
Trio Of Democrats Introduce Legislation To Tax Financial Transactions
Trio Of Democrats Introduce Legislation To Tax Financial Transactions: pA trio of Democratic lawmakers today introduced legislation to institute a small tax on financial transactions, a proposal that would reduce volatility in financial markets and raise substantial revenue for the federal government. Under the plan from Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), financial trades would be subject [...]/p
‘House of Cards,’ ‘Said To LadyJournos,’ And The Sexual Harassment Of Female Reporters
‘House of Cards,’ ‘Said To LadyJournos,’ And The Sexual Harassment Of Female Reporters: pIn The New Republic, Marin Cogan dismantles a central assumption of Netflix’s House of Cards, the idea that all female reporters in Washington are constantly sleeping with sources for stories. The show got Washington Herald-turned-Slugline reporter Zoe Barnes’ arc wrong, she argues, not because no reporter ever succumbs to the personal charms of a staffer [...]/p
‘How To Survive A Plague’ May Become An ABC Miniseries
‘How To Survive A Plague’ May Become An ABC Miniseries: pSometimes, I get incredibly depressed about what it’s actually possible to do or put on the air in the mainstream entertainment environment. Then, something like this happens: ABC Studios has acquired the rights to the Oscar-nominated documentary film How to Survive a Plague for a possible ABC miniseries, which would be executive produced by the [...]/p
Vice’s Grotesque Tour Of North Korea With Dennis Rodman
Vice’s Grotesque Tour Of North Korea With Dennis Rodman: pAs has been widely reported, Vice is in North Korea with Dennis Rodman now on what has been billed as some sort of pseudo-diplomatic mission, but which has instead turned into a parade of gross declarations of friendship for the horrifically oppressive regime on Rodman’s part, and disgusting tweets about getting hammered with Kim Jong [...]/p
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