Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Immoral Minority: Tea Party group tries to draft Sarah Palin to run ...
The Immoral Minority: Tea Party group tries to draft Sarah Palin to run ...: Courtesy of US News : "Do the words 'Senator Sarah Palin' excite you?" (Should I answer that?) That's the o...
Monday, April 29, 2013
The Immoral Minority: NBA player becomes first athlete on a major sports...
The Immoral Minority: NBA player becomes first athlete on a major sports...: Courtesy of Sports Illustrated : I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the fir...
The Immoral Minority: Poll numbers plunge for Senators who voted against...
The Immoral Minority: Poll numbers plunge for Senators who voted against...: Courtesy of Public Policy Polling : New PPP polls in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio find serious backlash against the 5 Senators who ...
The Immoral Minority: Poll numbers plunge for Senators who voted against...
The Immoral Minority: Poll numbers plunge for Senators who voted against...: Courtesy of Public Policy Polling : New PPP polls in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio find serious backlash against the 5 Senators who ...
The Immoral Minority: Former Sarah Palin adviser hired by U.S. Conferenc...
The Immoral Minority: Former Sarah Palin adviser hired by U.S. Conferenc...: Courtesy of Patheos : The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomes Kim Daniels on board as spokesperson for the president of the ...
The Immoral Minority: Fox's version of a special needs classroom, The Fi...
The Immoral Minority: Fox's version of a special needs classroom, The Fi...: In case you missed it here is the Daily Show bit that has the time-out corner all in a huff. Let me just say that I have NEVER watched ...
Arizona County Spends Millions To Settle Corruption Allegations Against Infamous Sheriff, Disbarred Gubernatorial Candidate
Arizona County Spends Millions To Settle Corruption Allegations Against Infamous Sheriff, Disbarred Gubernatorial Candidate: pThe county that hosts the self-professed “toughest sheriff in America” settled yet another lawsuit for $1.4 million last week. In sum, Arizona’s Maricopa County has now paid at least $4.2 million to settle nine lawsuits alleging corrupt investigations by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. “Those totals do not include millions of [...]/p
Cancer Clinics: Congress Should Have Restored Our Sequester Cuts Before Addressing Airport Delays
Cancer Clinics: Congress Should Have Restored Our Sequester Cuts Before Addressing Airport Delays: pThis past week, Congress approved a measure to restore funding to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after sequester cuts to the national transportation agency disrupted airline travel across the country — but they haven’t taken similar steps to provide relief for other programs that are struggling as a result of sequestration. Now, employees at cancer [...]/p
Arizona Republican Keeps Pushing To Limit DC Women’s Abortion Access
Arizona Republican Keeps Pushing To Limit DC Women’s Abortion Access: pRepublican Rep. Trent Franks (AZ) has reintroduced a measure to criminalize abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on the junk science that fetuses can feel pain after that point. The Arizona lawmaker has been particularly focused on legislating DC women’s reproductive rights, despite the fact that he does not [...]/p
Swarthmore College Allegedly Underreported Sexual Assaults, Dissuaded Victims From Coming Forward
Swarthmore College Allegedly Underreported Sexual Assaults, Dissuaded Victims From Coming Forward: pA group of Swarthmore students are filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against their Philadelphia-area college, alleging the elite private institution has been mishandling the sexual crimes that occur on campus. The students say that Swarthmore has violated federal law by failing to accurately report sexual assault cases, as well as by [...]/p
Government Threatens To Strip Funding For Nevada Mental Hospital That Dumped The Homeless Onto Buses
Government Threatens To Strip Funding For Nevada Mental Hospital That Dumped The Homeless Onto Buses: pFederal officials have a clear message for Nevada’s Rawson-Neal mental health facility: Stop mistreating patients, or see your federal Medicare dollars disappear. In a curt letter distributed by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that oversees major entitlement spending warned the hospital — which has been accused of unceremoniously dumping [...]/p
How The Right-Wing Media Is Twisting The Facts To Accuse Other Abortion Doctors Of Gosnell’s Crimes
How The Right-Wing Media Is Twisting The Facts To Accuse Other Abortion Doctors Of Gosnell’s Crimes: pThe high-profile murder case of Kermit Gosnell — a Philadelphia-area abortion doctor accused of performing gruesome, illegal late-term abortion procedures for vulnerable women — has ignited a firestorm of conservative coverage, particularly when right-wing outlets recently claimed the media’s pro-choice bias has deterred major outlets from devoting enough attention to Gosnell’s alleged crimes. Abortion opponents [...]/p
In 2012 Election, African American Voters Surpassed White Turnout For The First Time Ever
In 2012 Election, African American Voters Surpassed White Turnout For The First Time Ever: pThough Republican election officials in battleground states sought to dampen voter turn out of traditionally Democratic voters through by instituting identification requirements and limiting early voting hours, a new analysis of census data by the Associated Press shows that African Americans “voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most [...]/p
After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O’Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore
After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O’Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore: pJustice Sandra Day O’Connor, the conservative retired justice who provided the fifth vote to install George W. Bush as president, is now having second thoughts about that decision: Looking back, O’Connor said, she isn’t sure the high court should have taken [Bush v. Gore]. “It took the case and decided it at a time when [...]/p
Cover Of NAACP’s Official Magazine Features Justice Scalia With Confederate Bandanna
Cover Of NAACP’s Official Magazine Features Justice Scalia With Confederate Bandanna: pIn a commentary upon Justice Antonin Scalia’s statement that the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” The NAACP’s official magazine’s cover depicts the conservative justice wrapped in Confederate swag: Scalia’ comment, and the NAACP’s commentary upon it, highlights one of the many pitfalls facing the Republican Party as it attempts to rebrand [...]/p
Court Upholds Law Keeping Hate Church Protestors 300 Feet Away From Funerals
Court Upholds Law Keeping Hate Church Protestors 300 Feet Away From Funerals: pTwo years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a jury verdict against members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, after the jury awarded millions in damages to the family of a deceased solider whose funeral Westboro protested. The Court emphasized, however, that its opinion was “narrow,” and was rooted in the fact that the church [...]/p
Supreme Court Rejects Remedy For Man Who Waited 7 Years Behind Bars Before Trial
Supreme Court Rejects Remedy For Man Who Waited 7 Years Behind Bars Before Trial: pJonathan Boyer spent seven years in a Louisiana jail before he even saw a trial in the case against him. A Louisiana court found that the bulk of this delay was caused by the state’s failure to pay for the lawyer to which Boyer was constitutionally entitled, but it nonetheless concluded that the delay was [...]/p
Econ 101: April 29, 2013
Econ 101: April 29, 2013: pWelcome to ThinkProgress Economy’s morning link roundup. This is what we’re reading. Have you seen any interesting news? Let us know in the comments section. You can also follow ThinkProgress Economy on Twitter. Small banks and credit unions, normally foes, are teaming up to support legislation that would rein in “too big to fail” banks. [...]/p
How Austerity Is Literally Killing People
How Austerity Is Literally Killing People: pAusterity in the United States and Europe isn’t just placing an unnecessary drag on economic growth that has harmed the global economic recovery from the Great Recession. The rapid deficit reduction efforts are also making people less healthy, causing higher rates of suicide, depression, and infectious disease, according to research from Oxford University economist David [...]/p
Two Critics Of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want
Two Critics Of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want: pCongress is forcing the Army to spend nearly half a billion dollars building tanks that Army officials insist they don’t want, with money they say could be better spent elsewhere, according to a new report from the AP. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are the two members of congress at the [...]/p
Long Hours Are Pushing Mothers Out Of Male-Dominated Jobs
Long Hours Are Pushing Mothers Out Of Male-Dominated Jobs: pWhile progress was steadily made to integrate women into traditionally male jobs for many decades, in recent years the rate has slowed considerably. There are many factors that lead men and women to end up in different occupations, but a new study has found that one big reason, particularly when it comes to women with [...]/p
ALEC-Orchestrated Bill To Preempt Paid Sick Leave Passes Florida Senate
ALEC-Orchestrated Bill To Preempt Paid Sick Leave Passes Florida Senate: pThe push for paid sick days in various cities and states has won some crucial victories, the latest of which was in New York City. But “preemption bills,” laws orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that override any efforts to implement paid sick days, are also gaining speed, with the latest passed by [...]/p
The Immoral Minority: A 5000 year time lapse chronicling the expansion o...
The Immoral Minority: A 5000 year time lapse chronicling the expansion o...: I have watched this thing quite a few times now and I am struck how the discovery of the new world put Christianity into hyper drive. It...
The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin's favorite football player, Tim Tebow,...
The Immoral Minority: Sarah Palin's favorite football player, Tim Tebow,...: Courtesy of USA Today : Tim Tebow couldn't get any playing time last season when the New York Jets had three quarterbacks on the ros...
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