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(Harmony) If we trace back the accepted opinion that Congress is broken, a turning point came right after President Obama's first inauguration when Sen. Mitch McConnell, speaking for all Republicans, it seems, said that his mission was to make Obama a one-term president. The intractable divisions that made the fiscal cliff a nightmare - and a ridiculous spectacle - go back much further, as everyone knows. Senate Hits New Low as Mitch McConnell Filibusters Himself. WASHINGTON, DC, December 6 — With his latest move of unprecedented stupidity and bewildering ineptness, Mitch McConnell officially killed political satire.
Several professional writers and academics confirmed that McConnell's filibustering of himself represented the final step in government incompetence completely undermining the previously-subversive voice of thousands of satirists. Push to step up domestic use of drones. Washington -- Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America's crowded airspace?
And would their widespread use for surveillance result in unconstitutional invasions of privacy? Experts say neither question has been answered satisfactorily. Yet the federal government is rushing to open America's skies to tens of thousands of the drones - pushed to do so by a law championed by manufacturers of the unmanned aircraft. The drone makers have sought congressional help to speed their entry into a domestic market valued in the billions. The 60-member House of Representatives' "drone caucus" - officially, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus - has helped push that agenda. 12 interesting facts you probably didn’t know. Why We Should All Care About the Today's Senate Vote on the FISA Amendments Act, the Warrantless Domestic Spying Bill. Say Goodbye to the Government, Under Either Fiscal Plan. What Businesses Are Doing Wrong on Social Media (And 5 Tips For Success) Flu vaccine attitudes abroad differ from U.S. This year's flu shot is 62% effective, according to the U.S.
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Is that true? Congress: Sequester your own salaries. To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama Petition Background The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy, and they should be stopped.
Sandy Hook shooting: Possible second gunman in custody. Newtown school shooting story already being changed by the media to eliminate eyewitness reports of a second shooter. (NaturalNews) The article which originally appeared here has been removed because it is no longer aligned with the science-based investigative mission of Natural News. In late 2013 / early 2014, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger), editor of Natural News, transitioned from outspoken activist to environmental scientist. He now runs the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, conducting world-class food science research and publishing scientific papers on food contaminants and nutritional analytics.
Texas Republicans are shocked to learn that birth control prevents pregnancy. Well, no one could have seen this one coming.
Last year Texas Republicans took $73 million away from family planning services to protect taxpayers from the evils of Planned Parenthood's non-existent abortion services. And now? The latest Health and Human Services Commission projections being circulated among Texas lawmakers indicate that during the 2014-15 biennium, poor women will deliver an estimated 23,760 more babies than they would have, as a result of their reduced access to state-subsidized birth control. The additional cost to taxpayers is expected to be as much as $273 million — One Democratic representative said of her Republican colleagues, "in retrospect they did not fully grasp the implications.
" Fresh Air Interview: Daniel Handler. Exxon Hates Your Children. The Problem Isn't Growth; the Problem Is Inequality. (Image: Hoarding wealth via Shutterstock)The cumulative inflation-adjusted growth in the US economy since Barack Obama took office has been just 3.2%.
Not per year. Total. Over the past four years the US economy has grown by less than one percent per year. Study: Tea party a long-planned creation of big tobacco, Koch brothers. For many on the left, the idea that there was a spontaneous uprising of American patriots concerned by the out-of-control growth of our government has been bunk from the outset.
We based that on the simple observation that there was an awful lot of awfully big money behind making sure that people went to teabagger rallies and that those rallies got a disproportionate amount of media attention. In a word, it was clearly astroturf. A new academic study confirms what we knew all along, and far more: "Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that spontaneously developed in 2009, the Tea Party has developed over time, in part through decades of work by the tobacco industry and other corporate interests. " The full study is behind a paywall, but Brendan DeMelle, writing at Huffington Post has the details. Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance.