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42 Tweets 38 Shares Charlene Dill By CAP Action War Room on April 9, 2014 A 32-year-old woman who could not afford her heart medication is now dead because of Florida's refusal to expand Medicaid. 105 Tweets 471 Shares Recent Tweets Tweets by @thinkprogress Get ThinkProgress Alerts in Your Inbox: Want daily updates on important issues? No Mad Men Pay 21 Tweets 15 Shares. Delegation responds to internet piracy bills. WASHINGTON – As sites across the Internet go dark today in protest of online anti-piracy bills in the U.S.
House and Senate, members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation are clarifying their positions on what’s becoming a controversial issue. The state’s eight House members are mostly coming out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (known as SOPA) with at least six members already telling MPR News that they’re opposed to the measure. DFL Rep. Keith Ellison has gone so far as to join the protesters by blacking out his campaign website in solidarity. Separately, Republican Rep. Republican Rep. Minnesota’s two U.S. senators both favor the Senate version of the bill, known as the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and were listed as original co-sponsors of the legislation when it was introduced last May.
Sen. Rep. Rep. Rep. Sen. Rep. Sen. Rep. Rep. Meet The Top 5 Democratic Targets Of The SOPA/PIPA Protest. Two Republican co-sponsors of PIPA have dropped their support, but here are five Democrats who must be targeted if the protests are to be successful.
The beautiful thing about the Internet is that it represents a vast seemingly endless galaxy of freedom. The problematic thing about the Internet can be the unorganized chaos in which this realm exists in. The organizers of the SOPA/PIPA blackout protest should be congratulated for what they have managed to accomplish in this environment. Already, Republican co-sponsors of PIPA, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. One of the major disappointments for liberals and progressives is that many of the liberal heroes of the Senate have announced their support of this censorship disguised as anti-piracy legislation. Here are five Democratic senators who you can tell to stand with you and not with censorship: 1). SOPA copyright bill draws fire. The Stop Online Piracy Act is intended to target "rogue" Web sites, but critics say it'll knock the stuffing out of legitimate sites as well.
How SOPA would affect you: FAQ An in-depth look at the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, backed by Hollywood and opposed by the largest Web companies and civil liberties groups. (Posted in Privacy Inc. by Declan McCullagh) January 18, 2012 How Republican opposition derailed SOPA and Protect IP SOPA and Protect IP Act have finally splintered a Democrat-Republican alliance in favor of expanding copyright law that's been in place since the 1990s.
Obama wants Hollywood, Silicon Valley to 'come together' on SOPA During a Google+ hangout aired on YouTube, the president stops short of saying he opposes a pair of controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bills. • SOPA support gets UFC president hacked (Posted in Privacy Inc. by Declan McCullagh) January 30, 2012 3:49 p.m. SOPA halted in House Senate vote on PIPA is postponed. Mike's Letter. The song in the new Capital One rock climbing commercial... How to Pay for What We Need - Richard Striner. Article - Winter 2012 Print Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life (Photo by Pen Waggener) By Richard Striner Just after the election of 2008, the Nobel laureate liberal economist Paul Krugman made a prophecy: we will not restore prosperity, he warned in The New York Review of Books, “unless we are willing to think clearly about our problems and to follow those thoughts wherever they lead.”
If you’re skeptical about this assertion, ask Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke: “It’s not tax money. Pelley: “You’ve been printing money?” Bernanke: “Well, effectively.” If the Federal Reserve can create new money, couldn’t Congress do the very same thing? Thomas "Danny" Boston for Democracy Journal: Minority Report: Expanding Opportunity for All. Issue #21, Summer 2011 Thomas "Danny" Boston To read the other essays in the “From the Ground Up: Fostering Entrepreneurship” symposium, click here.
In the new economy, small businesses, rather than Fortune 500 corporations, are the engine of American innovation and job growth. The Great Recession and subsequent jobless recovery have made this clear. Between 1992 and 2010, the economy gained 16.7 million jobs, 33 percent of which came from businesses with less than 50 employees and 32 percent from businesses with 50 to 499 employees. Minority-owned small businesses play a crucial role in this economic picture. But while minority-owned businesses have made tremendous advances over the last decade, they also face serious challenges.
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