Supreme Court’s abomination: How McCutcheon decision will destroy American politics. “Money talks,” Elvis Costello once observed, “and it’s persuasive.” The belief that this is especially true in the world of politics led to the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act. Bible barons: How the GOP uses religion to keep voters captive to corporate ideology. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
MAP: US GDP Concentration. Obama’s Plan to Use Executive Action Triggers Criticism. Republican lawmakers said President Barack Obama risks antagonizing an already polarized Congress by threatening to use executive authority to make good on the policy agenda he will outline in his State of the Union address.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Obama is wrong to think he can bypass lawmakers if they don’t make legislative progress this year. “Ronald Reagan didn’t think that and Bill Clinton didn’t think that,” McConnell said yesterday on Fox’s “Fox News Sunday” program. “Frequently, times of divided government are quite good times in terms of achieving things for the American people.” Related: McConnell said Obama erred since the 2010 elections that brought Republicans to power in the House by deciding to have “hung out on the left and tried to get what he wants through the bureaucracy, as opposed to moving to the political center.”
Downtown Dallas Gets a Fashionable Makeover. DALLAS, United States — It’s no secret that, along with the rodeo, lavish homes and large automobiles, the well-heeled denizens of Dallas, Texas, love fashion.
In 2011, the Dallas Museum of Art was one of four North American cities to host “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier,” while just last spring avant-garde Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck staged a menswear exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. “The Big D,” as it’s called, has also become an important stop on the designer trunk show circuit. This year alone, Mary Katrantzou, Viktor & Rolf, Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa and Carolina Herrera have visited the city to connect with local consumers. The ninth-biggest city in the United States may not have the global cachet of a city like New York, but it certainly has consumer buying power, thanks to oil fortunes, a thriving investment management industry and the sheer number of blue-chip American corporations, from AT&T to Texas Instruments, that are headquartered in the city.
Obama, Jackie Robinson and Black History Month. Every February in both Canada and the United States, we celebrate Black History Month.
Originally a one-week affair in the second week of February to celebrate the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, it is now a month-long series of festivities and activities to commemorate the contribution of African Americans and Black Canadians to North American society. This year, the celebrations coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. While serious issues and problems affecting African American communities remain, Barack Obama has just been reelected for a second term as president of the United States—not a small accomplishment. Already, some historians are questioning whether the progress of African Americans remains fundamentally cosmetic with Obama in the White House.
Cory Booker And The Silicon Valley Makeover Of The Democratic Party. Newark Mayor Cory Booker cruised to victory in New Jersey’s special election tonight.
As a long-term presidential hopeful, he’ll instantly become one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful voices. Columbia Journalism Review. 11 Reasons Why A Government Shutdown Is Terrible For You. How Bloomberg Played Up His Jewish Heritage In Past Campaigns. 14 Things Americans Think About The Bible In 2013. Half Of The United States Lives In These Counties. Antiwar Left Stays Quiet On Syria. Richard Hétu, Collaboration spéciale. Dante tient la vedette de la première publicité télévisée de son père Bill, un des candidats démocrates à la succession de Michael Bloomberg à la mairie de New York.
Pendant 30 secondes, il s'adresse à la caméra en évoquant les promesses progressistes de son paternel, dont celle de mettre fin au «stop-and-frisk», pratique policière consistant à arrêter et fouiller un individu dans la rue sur la base du soupçon. Cette méthode «cible injustement les personnes de couleur», dit Dante, un jeune métis issu d'un père italo-américain et d'une mère afro-américaine, dans la pub lancée le 8 août.
Gawker. Republicans have no clue how businesses work. The Republican Party has alienated many groups with its antics: women, blacks, Latinos, poor people, pensioners and young people, to name a few.
However, it’s often agreed that they work for two groups: really rich people and entrepreneurs. These groups, they say, drive the economy, and bring the middle class along for the ride. Republicans claim to be the party of entrepreneurship: By cutting taxes, red tape and regulations, they make it easier for small businesses to get started. Why Won't Obama Pay His Interns. George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty. Exclusive: Confidential Administration Document Details Plan To Sell Obamacare Through Social Media. Libertarian Republicans Not Ready To Dub Edward Snowden A Hero. With NSA Source's Flight To Hong Kong, Obama Has No Good Choices. White pride in my classroom. Everything We Know About The Guy Who Leaked Top-Secret Government Surveillance Info. The Plan To Take Down Cory Booker. These Two Senators Tried to Warn Us About the NSA's Snooping. For years, Sens.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore., pictured) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have been dying to tell us about the NSA's secret data-gathering methods. Wyden called the phone records gathering program something "I have been concerned about for years" in a Thursday statement, but added that he's still "barred by Senate rules from commenting on some of the details at this time. " Udall told the Denver Post Thursday he "did everything short of leaking classified information. " De l’utilité du scandale en politique. P artisans d’Obama inquiets par les scandales qui planent autour du Président américain, rassurez-vous: le sénateur John McCain a une bonne nouvelle à vous annoncer.
Le business dynamique des armes pour enfants aux États-Unis. Une marque américaine, Crickett, s'est spécialisée dans la vente d'armes pour les enfants.
“This could be a career ender for Michele Bachmann” The Woman In Chris Christie's Shadow. Microsoft a du mal à recruter et souhaite plus de visas. Microsoft a apporté lundi son soutien au projet de réforme de l'immigration aux États-Unis, en rappelant qu'il ne parvenait pas à recruter les milliers d'informaticiens et ingénieurs dont il a besoin dans le pays.
Chris Christie Gets A Taste Of The Tough Politics Of Gun Control. FRC blames “sexual liberalism” for Boston, Newtown. Pivoting off the bombings in Boston and the shootings in Newtown, Conn., the Family Research Council celebrated the failure of gun control in Congress in a statement to supporters, blaming “abortion, family breakdown, sexual liberalism, or religious hostility” for mass murders, not guns. From the release: In the aftermath of horrible tragedies like Newtown, the government desperately wants to do something — even if that something is the wrong thing. » Autour des frères Tsarnaev. Les frères Tamerlan et Dzorhak Tsarnaev, suspects dans les attentats de Boston. Pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur les frères Tsarnaev, je ne saurais trop recommander la lecture des portraits que leur consacrent le New Yorker, le New York Times et le Boston Globe. The Endless Vetting Of Marco Rubio. A Fox News Reporter Could Be Jailed For Protecting Her Sources, And Nobody Seems To Care.
Un ex-courtier de Goldman Sachs arrêté pour une fraude de 8 milliards. The Least Surprising Thing About Local Politics Is The Arrests. Pourquoi la recherche sur les armes est interdite aux USA. Alors que la tuerie de Newton qui a provoqué la mort de 20 enfants est encore dans les mémoires et que le président Obama tente de faire passer au Congrès un début de réforme sur le contrôle des armes à feu, la revue scientifique Nature dénonce un problème méconnu: la recherche fédérale américaine n'a pas le droit de mener des études sur le sujet.
Cette interdiction étrange remonte à 1996, quand le lobbying de la puissante NRA (National Rifle Association) a réussi à faire inscrire dans la loi de financement des CDC (Center for disease control and prevention), la principale agence fédérale de protection de la santé publique, qu'aucun budget ne devait être consacré «à la promotion ou la défense du contrôle des armes à feu». Il faut dire que les années précédentes, un modeste programme de recherche épidémiologique des CDC avait fait des découvertes très gênantes pour le lobby «pro-gun». Aucune étude de grande amplitude depuis 17 ans. When Business Should Stay Out Of Politics. Michele Bachmann's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week. Obama Golfed With Oil Men As Climate Protesters Descended On White House.
WASHINGTON -- On the same weekend that 40,000 people gathered on the Mall in Washington to protest construction of the Keystone Pipeline -- to its critics, a monument to carbon-based folly -- President Obama was golfing in Florida with a pair of Texans who are key oil, gas and pipeline players. Obama has not shied away from supporting domestic drilling, especially for relatively clean natural gas, but in his most recent State of the Union speech he stressed the urgency of addressing climate change by weaning the country and the world from dependence on carbon-based fuels. Compassionate Conservatism Is Back.