The IRS's Tea Party Scrutiny Was No Random Error. Obamacare Hit Piece Threatening $7,450 Cost Increase Per Family Not Only Wrong But Kind Of Embarrassing. Voters Still Support GOP Healthcare Principles, But Will This Matter In The 2014 Elections? Even though the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordability Care Act, and despite the re-election of President Obama, the battles over ObamaCare have not ended.
Most of its major provisions will not begin to be implemented until 2014. Obamacare Insurance Mandate - Another Circuit Heard From. Peavey Plaza demolition ruling appealed by city. Occupy Homes can't defend Cruz family home from third eviction attempt. For Minneapolis police and Hennepin County deputies, the third time was the charm.
Following two unsuccessful attempts last week to evict Occupy Homes protestors from the foreclosed Cruz family home at 4044 Cedar Ave. S., police were finally able to secure the property following a raid that began around 3:45 p.m. yesterday. Police blocked part of Cedar Ave., got protestors off the property, then closed off the area around the home with crime tape before boarding up the windows. Three protestors were arrested and released by early this morning. Index. Poll: Minnesotans favor path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. A majority of Minnesotans would favor an immigration proposal that creates a path to citizenship for those here illegally, according to a Star Tribune poll.
SEE ALSO: SEIU protests Wells Fargo over political contributions, immigration In total, 64 percent of poll respondents said they would support the reform, which would also entail beefing up border security; 24 percent came out against the plan and 12 percent were not sure. That puts Minnesota roughly in line with the rest of the United States, based on similar polls released this year. In comparison, a recent poll from Quinnipiac University indicated that 56 percent of Americans believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the United States and apply for citizenship.
A Gallup poll from late January found 72 percent favored a path to citizenship. Susan Rice: NSA officials didn’t lie, they ‘inadvertantly made false representations’ National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl and discussed the fallout from the Edward Snowden leaked documents. photo Fibonacci Blue via Flickr “Officials in the intelligence community have actually been untruthful both to the American public in hearings, in Congress, and to the FISA court,” Stahl asked Rice.
Her response has sparked attacks by critics: “There have been cases where they have inadvertently made false representations, and they themselves have discovered it and corrected it.” The March Of Same-Sex Marriage — 2013′s Story Of The Year? “When considering top stories of 2013, who among us even considered Utah would be issuing same-sex marriage licenses at Christmas time?”
The New York Times‘ Jonathan Weisman tweeted on Thursday afternoon. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby’s ruling that Utah’s Amendment 3 banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional was announced on the Friday before Christmas. Gay couples lined up throughout the state to be granted marriage licenses, which were being offered in 22 of the state’s 29 counties by Monday. The state’s appeal to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals was rejected on Christmas Eve and is now headed to the Supreme Court, where Justice Sonia Sotomayor will rule on the case that could resolve the huge question left open by the historic decision in United States v. NSA Had Access To iPhones Camera, Microphone Without Targets Knowing - TechiFreak. According to Der Spiegel, The National Security Agency has been able to hack the iPhone since 2008.
Your Employer Won't Necessarily Tell You About Your Rights. (Photo Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr) The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed a rule back in 2011 that employers must hang 11x17 posters for their employees to read about labor rights.
Pussy Riot Members Freed from Prison. For all of the media attention that has been given to the jailing and imprisonment of members of the band Pussy Riot, their release yesterday (3 months ahead of schedule) went through news outlets largely unreported.
It only showed up on my Twitter feed one time through a news outlet, and none of my friends mentioned it even once. Majority Dislikes Tea Party: Poll. (Attribution: Fibonacci Blue, [CC BY 2.0] via flickr)
Anti-Obamacare Ad Campaign Targets Minnesota, New Hampshire. (Attribution: Fibonacci Blue, [CC BY 2.0] via flickr) The Koch brothers’ Tea Party advocacy group Americans for Prosperity reportedly launched a new anti-Obamacare ad campaign last week.
The ads — which will run on television in Minnesota and New Hampshire — focus on Rep. The Constitution in 2014: the state of same-sex marriage. In this fourth article of a five-part series, Lyle Denniston looks ahead to the constitutional issues that will unfold in the campaign for same-sex marriage. The final article in the series will deal with election law. Earlier articles covered the war on terrorism, abortion, and health care. Photo by Flickr user Fibonacci Blue The campaign to win marriage rights for same-sex couples that began somewhat hesitantly in Hawaii more than twenty years ago burst forth in 2013 into something close to a constitutional revolution.
The year 2014 very likely will take the issue back to the Supreme Court even as efforts continue to advance the campaign at the state level. As 2013 opened, a decade after the first definite victory in Massachusetts, a total of nine states and Washington, D.C., had opened marriage to same-sex couples either by court decision, legislation, or ballot measure. The highest visibility gains came from the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John G. Recent Constitution Daily Stories.
Stanford Study: It Is Trivially Easy to Identify People With Metadata. When the NSA’s bulk collection of every single American’s phone records was disclosed this past summer, defenders of the program argued it was not invasive surveillance because it’s only metadata (who you called, when, and for how long) and doesn’t include the identity of the callers or the content of the conversation.
“There are no names, there’s no content in that database,” Obama said in June. (Photo: fibonacci blue/ cc via flickr)A new study at Stanford University has just ripped that argument to shreds. Stanford computer scientists Jonathon Mayer and Patrick Mutchler found that it is “trivially” easy to determine the identity of callers if all you have is metadata. They write about their research in a blog post:
Criminalizing undocumented migrants has got to stop. Around the world undocumented migrants are criminalized because of the perception that they are 'illegal'. Fibonacci Blue under a Creative Commons Licence The EU and its member states must end criminalization of undocumented migrants to ensure equal access to human rights and to basic services, says the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM). There is a growing trend of criminalizing irregular migrants in Europe, using criminal law, administrative detention or other punitive measures under administrative law, and through policies and practices that perpetuate prejudices.
PICUM has found that most EU member states punish irregular entry and irregular stay. People who assist, support and rescue undocumented migrants for humanitarian reasons may also be prosecuted. Mich. driver office won't change name after gay marriage.