A (Short) History Of Violence: The Post-Acquittal George Zimmerman Timeline. Ferguson nametags: Department of Justice mandate not completely effective. Explaining the Common Core State Standards. Low-Wage Workers Confront Scott Walker, Accuse Wisconsin Of Breaking The Law. By Bryce Covert Posted on Share this: "Low-Wage Workers Confront Scott Walker, Accuse Wisconsin Of Breaking The Law" Share: Wisconsin Gov.
CREDIT: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin On Wednesday morning, Wisconsin Jobs Now, Wisconsin Working Families, and a group of low-wage workers in the state submitted 100 complaints to Gov. Secret Recordings Inside The Federal Reserve Prompt Elizabeth Warren To Call For Investigation. By Alan Pyke Posted on Share this: "Secret Recordings Inside The Federal Reserve Prompt Elizabeth Warren To Call For Investigation" Share:
Secret Service fumbled response after gunman hit White House residence in 2011. The gunman parked his black Honda directly south of the White House, in the dark of a November night, in a closed lane of Constitution Avenue.
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, MS, Depression & Bipolar Disorder All Linked to Met... By Marianna Pochelli ND Guest writer for Wake Up World Metal toxicants entering the part of the brain that deals with stress and panic have been linked to disorders dealing with the central nervous system.
Increasing evidence indicates that damage to the locus ceruleus (LC), is present in a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases including demyelinating and psychiatric disorders. There are a growing number of Clinicians and Scientists who are convinced that excitotoxins and heavy metals play a critical role in the development of several neurological disorders, including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine disorders, specific types of obesity, and especially the neurodegenerative diseases; a group of diseases which includes ALS, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and olivopontocerebellar degeneration.
Cheney outraged that Obama mentioned Ferguson in speech. Toward the end of President Obama's speech to the United Nations on Wednesday—a speech that made the case for U.S.
-led military action against ISIS and other "terrorists in Syria and Iraq"—he challenged America's critics to recognize that despite our imperfections, we are engaged in a constant struggle to become more perfect: I realize that America’s critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our own borders. This is true. In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. US elites beginning to realize there's a problem. And here's the important thing, as far as Fukuyama and elites are concerned: ...liberal democracy is almost universally associated with market economies, which tend to produce winners and losers and amplify what James Madison termed the “different and unequal faculties of acquiring property.”
This type of economic inequality is not in itself a bad thing, insofar as it stimulates innovation and growth and occurs under conditions of equal access to the economic system. It becomes highly problematic, however, when the economic winners seek to convert their wealth into unequal political influence.
How the Koch Network Exploited the Veterans Affairs Crisis. Share Captain Pete Hegseth, right, and Captain Flagg Youngblood, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) As the scandal over waiting lists at Veterans Affairs hospitals exploded earlier this year, there was widespread outrage—and justifiably so, as the country learned that more than 100,000 veterans waited over ninety days for care or never received it. An ever-present force in this debate was a group called Concerned Veterans for America. Its leader, Peter Hegseth, frequently appeared on cable news segments about the scandal, and CVA was often mentioned on the floor of the Senate. The Right-Wing's Trashy Response To The Biggest Climate March Ever. By Jeff Spross Posted on Share this: "The Right-Wing’s Trashy Response To The Biggest Climate March Ever" Share: A demonstrator holds a sign at the People’s Climate March in New York City, Sunday, September. 21, 2014.
CREDIT: AP Photo / Jason DeCrow On Sunday, as many as 400,000 people descended on New York City to demand that world leaders finally get serious about global warming. Steve Bisciotti’s Response to Ray Rice Report Puts N.F.L. in Deeper Hole. Photo OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Here’s a message to every and team official who has been involved, even tangentially, in the Ray Rice scandal: Please stop talking.
From now on, refrain from trotting out in front of cameras to say how you have erred. California billionaire Tom Steyer drops $1 million on WA elections. California billionaire Tom Steyer California billionaire Tom Steyer — a climate activist and political ally of Gov.
Jay Inslee — has entered Washington state’s 2014 elections in a big way, sending $1 million here in an expected effort to help Democrats take control of the state Senate. Steyer donated $1 million last week to NextGen Climate Action’s Washington state political branch, according to a Public Disclosure Commission filing Monday. Two days later, NextGen sent $50,000 to the Kennedy Fund, a political committee that backs Democrats in state Senate races. Obama hits at companies moving overseas to avoid taxes. The Obama administration took action Monday to discourage corporations from moving their headquarters abroad to avoid U.S. taxes, announcing new rules designed to make such transactions significantly less profitable.
(Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) The Obama administration took action Monday to discourage corporations from moving their headquarters abroad to avoid U.S. taxes, announcing new rules designed to make such transactions significantly less profitable. The rules, which take effect immediately, will not block the practice, and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew again called on Congress to enact more far-reaching reforms. But in the meantime, he said, federal officials “cannot wait to address this problem,” which threatens to rob the U.S. Treasury of tens of billions of dollars. Rockefellers, Heirs to an Oil Fortune, Will Divest Charity of Fossil Fuels. Photo The announcement, timed to precede Tuesday’s opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City, is part of a broader and accelerating initiative.
In recent years, 180 institutions — including philanthropies, religious organizations, pension funds and local governments — as well as hundreds of wealthy individual investors have pledged to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to invest in cleaner alternatives. The Koch Brothers and Their Daddy: Spending Millions To Wreck the Country That Made Them Rich.
Meet Fred Koch, a founding member of the John Birch Society, and his kids, David and Charles–better known as the Koch Brothers Most John Birch Society scoundrels are buried deep in the recesses of American history, known only to politics junkies, history wonks and me, a Birch kid. There is one exception however, a Birch name that echoes across today’s political landscape: Fred C.
Koch, founding member and National Council member. Before Koch’s sons―David and Charles―became synonymous with 21st century corporate power, Koch built a fortune from an oil drilling techniques he developed. When oil companies in the United States ignored him, Koch looked elsewhere. Tony Perkins: Atheists Working Through AP History Classes To Enable ISIS, Sexting, 'Hip-Hop Gang Banger Music' On his radio program earlier this week, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins declared that the separation of church and state is to blame for the Americans who have left to fight alongside ISIS because “[r]adical secularism that has driven the defining characteristics of our Western culture, our Judeo-Christian heritage, from our schools, our entertainment and even our government has left in its place a void, a vacuum.” In a column for the Christian Post yesterday, Perkins expanded on the claim, adding that the same “atheizers” who are responsible for Americans joining ISIS are also the cause of “hip-hop gang banger music” and the “the appalling phenomenon of teens ‘sexting.’”
He also links ISIS recruitment, hip-hop and sexting to a new AP U.S. Climate Change Is a People’s Shock. How the Koch Brothers and Other Family Capitalists Are Ruining America. The New Abolitionism. Court Orders Kansas Legislature to Spend More on Schools - NYTimes.com. Photo. Can Moral Mondays Save America? (Pay Attention Teabaggers - This Is Where You Suck)
Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits? Retired General Anthony Zinni, retired General Jack Keane and former Bush administration official Fran Townsend. Income inequality is hurting state tax revenue, report says. Income inequality is taking a toll on state governments. The widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else has been matched by a slowdown in state tax revenue, according to a report being released Monday by Standard & Poor’s. Wait, the NFL is a 'non-profit' organization? Suit: Corinthian Colleges victimized students. For-profit higher education chain Corinthian Colleges (COCO) was accused Tuesday of victimizing tens of thousands of students with predatory loan and debt-collection practices, the latest in a series of government actions against the California-based company. A federal court civil lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged that Corinthian lured its students to take out expensive federal and private loans by giving them false and misleading representations about career opportunities and job placement assistance.
Corinthian shares plummeted following news of the latest action, closing down more than 26% at 10 cents per share in Tuesday trading. CBS Replacing Rihanna Song on Football Broadcast After Singer Complains. We have a winner! Elisabeth Hasselbeck is first Fox host to link NFL scandals to Benghazi. Bernie Sanders takes unabashedly liberal 2016 pitch on the road. 5 Ways Mitch McConnell Explains Our Bleak World The 50 Most Influential LGBT People in Media. Democrats Have Their Best August In History and Strengthen Their Position To Keep The Senate. Memo: Value in anti-Koch attacks - Maggie Haberman. Malala Yousafzai Fights for Women's and Girls' Rights: Glamour.com. 'SeaTac is proving trickle-down economics wrong' Echoes of Orwell in U.N. report on North Korea. The Republicans: Freeloading off the political system for twenty years. In stunning move, Alaska Democrats and independents form fusion ticket to beat Republican governor.
A Guide to Common Core. Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch. Does a Supreme Court Justice just say, "oops"? Turkey Struggles to Halt Islamic State 'Jihadist Highway' - WSJ.