The GOP's Electoral College Scheme. Republicans alarmed at the apparent challenges they face in winning the White House are preparing an all-out assault on the Electoral College system in critical states, an initiative that would significantly ease the party's path to the Oval Office. Senior Republicans say they will try to leverage their party's majorities in Democratic-leaning states in an effort to end the winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes. Instead, bills that will be introduced in several Democratic states would award electoral votes on a proportional basis. Already, two states -- Maine and Nebraska -- award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district.
The candidate who wins the most votes statewide takes the final two at-large electoral votes. Only once, when President Obama won a congressional district based in Omaha in 2008, has either of those states actually split their vote. Republican state legislators are motivated to act after Romney's loss. Freethought Blogs. Moneybox. This story first appeared in Inc. In six years, Interscope records mogul Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop icon Dr. Dre have turned Beats by Dr. Dre headphones into a $1 billion-plus business. Now, together with new president and former Interscope executive Luke Wood, they’re faced with a new challenge: taking a hot brand and making it, you might say, even hotter. To that end, Beats Electronics has introduced portable and wireless speakers, co-branded smartphones—and in January it even launched a new streaming music service, Beats Music, to compete with the likes of Spotify.
“You’ve got to be lucky enough to identify a problem where you think you can help,” says Iovine. “We got dumped on by audiophiles on Day One,” says Iovine. Assemble an All-Star Focus Group Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Beats by Dr. When developing the first Beats headphones, Iovine would lay out various prototypes in his Interscope offices and then poll everyone who came to see him. What Are Consumers Thinking About? Project Vote Smart - The Voter's Self Defense System.
Judicial Watch. Candidates on the Issues. Project On Government Oversight. OpenSecrets.org. Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy. The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context. It has become, for liberals and leftists enraged by the way Republicans never suffer the consequences for turning electoral politics into a cesspool, a kind of smoking gun. The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.
Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Inflation: Inflation and renewable energy. National Priorities Project: Democratizing the Federal Budget. No More Mister Nice Blog. Home - Radiolab. What Dreams May Come (film) While vacationing in Switzerland, pediatrician Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) meets artist Annie Collins (Annabella Sciorra). They are attracted to each other, and bond as if they had known each other for a long time. They marry and have two children, Ian (Josh Paddock) and Marie (Jessica Brooks Grant).
Their idyllic life ends when the children die in a car crash. Life becomes difficult: Annie suffers a mental breakdown and the couple contemplates divorce, but they manage through their losses. On the anniversary of the day they decided not to divorce, Chris is killed in another car crash. Chris awakens in Heaven, and learns that his immediate surroundings can be controlled by his imagination. Chris laments that he can no longer see his wife and soon encounters a woman who he comes to recognize as his daughter Marie, living in an area resembling a diorama that she loved in her lifetime.
Meanwhile, Annie is unable to cope with the loss of her husband and decides to commit suicide. Not A Blog. The Conservative Turn Against Science - The Chronicle Review. By Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes Jonathan Twingley for The Chronicle Review A prediction: When all the votes have been counted and the reams of polling data have been crunched, analyzed, and spun, this will be clear: Few scientists will have voted for Republican candidates, particularly for national office. Survey data taken from 1974 through 2010 and analyzed by Gordon Gauchat in the American Sociological Review confirm that most American scientists are not conservatives.
A 2009 study by the Pew Research Center found that only 9 percent of scientists self-identified as conservative, while 52 percent called themselves liberals. Only 6 percent of American scientists self-identified as Republicans. It was not always this way. Why have scientists fled the Republican Party? It seems hard to believe today, but environmental protection used to be a bipartisan affair. Confirmation of global warming activated a new phase in the conservative assault. The historian J. Consider carbon dioxide. The Conservative Turn Against Science - The Chronicle Review.
Xkcd: Moving Sidewalks. Hardball. Now playing All eyes on Christie as ‘Bridgegate’ unfoldsup next GOP launches effort to reach out to women ‘Shoe truthers’ cast doubt on Hillary Matthews: ‘Bridgegate’ pieces coming together GOP still searching for a 2016 leader Eric Holder sparks debate about racism Tea party candidate parodies Cialis ad Bridgegate requiring further investigation Will youth rally to support Obama? Matthews: GOP likely heading toward defeat A moment of silence for Boston Far right finds new hero in Nevada rancher All but 12 Republicans support Ryan budget Matthews: I’m glad for Colbert Colbert to drop character for Late Show How the WH feels about Sebelius leaving Kimmel downplays his impact on Ford race Battle over politics and race heats up Matthews: Who will lead the GOP in 2016?
Is Christie still a 2016 contender? Jeb Bush: testing his armor on immigration, ed reform. All In. Now playing The real ‘Grievance Industry’up next Why the rich never stop complaining Obamacare enrollment hits 8 million Colicchio hits Christie over ‘fridgegate’ Most romantic political contribution ever Errors in a rape investigation Colleges and the culture of rape accusations Crisis escalates in Ukraine Port Authority scandal at ground zero? Fox News’ beef with marijuana Low-wage worker confronts GOP congressman Billionaires: The opinions that really matter Government by the few What happens when the 1% rule our politics Why conservatives want to dismantle the IRS The GOP wants you to hate the IRS GOP candidates dodge Obamacare questions Bain Capital investing in methadone clinics Where is the social safety net? Why ‘Tax Day’ could be so much easier The problem with tax prep for the poor Why many in the GOP love this Nevada rancher States’ rights activists flock to Nevada Is Ukraine being invaded in slow-motion?
One-on-one with legendary filmmaker James Cameron. The Maddow Blog. The Last Word. Home | Free Speech TV. Mondoweiss. Kevin Drum. The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, in which conservatives will argue that the text of Obamacare limits federal subsidies only to people who buy insurance from state-run exchanges, not from the federal exchange. Roughly speaking, there are two prongs of the conservative argument: The law contains text that explicitly limits subsidies to state-run exchanges.
Democrats may not have intended this, but they screwed up in the rush to get the bill passed. Was meant as an incentive for states to run their own exchanges rather than punting the job to the feds. The argument over #1 revolves around textual interpretation of the statute as a whole, as well as previous Supreme Court precedent that provides federal agencies with broad latitude in how they implement regulations. But the recollections of journalists aren't really very germane to a Supreme Court case. Wonkette — The D.C. Gossip. Slacktivist. Thank you for your interest in Patheos newsletters! Please enter your email address below and click the "Subscribe" button. Thank you for your subscription.
You can visit your Preference Center to complete your profile and see what else we have to offer. We apologize, we were unable to complete your subscription at this time, please try again later. If this error persists please contact us at communications@patheos.com. Like what you're reading? Ta-Nehisi Coates - Authors. On Monday, 66-year old Joan Tarshis accused Bill Cosby of raping her. Tarshis says the attack took place in 1969, when she was 19 and working as comedy writer: ... [H]e told me that he wanted to work on a monologue together, and I had an idea for something about an earthquake that had just happened.
It was my first earthquake. I had some funny lines, and he said, Sure, let's work on that. And then? We went up to his cottage after they were done shooting. Tarshis is the fifth woman to publicly accuse Bill Cosby of raping her. Perhaps it is not fair for a journalist to consider, or even publicize, anonymous allegations of criminal activity. Most of these allegations came after Constand sued Cosby in civil court. A defense of Cosby requires that one believe that several women have decided to publicly accuse one of the most powerful men in recent Hollywood history of a crime they have no hope of seeing prosecuted, and for which they are seeking no damages. It was not enough. Conor Friedersdorf - Authors. Moneybox. DownWithTyranny! Wonkblog. Eric Alterman. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (AP Photo/J.
Scott Applewhite) My new Nation column is called "The Right Loses It Over Russia—Again" and it notes that "Conservative hysteria over Putin's aggression in 2014 is eerily reminiscent of right-wing reaction to a previous Crimean adventure, at the dawn of the Cold War. Alter-reviews: Spring Quartet at Rose Hall Reed and I did not post last week so I have a number of shows to discuss. As for the headliners, they were a real band despite the generational divide separating the veterans DeJohnette and Lovano from the youngsters, Genovese and Spalding. Jim Caruso's Cast Party A week later, I returned to Jazz@Lincoln Center, this time to the beautiful Appel Room, which is the Allen Room renamed in honor of a multi-million dollar gift, and for a show called "Jim Caruso’s Cast Party.
" There were too many highlights to even begin to do justice to them. The next American Songbook show will be Mark Mulcahy on March 19 at the Stanley H. Drive-By Truckers. David Dayen Twitter feed. Gin and Tacos. Gallup. Mediaite.com | News & Opinion | Media: TV, Print, Online, Jobs, Ranking. Media Matters. Right Wing Watch. NewsHounds. PRA. The two most prominent LGBTQ organizations in the conservative movement, GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, are getting the cold shoulder from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Since 1973, CPAC, hosted annually by the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF), has attracted thousands of activists and some of the biggest names on the Right, with this year’s March 14-16 speaker line-up including Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and Sarah Palin.
Under pressure from participating anti-LGBTQ organizations, the major annual conservative gathering rejected GOProud as a conference sponsor in 2012 and again this year. It’s unclear whether the Log Cabin Republicans’ absence is due to an official refusal or solidarity with GOProud. The decision is facing a hail of criticism from both conservative and liberal commentators, including S.E. Cupp and Chris Hayes, who have refused to speak at next week’s conference if GOProud is not allowed in. FAIR.