#372951
President Obama on Monday bluntly challenged the Supreme Court over a pending ruling on the validity of ObamaCare subsidies, saying the court shouldn't even have taken up the case -- and warning that a decision striking the subsidies down would be a twisted interpretation of the law.
#372952
Rubio's four traffic tickets aren't news, unless you're publishing political hit pieces.
#372953
Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS’s latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a liberation campaign f...
#372954
While the administration is pressing to have a court's injunction against executive amnesty lifted, it has also put hiring plans for the programs on hold, including stopping efforts to hire up to 3,100 new employees who would have worked in a $7.8 million-a-year building in Arlington, Virginia’s Crystal City. The building is largely unused now, DHS employees report.
#372955
City parents are voting with their feet — yanking their kids from traditional schools and moving them to charters. Well, trying to, anyway — but Democrats in the state Assembly are blocking the sch...
#372956
Theodor Adorno was a thinker who worried about what people get up to in their leisure time. He called Walt Disney the most dangerous man in America – and was...
#372957
Former Green Party and independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader labeled 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a “deep corporatist and a deep militarist” who has made peace with the nation’s power structure.
#372958
It’s true that gender is a social construction. It’s also true that it’s a social construction built on a natural foundation.
#372959
The great Mike Rowe responds to idiot saying he's tired of his 'right-wing propaganda' of WORK ETHIC
Not enough people are hearkening to Mike Rowe's very important message, and some people purposely distort what he says in order to shoehorn him into their political pigeonholes. In a response to on...
#372960
Paralysis and “paranoia’’ brought on by Preet Bharara’s ongoing corruption probe have come to define Gov. Cuomo and his administration with just seven days to go in the legislative session, a worri...
#372962
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been ignoring Bruce Jenner. As a child of the ’70s, I ignored him in the cereal aisle, where his Olympic-champion mug couldn’t entice me to pick his terminally bland Wheaties over more healthful Sugar Smacks. I ignored him in the ’80s, during his star-turn in Can’t Stop the Music, a disco-tinged Village People biopic that saw him nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for worst actor. In the ’90s, I don’t recall Jenner at all, as I was rather busy ignoring him.
#372963
The calls for Republicans to fight back against the Caitlyn Jenner sensation.
#372964
In Progressive World, there are at least four stages of legally becoming an adult.On Tuesday, the California Senate voted to raise the age when young people can buy cigarettes, from 18 to 21. The Hawaii Legislature has passed similar legislation. A companion California bill would mandate that e-cigarettes fall under the same restrictions as tobacco smokes.If the bills become law, 18 will make a Californian old enough to vote, to enlist in the military, to sign a contract, to buy a gun, to get a tattoo and to get married — but not old enough to buy a cigarette. Not for three years.It’s also not old enough to drink.I am old enough to remember the mantra, “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.” In 1971, responding to a system that allowed 18-year-olds to enlist in the military without letting them vote for who would run it, states ratified the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
#372965
As Islamic State propagandists set their sights on recruiting Western youths through slickly produced videos, newscasts, blogs and tweets, U.S. cities with large Muslim populations are reaching out to fight the threat in a variety of ways. In Columbus, leaders of the Somali community, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, meet frequently with law enforcement, and a mosque gives youngsters an outlet for their energies.
#372966
After losing her high-stakes gender discrimination lawsuit and telling the world she just wanted to have her story heard, Ellen Pao offered to forgo her right to appeal if her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers paid her $2.7 million, according to court documents filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court. In the filing, Kleiner Perkins said that Pao’s objections to the firm’s legal fees are “particularly nonsensical given her own post-trial demand ... for $2.7 million to cover her fees and costs.” At a time when tensions surrounding the tech industry’s lack of diversity were already boiling, Pao alleged that Kleiner Perkins promoted male partners over equally qualified women, and then retaliated against her for speaking up about it. Pao’s attorneys, however, said in a filing that the settlement offer was made in bad faith because her own legal fees had climbed to $650,000 before the trial started. In Friday’s filing, the venture capital firm said that the $1 million pretrial settlement offer should have been more than enough, since at that point discovery was nearly complete, and it should have been apparent to Pao that there was a “strong likelihood” that she would not win. A footnote in Friday’s filing argues that Pao should not be allowed to introduce evidence of any financial distress now to have the legal fees reduced, since it was not allowed in trial. If Pao moves forward with the appeal, she will leave on the table $972,814.50 in legal fees Kleiner Perkins has offered to waive.
#372967
This one will definitely make you think.
#372968
Even as activists gear up, court rulings have prevented officials from moving forward on a plan to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
#372969
conservativewriter:
“emperorkatuunuxvi:
“gunattheready:
“theheartofapatriot:
“Someone’s reproductive system is none of my business, but it is my financial responsibility.
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Racism is disagreeing with...
#372970
Perry to Hillary: Fix Your Own State Before You Attack The People of Texas
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#372972
Senate leaders may consider a stopgap measure to avoid a partial shutdown of state government over the Legislature's impasse on budget and tax issues.
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#372974
While other cities across America, including West Coast cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego have been adopting ordinances raising their local minimum wage — climbing toward a $15 per hour minimum wage by 2020 — Irvine is apparently America’s only major city headed in the other direction, actually cutting its minimum wage by more than 20%.
#372975
Republican leaders and the White House see momentum for their shared priority.
