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National Geographic’s latest cover story has generated lots of attention because it sneers at those close-minded Americans — mostly conservatives, of course — who do not accept scientific “facts.” Only 40 percent of Americans (according to Pew Research Center) “accept that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming,” and the magazine finds it “dispiriting” that so many “reasonable people doubt science.”
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If a Republican did this Kohn might be a little more inquisitive.
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In the last days of World War II, the Red Armyâs rampaging assaults on Austria and Germany included the raping of hundreds of thousands of women. When a senior Communist denounced such behavior, Josef Stalin criticized not the rapist soldiers, but the Communist: âCanât he understand if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death, has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?â Once, sexual violence inflicted on women was regarded as a normal part of war, whether to be celebrated as the victorâs âtaking some trifle,â or regretted as part of what makes war hell. Soviet sexual violence was extreme during World War II, but, though totals are debated, American, French and British rape victims too were counted in the many thousands.
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Sen. Ted Cruz is expanding his footprint into South Carolina, hiring a veteran conservative operative there to advise his likely 2016 presidential campaign.
The Texas Republican's political team confirmed Monday that it has tapped LaDonna Ryggs to help lead Cruz' efforts in South Carolina. The state hosts the third nominating contest of the 2016 primary â and first in the GOP-dominated South. Ryggs, a former GOP county chairman, isn't necessarily a household name. But she has close ties to the Republican base that Cruz hopes will fuel his rise. Ryggs also has relationships with the party Establishment and bring's to the senator's operation years of experience navigating the ins and outs of South Carolina primary campaigns.
I like LaDonna, a South Carolina GOP insider said. She's respected by activists.
Ryggs is working for Cruz' Jobs, Growth & Freedom Fund political action committee as a senior advisor. The senator is not yet a candidate for president, but he is expected to announce for the White House sometime this spring. Ryggs was most recently the managing editor of Palladian View, a digital magazine for conservative Republican women. She earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from Bob Jones University.
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The toughest job in politics these days is defending Hillary Clinton, mocked brilliantly by The Post as the âDeleter of the Free World.â Her beleaguered defenders, as they retreat behind the bunker...
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It was only a matter of time before libertarianism jumped the shark. The childishly optimistic sect of the liberty movement is moving past pot legalization and gay marriage. Their detente with libe...
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The fate of Obamacare rests in the hands of the American people and not the Supreme Court, according to Scott Rasmussen, the founder and president of the Rasmussen Media Group.
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Jose and Ana Sanchez ran for their lives during El Salvador's civil war, resettled in Los Angeles and joined the working class.
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The destruction by ISIS of Iraq's most sacred Christian sites continues in the ancient city of Nineveh, where pictures posted online by the radical army show crosses being smashed and priceless figures of the Virgin Mary being shattered.
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A 10-year LAPD officer and a second person were charged by federal prosecutors Monday with trying to smuggle a Mexican citizen into the United States in the trunk of a car at the Otay Mesa border crossing.
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#TheRefinery crew talk about the Left's slimy desire to dig up dirt on Conservatives, and discuss Media Matters For America's memo outlining their plan to ta...
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California Governor Jerry Brown (D) has accused Americans opposed to President Barack Obama's executive amnesty for illegal immigrants of being "un-Christian." Brown, who has declared that all illegal immigrants from Mexico are "welcome" in California, made his remarks after a White House meeting on Friday while discussing the lawsuit that a majority of the states filed against Obama's executive amnesty.
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Stunning New Dot Connections - Methinks the White House doth protest too much. I would love to see Josh Earnest try to square the circle of this recent revelation. The facts of this story have exis...
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Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News that the United States is now willing to negotiate with (and accept as a legitimate ruler) Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a striking contrast from the administration’s prior insistence that regime change would be the only tolerated approach for Damascus.
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Child care centers operate on razor-thin margins — thinner, even, than those of the restaurant industry — and many are lucky to wind up in the black at the end of the year. A restaurant can raise prices to meet the new cost of doing business, but child care operations have limited flexibility. Both the state-funded programs and their private counterparts are bound by strict state ratio requirements, which mandate that a certain number of employees be present with the children each day. “That’s one of the unintended consequences” of Oakland’s Measure FF, the November ballot measure that raised the city’s minimum wage from $9 an hour, said Richard Winefield, executive director of the nonprofit child care referral service Bananas. A lot of (centers) are run on very narrow margins, and when they increase the hourly rate on their employees, they need to pass that on in tuition costs, so families need to fork over more money. Winefield says that in most cases, parents waiting for a subsidy make a few dollars a week above the cutoff for state welfare, but are still “very much in need.” Doutherd keeps track of the many painful testimonials from these parents, some of whom can’t keep jobs because they have no one to look after their children. Because they don’t have employment, many are also unable to find housing, she says. Charlotte Guinn, whose home day care center is entering its 20th year in downtown Oakland, says she raised monthly tuition prices by $40 to $60 in January to anticipate the minimum wage hike, to about $950 a month. “I have people who park in front of my home and walk to work so they can save $600 to pay for child care,” she said, adding that one parent recently begged for a payment deadline extension after her car broke down. Guinn has tried to cut corners in every way possible, asking parents to donate crayons or napkins, and even urging them to sell candy door-to-door to raise money. Because of ratio requirements, she can’t lay off any staff to meet her new bottom line. Lift Up Oakland, the group that campaigned to get the minimum wage raised, maintains that businesses will not be hurt by Measure FF. The group, on its website, estimates, “Operating costs will increase by 0.3 percent for retail and 2.8 percent for restaurants.” [...] workers in the city’s child care industry said they supported Measure FF even though they knew it could create hardship for their businesses. Angie Garling, early care and education program administrator for Alameda County, concurred, calling it “a shame” that the caregivers who make it possible for Oakland parents to go to work every day are still at the bottom of the pay scale. At City Hall, Mayor Libby Schaaf has pulled together a group of local foundations to create an assistance plan for struggling nonprofits, including state-funded child care programs, according to a spokeswoman.
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The American Prospect’s Waldman sympathizes with conservatives who are “unfairly accused of racism,” but says that overall he doesn’t feel too sorry for them given that right-wingers routinely condone actual bigotry from their leaders. Addressing his conservative readers, Waldman admits that sometimes “liberals are too quick to see racist intent in a comment that may be innocuous or at worst unintentionally provocative. But you make heroes out of people like [Rudy] Giuliani, [Rush] Limbaugh, and [Erick] Erickson…and when other people occasionally notice the caustic hairballs of bile they spit onto waiting microphones, the most you can say is, ‘Well, I wouldn't go that far.’ So you have nothing to complain about.”
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Lines of attack are emerging, as opponents look to challenge the FCCâs landmark Web rules.
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800 men reportedly to be sent to Iraqi Samarra in new few weeks.
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Top House Republicans say it should happen this week.
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The DOJ reports on Ferguson are in. My policy is to read the full accounts prior to commenting, and in this case, I'm very glad I did. The two reports issued by the DOJ offer very different and conflicting images of the August events in Ferguson....
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Lieutenant Commander Wes Modder, a highly decorated veteran who has served 19 years in the Navy and now serves as a chaplain, is now at risk of losing his job because of an accusation that he is unable to “function in the diverse and pluralistic environment” in the Navy. Modder was on track for early …
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The Cotton Letter Was Not Sent Anywhere, Especially Not to Iran -
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The White House Office of Administration says it's not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act
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Approximately $1 million U.S. taxpayer dollars went from the CIA to Al Qaeda's pockets, according to a new report.
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Five key political players enjoy âvirtual impunityâ â while four lower-level figures are in prison or facing time
