Friends – As the Republican primary heats up, here are a few things you should know: The Republican candidates — all of them — want to repeal health care reform, the same law that meant 2.5 million more young people were insured in 2011. They all want to take away a woman’s right to choose [...]
Hillary Clinton talks to President Obama ahead of the State of the Union on Jan. 24, 2012. (Evan Vucci/AP) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told State Department employees Thursday that she will not stay on in the job if President Obama wins re-election, saying that after two decades, she is ready to step off “the [...]
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By Connor Adams Sheets January 18, 2012 3:17 PM EST SOPA and PIPA are the two Internet privacy bills currently under consideration by the U.S. Congress with similar goals and provisions but certain key differences. Both the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act bills are aimed at stopping illegal downloading and other forms [...]
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Carl Gibson Spokesman and Organizer, US Uncut 01/12/2012 After the swearing-in of the first Congress elected by unlimited corporate election spending, 2011 went down as the year Congress fiddled while America burned. Republicans and Democrats both took their turns engaging in their fair part of naked corruption. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on clandestine [...]
Published Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:14 PM SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. Kim’s death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in [...]
D-Source 12/18/2011 I have been contacted by several people, asking for my take on the sudden rise in the Murder Rates in my hometown community of Akron, Ohio; along with the sudden finger pointing, as Politicians and Residents search for who is to blame. My response is as follows… Note that my response is relevant [...]
AYP Results for 2010-11 Author(s): Alexandra Usher Published: December 15, 2011This report updates previous CEP research with data from the 2010-11 school year on the number of schools not making adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The estimated percentage of all U.S. schools not making AYP was 48% in [...]
Braylon Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college Post by Byakuugan_Mod in News on Jun 1, 2011 at 1:59 pm Braylon Edwards was very popular in the headlines for all the wrong reasons not too long ago. His name could have easily been added to my earlier Celebrity Trouble Again? blog. This time he’s [...]
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 politics Obama Care obama health care health care health insurance breast cancer Today in a L.A. Times op-ed, a woman who was so upset with President Obama for having “let down the struggling middle class” that she switched her registration from Democrat to Independent and altered her Obama bumpers [...]
By msnbc.com’s Michael O’ Brien Herman Cain said Saturday that he is suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to end his campaign after weathering weeks of scrutiny over alleged sexual misconduct and accusations of an extramarital affair. “As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my [...]
D-Source Some believe the White House Christmas Tree should be renamed the White House Holiday Tree or some other more religeously neutral name. The reasoning is that the United States of America, while still a primarily Christian Nation, is now home to people of most every major religeon in the entire world. There are those [...]