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Sunday Talk: Wag The Dog
Published: Sunday May 26th 12AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/26/1211489/-Sunday-Talk-Wag-the-dog
Description: Monday afternoon, in a transparent attempt to divert attention from the ber-Nixonianscandals plaguing him, President Obamastaged an EF5 tornado in Oklahoma.This wasn't the first time that Obama has conducted a #FalseFlag operation, nor was it the first time he's used the weather as a weapon; it was, however, the first time that he has directly targeted America's heartland.With manyquestions about the president's actionsrequiring answers, no doubt there will be Congressionalinvestigations an... read more »
John Boehner Tries To Stump Obama
Published: Thursday May 23rd 3PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...60/-John-Boehner-tries-to-stump-Obama
Description: Yep, John Boehner's making an old, poll-tested, ideological pledge to keep America safe. On his jolly little official speaker's blog, Republican House Speaker John Boehner or his minion poster tosses off a post titled 10 Questions for President Obama About Keeping America Safe and Secure, there are nine actually reasonable questions, and then one that ends the entry with a flourish:What is more important: fulfilling old, poll-tested, ideological campaign pledges or keeping America safe and secur... read more »
Wapo Poll: America Divided On Obama's Uniting
Published: Tuesday May 21st 9AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ll-America-Divided-On-Obama-s-Uniting
Description: No president is immune from partisanship and partisan atitudes.No president, it seems to me, can escape politics - JFK The Post Partisan Unity Schtick as a "demonstration project" demonstrating Obama is the "adult in the room" and the GOP is why we can't "come together" is not a success: T he country is split literally down the middle on Obama s ability to unite/divide it is a telling indication that the man who pledged he could change Washington has struggled might... read more »
No 'rate Shock' For Obamacare In California
Published: Friday May 24th 1PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ate-shock-for-Obamacare-in-California
Description: Conservatives have been crowing this week over the big story out of California, the decision to stay out of California's health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act. That would doom the system, they said, because the lack of competition would make rates unaffordable. They had to stop their crowing, though, when the other big story about Obamcare in California came out. The proposed rates for the California exchange were just released, and it turns out there's plenty of compet... read more »
Animal Nuz #150
Published: Saturday May 25th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/25/1211486/-Animal-Nuz-150
Mitch Mcconnell Exposes Barack Obama's 'culture Of Intimidation'
Published: Saturday May 25th 7PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...arack-Obama-s-culture-of-intimidation
Description: Mitch "Stop intimidating me" McConnell meets with the Intimidator-in-Chief Writing in Thursday's Washington Post, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell provides evidence that he says substantiates his assertion that President Barack Obama is responsible for a "culture of intimidation" that "goes well beyond one agency or a few rogue employees."For example, McConnell says:The president s lawyers circulated a draft executive order in 2011 that would have required any... read more »
Open Thread: Mayors, Tornadoes, And Page-turners
Published: Saturday May 25th 6PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ead-Mayors-tornadoes-and-page-turners
Description: What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...The end of perpetual war, by kosBook review: Mary Pipher's 'The Green Boat,' by Susan GardnerA twist in the wind, by DarkSydeBook review: Barbara Garson's 'Down the Up Escalator,' by Laura ClawsonThe Race to Gracie Mansion, by Denise Oliver-VelezCatholic hospital mergers put women's health at risk, by Jon Perr read more »
Nrsc Makes Itself And Gomez Ridiculous In Massachusetts Senate Race
Published: Saturday May 25th 5PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...diculous-in-Massachusetts-Senate-race
Description: This is just stupid. A super PAC created by California billionaire Tom Steyer, NextGen PAC, is talking about launching a campaign against Republican Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts Senate race with Ed Markey. Markey doesn't want anything to do with it and "has called on Steyer to stay out of the race." That's because Markey has signed a pledge that Gomez has not signed to limit outside spending in his campaign the "People's Pledge." With that established, enter the Nationa... read more »
Green Diary Rescue: The Redwoods, The High Plains Aquifer And Fracking Ourselves Crazy
Published: Saturday May 25th 4PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-Aquifer-and-fracking-ourselves-crazy
Description: Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 227 of these spotlighting more than 12,723 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 78 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the ... read more »
Midday Open Thread
Published: Saturday May 25th 3PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/25/1211630/-Miday-open-thread
Description: An open thread to kick off a long weekend right.Hmmm...the Ohio School Board is considering teaching kids creationism in schools. Daily Kos emerita Kaili Joy Gray:Um, no. No, wrong, fail, and no. While proponents of creationism like to say that it is simply another theory that should be taught side-by-side with evolution, it isn t. Evolution is an actual theory with actual scientific evidence to support it. Creationism has, um, people who believe stuff, but, like, believe it really really really... read more »
This Week In The War On Workers: Low-wage Workers Keep Pressuring Fast Food Chains
Published: Saturday May 25th 1PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...kers-keep-pressuring-fast-food-chains
Description: Several of the low-wage federal contractors who went on strike on Tuesday were told not to come back to work on Wednesday, Josh Eidelson reports:Bassett s employee Suyapa Moreno told The Nation in Spanish that three of her outlet s four staff went on strike Tuesday, and that when they showed up to start their shift on Wednesday, the owner told my co-worker she was fired. So I said, If you re going to fire her, I m not coming back to work. She said her manager told them that she didn t want to se... read more »
Saturday Nutpick-a-palooza: Gitmo Is Like Beenghaaaaaaazzzzeee
Published: Saturday May 25th 1PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...za-Gitmo-is-like-BEENGHAAAAAAAZZZZEEE
Description: Today's source material:Gird your loins, America. President Obama intends to empty out Guantanamo Bay and send scores of suspected Muslim terror operatives back to their jihadist-coddling native countries. Goaded by anti-war activists and soft-on-terror attorneys including those from Attorney General Eric Holder's former private law firm , Obama announced Thursday that he'll lift a ban on sending up to 90 Yemeni detainees home and will initiate other stalled transfers out of the compound. I hope... read more »
This Week In The War On Voting: Bipartisan Election Commission Seen As Weak Tea By Some Critics
Published: Saturday May 25th 12PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...sion-seen-as-weak-tea-by-some-critics
Description: This week in the war on voting is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades Voting Commission could modernize elections: President Obama announced the members of the new Presidential Commission on Election Administration Tuesday. The task of the 10-member commission is to "to identify non-partisan ways to shorten lines at polling places, promote the efficient conduct of elections, and provide better access to the polls for all voters," according to a commission press release.T... read more »
This Week In The World Of Progressive State Blogs: Gov. Tancredo Pipeline Votes. Cutting 1 Er Taxes
Published: Saturday May 25th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...edo-Pipeline-votes-Cutting-1-er-taxes
Description: Each Saturday, this feature links and excerpts commentary and reporting from a dozen progressive state blogs in the past seven days around the nation. The idea is not only to spotlight specific issues but to give readers who may not know their state has a progressive blog or two a place to become regularly informed about doings in their back yard. Just as states with progressive lawmakers and activists have themselves initiated innovative programs over a wide range of issues, state-based progres... read more »
In Weekly Address, Obama Urges Americans To Honor The Fallen On Memorial Day Weekend
Published: Saturday May 25th 10AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...or-the-fallen-on-Memorial-Day-weekend
Description: We must do more than remember.We must care for the loved ones that our fallen service members have left behind.We must make sure all our veterans have the care and benefits they ve earned, and the jobs and opportunity they deserve.President Obama used the forum of his weekly address this morning to emphasize his past week's focus on national security, his address to the graduating class at the Naval Academy, and to tie his week in to America's economic future and how we honor our fallen, our act... read more »
This Week In Science: Perspective
Published: Saturday May 25th 9AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...901/-This-week-in-science-Perspective
Description: A schematic of an iconic celestial object. To see it and a couple of its more exquisite cousin in full visible wavelength glory, click the image. My skeptical peers and I were buoyed to see the hundreds of millions of people on earth who do not profess belief in religion given some positive attention in the media this week thanks to the Pope's hopeful statement on atheism. I'd love to see top-notch sites where this volatile topic is discussed, like FreeThoughtBlogs or Patheos, mentioned on air m... read more »
Open Thread For Night Owls: Amy Goodman Another Memorial Day In This Endless War
Published: Friday May 24th 11PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ther-Memorial-Day-in-this-endless-war
Description: Independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now" and author of The Silenced Majority, a magnificent look at diverse groups of Americans engaged in resistance to plutocrats and jingoists. She wrote this column before President Obama gave his global war on terrorism speech Thursday; so she does not mention it. But what was said at the National Defense University by the president does not make any of her criticisms obsolete. There were, however, some encoura... read more »
Economics Daily Digest: The Real Student Debt Crisis
Published: Friday May 24th 9AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...y-Digest-The-real-student-debt-crisis
Description: By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New DealClick here to receive the Daily Digest via email.Nobel winner: Cut student loan rates USA Today Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz says he backs Elizabeth Warren's plan to let students borrow at the same discount rate as banks because student debt is holding back our economy, especially compared to countries that are actually doing something about it.Roosevelt Take: The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network's policy report &q... read more »
Apple Launches Iromney
Published: Thursday May 23rd 4PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/23/1211273/-Apple-launches-iRomney
Description: On Monday, Congressional investigators revealed that Apple has side-stepped billions of dollars in U.S taxes "through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen." Nevertheless, Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations turned into an Apple love fest, with CEO Timothy Cook insisting to little opposition, "We pay all the taxes we owe every single dollar."Of course, if that line so... read more »
Banksters' Lobbyists Writing Financial Bills To Water Down Dodd-frank
Published: Friday May 24th 4PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...l-bills-to-water-down-nbsp-Dodd-Frank
Description: Maybe just to ensure that no bankster will ever face the slimmest possibility of being convicted and sent to prison, they're now writing the laws that would govern them, with the blessing of Republicans, of course.One bill that sailed through the House Financial Services Committee this month over the objections of the Treasury Department was essentially Citigroup s, according to e-mails reviewed by The New York Times. The bill would exempt broad swathes of trades from new regulation. In a sign o... read more »
Steve King Blames Dirty Wimp Ronald Reagan For Obama's Eventual Election
Published: Friday May 24th 3PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-Reagan-for-Obama-s-eventual-election
Description: Hates Ronald Reagan Now here's a conspiracy theory I've never heard before:Rep. Steve King R-Iowa said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren't for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law. In an effort to dissuade Republicans, King argued that the 1986 immigration bill that Reagan signed into law is estimated to have brought amnesty to three million illegal immigrants.He said conservative estimates show that, on average, each of these people brought in ... read more »
Cheers And Jeers: Rum And Coke Friday
Published: Friday May 24th 7PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-Cheers-and-Jeers-Rum-and-Coke-FRIDAY
Description: From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE Late Night Snark: Impeachapalooza Edition "If you watch the news like I do, you know the Obama administration is embroiled in so many scandals that trying to pick which one to report on is like trying to pick which of your children to impeach. For the record, it s the one who ate chips in Daddy's den."---Stephen Colbert"And that's how you write 'Darrell Issa Will Never Be President.'" - "If they don't fix these crises pretty soon, honest to ... read more »
Internal Wall Street Pitchbook Shows That You, The Clients, Are Suckers
Published: Wednesday May 22nd 5PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...hows-that-you-the-clients-are-suckers
Description: Do you despise Wall Street sufficiently yet How about now An internal document, known as the Golden Pitchbook to senior brokers at John Thomas Financial, has been leaked and it is very, very sexist. Sexism ain't the half of it. It's basically a manual on how to sell stocks modeled on how the biggest bastards of the used car industry might sell used cars, and is a fine demonstration of how similar the two worlds are. A part of the pitch book known colloquially at the firm as "Don't Pitch the... read more »
Open Thread: 'al Gore. Al Gooore,' Says The Cat
Published: Friday May 24th 6PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...thread-Al-Gore-Al-Gooore-says-the-cat
Debt Limit, Budget Fight Fracturing Gop
Published: Friday May 24th 3PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ebt-limit-budget-fight-fracturing-GOP
Description: The best political show in D.C. this week wasn't the IRS hearings, it was the GOP drama playing out sporadically on the Senate floor as four tea party bombthrowers, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Mike me-too me-too Lee faced off against Susan Collins and John McCain over the budget. The four nihilists are blocking the Senate from naming the senators that will go to the budget conference with the House in the way the Senate has always done it, under unanimous consent. They are refusing to a... read more »
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's Staff Has Now Verified That He Knows A Brown Person
Published: Friday May 24th 2PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...verified-that-he-knows-a-brown-person
Description: Please just stop talking for a while. You may have heard of the odd exchange earlier this week in which Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett professed to not having any current Latino members of his administration, or at least none that he knows about, and invited folks to come suss out whether any in his staff were Latino and report back:MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are Latino CORBETT: No, we do not have any staff members in there. If you can find us one, please let me know.MODERATOR: I a... read more »
E.w. Jackson Explains Why It's Not Fair To Use His Own Words Against Him
Published: Friday May 24th 2PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...fair-to-use-his-own-words-against-him
Description: E.W. Jackson, the whack-a-doodle running mate of the Virginia GOP's whack-a-doodle gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli, defends himself from being tarnished by the statements he's made:In an email sent to The Daily Caller this week, the running mate to Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli said every one of those comments has a context and were spoken in my role as a minister, not as a candidate. Ah, okay then. As long as there's a context and he didn't say it as a candidate, then t... read more »
Midday Open Thread
Published: Friday May 24th 3PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/24/1211341/-Midday-open-thread
Description: Today's comic by Mark Fiore is Money Fer Nothin':What's coming up on Sunday Kos ...The end of perpetual war, by kosBook review: Mary Pipher's 'The Green Boat,' by Susan GardnerA twist in the wind, by DarkSydeBook review: Barbara Garson's 'Down the Up Escalator,' by Laura ClawsonThe Race to Gracie Mansion, by Denise Oliver-VelezCatholic hospital mergers put women's health at risk, by Jon PerrBrad Pitt and Markos, together in a slideshow like God intended.If you've been drinking in a New Jersey ba... read more »
Gop Congressman Outraged Irs Didn't Investigate How Harry Reid 'obtained' Mitt Romney's Tax Returns
Published: Friday May 24th 1PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...id-obtained-Mitt-Romney-s-tax-returns
Description: Harry Reid's gambit continues to live on Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get another laugh out of Harry Reid's claim that an anonymous source had told him Mitt Romney hadn't paid a single dime in taxes over the past decade, along comes this sublime moment from GOP congressman Paul Gosar during Wednesday's House Government Oversight Committee's IRS hearing:REP. PAUL GOSAR R-AZ : Are you aware that in July, 2012, Senator Harry Reid claimed Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes for the last 10 ... read more »
Unions Target Board Members After They Close Nearly 11 Of Chicago's Elementary Schools
Published: Thursday May 23rd 4PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ly-11-of-Chicago-s-elementary-schools
Description: Barbara Byrd-Bennett Forty-eight of the 50 elementary schools the Chicago Public Schools board of education voted to close Wednesday will be shuttered in June. The other two will get short reprieves. For all but one of the schools the vote was unanimous. Most of the 27,000 students affected are black and Latino and all live in poor neighborhoods.As they have for months, protesters objected to the closings Wednesday and tried to sit in at the meeting of the six-member school board. But security o... read more »
Tesla Repays Government Loan, Republicans Sniff
Published: Thursday May 23rd 6PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ays-government-loan-Republicans-sniff
Description: Who said government never helped create a job There's 3,000 of them at this Tesla plant.Good news for those who believe government should invest in next-generation green technologies that won't just help preserve our environment, but will make America industry a leader in that effort:In a boost for the Obama Administration and controversial federal cleantech programs, electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors TSLA announced Wednesday it paid back its 465 million government loan nine years early.The U.... read more »
In Iowa, Scott Walker Says Gop Should Look To Governors 'to Move Forward'
Published: Friday May 24th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...uld-look-to-governors-to-move-forward
Description: Tim Pawlenty, the Scott Walker of 20122011, couldn't have said it better himself. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, offering something of a self-endorsement on Thursday night at Iowa's annual Polk County GOP fundraising dinner: We should look to our states, to our governors, to our state legislative leaders to show the pathway we take not only in our states but in our country to move forward, the Wisconsin governor told more than 600 people in attendance at the annual Polk County GOP dinner. Optimism... read more »
A Bridge Falling Into The Water And A Vision For The Future Gone Missing
Published: Friday May 24th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-a-vision-for-the-future-gone-missing
Description: In the wake of the I-5 bridge collapse, the authorities want you to know that "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" don't necessarily mean "about to fall into the river." It's true They don't. Necessarily. The Skagit River Bridge combined two problem categories: It was functionally obsolete, meaning built to outdated specifications, and it was fracture-critical, meaning that if one key part fails, the whole thing fails. It's believed that that failure... read more »
Thin-skinned Gomez: Markey Is 'dirty And Low Pond Scum'
Published: Friday May 24th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...mez-Markey-is-dirty-and-low-pond-scum
Description: Republicans have found themselves another high-profile candidate who just is not ready for prime time, and certainly not ready for a state-wide run in blue Massachusetts. Gabriel Gomez proved that yet again Thursday when he responded to a question about whether his latest ad against Markey didn't show just a tiny bit of desperation in his campaign. To which Gomez replied with real desperation."You know I ve got four young kids, and they gotta sit there and gotta see an ad with their dad who... read more »
Karl Rove Pretty Sure Benghazi Will Be Hurting The President Anytime Now
Published: Friday May 24th 11AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-be-hurting-the-president-anytime-now
Description: Karl explains the math. Good times. I remember back when Karl Rove was considered some sort of election-bending genius. Now he's barely Fox News material. Here he is telling Newsmax pfft that just you wait, this Benghazi stuff is really gonna super-duper hurt the president. You know, because of all the probing questions Congress is going to be asking about it:"These things will be corrosive. They'll eat away at the president's rating. We'll see it over time and, particularly, as Congress as... read more »
Report: Holder Approved Search Warrant Labeling Reporter As A Co-conspirator
Published: Friday May 24th 10AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...labeling-reporter-as-a-co-conspirator
Description: NBC News National Investigative Correspondent Co-conspirator Michael Isikoff reports:Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a possible co-conspirator in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday. The disclosure of the attorney general s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, sai... read more »
Money Fer Nothin'
Published: Friday May 24th 9AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/24/1211078/-Money-Fer-Nothin
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Iowa, Maine Struggling Over Medicaid Expansion
Published: Thursday May 23rd 5PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ruggling-over-Medicaid-nbsp-expansion
Description: One Republican governor has finally given up his opposition to expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, while another is steadfastly fighting his legislature, vetoing an expansion bill.The former is Iowa's Terry Brandstad who has finally signed off on a compromise the state Senate worked out. It's a variation of the privatized Arkansas model, in which the Medicaid money will subsidize the purchase of insurance either in a new state plan or on the new insurance exchange. Even with Brandstad's approval... read more »
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Welcome Back, Tom Tancredo
Published: Friday May 24th 8AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...ning-Digest-Welcome-back-Tom-Tancredo
Description: Want the scoop on hot races around the country Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: CO-Gov: Aww yeah Ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose maximally anti-immigrant zealotry makes him exactly who the Colorado GOP does not want as their standard-bearer, just declared that he's going to make a second run for governor. I admit I'm surprised at this turn of events, since Tancredo only first publicly mooted the idea last week, and even he said that he wasn't seriously co... read more »
Daily Kos Radio Is Not Live At 9am Et
Published: Friday May 24th 8AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...Daily-Kos-Radio-is-NOT-LIVE-at-9am-ET
Description: In fact, Daily Kos Radio is not live at all today. But just in case you wish it was and happen to have missed yesterday's show, hit the play button below, close your eyes, and pretend: We'll be back on the air LIVE again next Tuesday, following the Memorial Day weekend. Stay safe and stay low There are a lot of guns in need of cleaning out there. read more »
No Deaths Reported In Washington State Bridge Collapse
Published: Friday May 24th 7AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...s-reported-in-Seattle-bridge-collapse
Description: The collapse of a section of the I-5 bridge spanning the Skagit River between Seattle and Vancouver did not cause any fatalities, authorities say, though they plan to send in divers just to be sure. No deaths is excellent news. The fact that a large section of a major bridge fell into the river is less good news.A truck with an oversized load is suspected to have hit the bridge:According to KIRO, the white semi-truck that was being investigated by State Patrol troopers was marked with an oversiz... read more »
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Ending The State Of Perpetual War
Published: Friday May 24th 7AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...d-pundit-roundup-Ending-perpetual-war
Description: The New York Times editorial board examines President Obama's national security speech and stresses the importance of ending the current state of perpetual war:President Obama s speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and mu... read more »
Update-i-5 Bridge Over Skagit River Collapses, Cars With People In Water
Published: Thursday May 23rd 10PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...r-collapses-cars-with-people-in-water
Description: From KOMO.News in Washington-MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening, injuring a unknown number of people.Both the northbound and southbound portions of the bridge dropped into the river sometime before 7 p.m., according to Washington State Patrol trooper Mark Francis.Francis said several cars were on the bridge when it collapsed, and many are now in the water.It's unclear how many people were injured or killed in the collapse.This is a dev... read more »
Open Thread For Night Owls: Wheeler Closing Gitmo Is Not Enough
Published: Thursday May 23rd 11PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...s-Wheeler-Closing-Gitmo-is-not-enough
Description: Marcy Wheeler is the author of Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. At Salon, she writes Obama admits "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare but fails to offer way out:Four years ago, President Obama gave a seminal counterterrorism speech in front of the Constitution arguing we uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right, but because it strengthens our country and... read more »
Economics Daily Digest: Fearing The Future
Published: Thursday May 23rd 9AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...omics-Daily-Digest-Fearing-the-Future
Description: By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New DealClick here to receive the Daily Digest via email.What s in millennials wallets Fewer credit cards LA Times Emily Alpert talks to Pipeline Fellow Nona Willis Aronowitz about why young households are carrying less and less credit card debt. According to Aronowitz, it s all about fear of an uncertain future.Roosevelt Take: Aronowitz discusses why she thinks Millennials should be called the Crash Generation.Why Suburban Poverty Is Less Visible... read more »
Fox And Furious Friends Wanted Doj To Prosecute The New York Times
Published: Wednesday May 22nd 6PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...d-DOJ-to-prosecute-the-New-York-Times
Description: Throughout the tenure of George W. Bush, many of us to the left of center warned that unchecked presidential power was putting Americans' civil liberties in jeopardy. Now with the revelations that the Obama Justice Department seized AP phone records in one leak case and monitored a reporter's communications in another, some on the right are finally furious about infringements of our First and Fourth amendment rights. Apparently, all it took for this belated conservative change of heart was a Dem... read more »
Boy Scouts To Allow Gay Scouts, But Not Gay Scout Leaders
Published: Thursday May 23rd 7PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...-gay-scouts-but-not-gay-scout-leaders
Description: Zach Wahls announces the founding of Scouts for Equality Faced with the terrible, horrible, wrenching decision of whether to quit encouraging bigotry and allow gay scouts and scout leaders, the Boy Scouts decided to cut the baby in half and allow gay scouts, but not gay scout leaders: I ve waited 13 years for this, said Matt Comer, now 27, who was forced out of his scout troop at age 14 after he started a Gay-Straight Alliance at his school. Since the fourth grade, he said Thursday, he had dream... read more »
In 'seismic Shift,' Primary Care Physicians Creating Revenue For Hospitals
Published: Monday May 20th 5PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...icians-creating-revenue-for-hospitals
Description: Here's another shift in health care to go along with shrinking rate of growth in health care spending over the last few years: For the first time, primary care doctors are driving more revenue on a per/physician basis for hospitals than specialists. That's the finding in a new survey of hospital financial officers by physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins.For 2013, the median revenue per primary care physician ascribed by about 3,000 hospital chief financial officers is nearly 1.6 million, an... read more »
Cleared Of Charges After Explosion, Florida Teen Gets Full Scholarship To Space Academy
Published: Thursday May 23rd 10AM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...n-gets-full-scholarship-to-space-camp
Description: By now you've heard about Kiera Wilmot. She's the Florida teen who was arrested for setting off a small explosion in her science class:Kiera, 16-year-old junior, was arrested after the incident, which happened outside about 15 minutes before the school day began. No one was hurt, nor did she cause any damage.The school's resource officer arrested her on two possible felony charges, possessing a weapon on campus and discharging a destructive device. Kiera was suspended for 10 days, sent to an alt... read more »
Tennessee Now Evenly Split On Marriage Equality; Nearly 2/3 Support Benefits To Same-sex Partners
Published: Wednesday May 22nd 1PM
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013...support-benefits-to-same-sex-partners
Description: It's going to take a while, but the trends are clear:A poll conducted this month for Vanderbilt University found that 49 percent of Tennesseans support gay marriage or civil unions while 46 percent are opposed to both, suggesting the state is now evenly divided on whether to extend legal recognition to same-sex couples.Meanwhile, 62 percent of Tennesseans say health insurance and other employee benefits should be extended to the domestic partners or spouses of gays and lesbians. Thirty-one perce... read more »