February 2012
Why Don’t We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About... →
Seven. What is a living wage in the US?
Dr. Amy Glasmeier of Penn State University has created a Living Wage Calculator that estimates the hourly wage needed to pay the cost of living for low wage families in the US. It breaks down the cost of living by state and locality across the nation. In New Orleans, a mom with one child needs to earn $17.52 to make ends meet. In New York, the mom...
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Watchdrst:
The beltway pundit class says the White House is in trouble on this. Reality check, guys, okay? Where the white house is on this issue is here. Hey, women of America, under a Democratic president your birth control pills will be covered by health insurance, and if you don’t have health insurance you can go to a clinic and get subsidized birth control there. If a republican is elected your...
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Something I don't think some tumblrcators and...
girlwithalessonplan:
No. Really. You can’t teach the unwilling.
Here are options in my speech class:
Pick your topic, whatever you want as long as it fits the genre of speech (persuasive, narrative, etc.)
Research it however you want, either with print or web
Show me some progress points as you work
Make whatever kind of visual aid you want
Choose the day you want to give it
I’m here...
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“The financial services industry went from having a 19 percent share of America’s...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
“The end of a president’s first term is an important time to ask these questions,...”
– Obama, Explained - Magazine - The Atlantic
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From Good to Great: Obama’s America that is built...
corporatedem:
In his third State of the Union address, President Obama laid out a stark contrast and choice between his vision for the country and the vision, or lack thereof, espoused from the Republican presidential candidates. The president seemed to be channeling a bit of author and business school mogul Jim Collins in his speech, using the theme of an America that is built to last with the...
Why did the face of Boe not go to the party?
doctorwho:
doctorwho4eva:
Because he had no body to go with.
#funny #joke
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“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today,...”
– Rick Santorum takes “war on religion” to a whole new level. (via kileyrae)
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"Walking the fine line between “Hollywood... →
ohrohin:
Miles Klee gives you 11 reasons to love his writing in Vanity Fair today.
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“The Republican candidates all claim to be devout Christians. But between the...”
– Jesus versus the GOP (via azspot)
Jail Time Added to Anti-Occupy Nashville Bill;... →
occupynashville:
The bill to evict Occupy Nashville kept rolling through the legislature today, winning easy approval in the House Judiciary Committee. But first, lawmakers rubbed it in by jacking up the penalty for violations. Now if you’re caught in a tent on the Legislative Plaza or under a bridge or anywhere else on public property where camping isn’t permitted in Tennessee, you could go to...
House votes to give Obama limited line-item veto |... →
The House of Representatives voted to give President Barack Obama a limited line-item veto authority on Wednesday in a rare display of bipartisanship on bitterly divisive spending and budget issues.
The House voted 254-173, with 57 Democrats joining Republicans in favoring the bill, which allows the president to propose elimination of individual items in spending legislation and subject...
“We are a democracy. We can only have as good a foreign policy as the public’s...”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, told PBS NewsHour last night. (via absurdlakefront)
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“Running for President of the United States is really one series of humiliations...”
– Michele Bachmann Cracks Jokes At CPAC 2012 (via brooklynmutt)
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Poll: 20% of Republicans leaning to Obama →
thegreg:
In every case except the match-up against Ron Paul, more than 20 percent of Republican voters said they are more likely to support Obama than the Republican challenger. And Ron Paul is close, as 19 percent of Republicans said they are more likely to support Obama than Paul.
Making the situation more bleak for opponents of Obama, independent voters are apparently quite put off with...
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CNN suspends Martin; not Loesch, Erickson -... →
brooklynmutt:
With its decision to suspend political contributor Roland Martin today for controversial statements he made on Twitter, CNN seems to have suggested that controversial comments made recently by other contributors — namely Dana Loesch and Erick Erickson — do not warrant the same punishment.
On her radio show, Loesch championed U.S. Marines for urinating on dead Taliban soldiers...
On this $26 billion dollar mortgage settlement
squashed:
Speaking tentatively, because I don’t have all the details I would like, I’m happy with this settlement. It’s huge. As in, it’s over three tines bigger than the huge tobacco settlement. Critically, it also preserves borrower’s rights to sue.
Here’s the bottom line: a dead bank on a platter doesn’t help anybody. Twenty-six billion in relief to struggling borrowers, however, is huge....
Evangelicals for Gay Marriage →
But instead, evangelicals seem to be very good at making sure people who are not Christians know that they are “breaking the rules” of Christianity. And as such, we have gained the reputation for being judgmental, a moniker well-deserved for the most part. It is God’s place to judge the world, it is our place to love it. And just like the story we find in Adam & Eve, when we put ourselves in...
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“One Planned Parenthood clinic does more in a day to prevent abortions than the...”
– Helen Philpot (via feminishblog)
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