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Gas prices drop below key threshold
Excerpts from an article by Steve Benen Remember the 2012 presidential campaign? It was just two years ago that Mitt Romney boasted that if he were elected president, he’d “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower” by the end of his first...
Governor McAuliffe Announces $28 Million in Funding for New Voting Machines across Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of Governor Terry McAuliffe FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 15, 2014 Office of the Governor Contact: Rachel Thomas Email: rachel.thomas@governor.virginia.gov Governor McAuliffe Announces $28 Million in Funding for New Voting...
“Nothing stops a bullet like a job.”
A couple of years ago, the city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for teenagers attending high schools in some of the city's high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. The program was meant, of course, to connect students to work. But officials also hoped that it...
Action Alert: Omnibus Spending Bill
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/910006762345254 Kaine, Tim - (D - VA) 388 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-4024 Contact: http://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA) 475 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC...
John McCain Calls Out the Torture Apologists
There was considerable misinformation disseminated then about what was and wasn't achieved using these methods in an effort to discourage support for the legislation. There was a good amount of misinformation used in 2011 to credit the use of methods with the death of...
Two Americas
"If you're black and driving in Beverly Hills with one headlight, you better be on a motorcycle." Red Foxx
Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty
An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly...
Boehner Drops Obama Lawsuit; Says It Would Mean Doing Something
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dropped his plans to sue President Obama on Friday, explaining to reporters, “I realized it would mean doing something.” In a brief appearance before the press, Speaker Boehner talked about his...
Texas Public Schools Teaching Kids That Jews Practice ‘Flawed Religion’ and that Blacks Are ‘Descended from Ham’
A religious studies professor found instances of students learning a literal interpretation of the Bible. A report put out by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund reveals that in some Texas public schools, classes on the Bible's impact on history are being taught...
