Obamacare is working. Now's the time to start talking about making it better, by Joan McCarter We unlucky few: a look at the incumbents who lost their primaries, 1994-2012, by Darth Jeff The ghosts, joys and unexpected obsessions of seeing it live, by Laura Clawson Repeat after me: President. Obama. Is. Black. by Denise Oliver Velez The real IRS scandal that's costing Uncle Sam trillions, by Jon Perr Not this Chait again: or, hating Obama is part of the right's racial animus, by Dante Atkins Remember when the GOP was the patriotic, law and order party, by Mark E Andersen It’s time for the Alan Grayson health care narrative: 'Don’t get sick or die quickly,' by Egberto Willies Anything Russian 'in czarist times' is fair game in Putin's mind, by Ian Reifowitz
Jews Ordered to Register in Eastern Ukraine, by Timaeus Justice Stevens: Supreme Court has Misinterpreted the Second Amendment, by night cat Industry Expert Says StopRush Has Destroyed Limbaugh's Business For Good, by ProgLegs
Justice Stevens: Supreme Court has Misinterpreted the Second Amendment, by night cat
Industry Expert Says StopRush Has Destroyed Limbaugh's Business For Good, by ProgLegs
In thirteen years, they've spent $50 billion, building islands and pipelines and digging deep, some two and a half miles below the surface, to reach a so-called supergiant oil field where sour crude is mixed with toxic gas at ungodly pressures. In industry circles, Kashagan has become a watchword for massive complexity and near impossibility, and adopted an unofficial motto: "cash all gone."
The history of European colonization of the Americas is still evident today in most of the United States. This very cool map shows which ancestries make up the largest population in each of the country’s 3,144 counties. [...] The legacy of slavery still shows up in many rural Southern counties, where African Americans make up dominant slices of the population. Mexican Americans are dominant in border states, and in rural areas where agriculture is a big slice of the economy in places like eastern Washington and southern Idaho. And note those of non-Mexican Hispanic/Spanish origin in northern New Mexico. Those are the families who were in the United States before there was a United States. Or a Mexico, for that matter.
And note those of non-Mexican Hispanic/Spanish origin in northern New Mexico. Those are the families who were in the United States before there was a United States. Or a Mexico, for that matter.
Texas’s harsh anti-abortion law has claimed another victim, as a clinic in El Paso has been forced to immediately halt its abortion services. The Reproductive Services clinic attempted to seek an injunction against the provision of the law that requires abortion clinics to get admitting privileges from local hospitals—a medically unnecessary requirement that’s often impossible to meet—but a federal judge denied that request.
People of color are almost entirely absent from the top donor profile, and none more so than members of the community that white Americans enslaved for two centuries: While more than one-in-six Americans live in a neighborhood that is majority African-American or Hispanic, less than one-in-50 superlimit donors do. More than 90 percent of these elite donors live in neighborhoods with a greater concentration of non- Hispanic white residents than average. African-Americans are especially underrepresented. The median elite donor lives in a neighborhood where the African-American population counts for only 1.4 percent, nine times less than the national rate. In other words: Political money and hence influence at the top levels is disproportionately white, male, and with almost no social context that includes significant numbers of African Americans and other people of color.
While more than one-in-six Americans live in a neighborhood that is majority African-American or Hispanic, less than one-in-50 superlimit donors do. More than 90 percent of these elite donors live in neighborhoods with a greater concentration of non- Hispanic white residents than average. African-Americans are especially underrepresented. The median elite donor lives in a neighborhood where the African-American population counts for only 1.4 percent, nine times less than the national rate.
In other words: Political money and hence influence at the top levels is disproportionately white, male, and with almost no social context that includes significant numbers of African Americans and other people of color.
With her mother at her side, Ms. Clinton added, “I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.” [...] In September, CBS News asked [Bill] Clinton whether his wife would rather be president or grandmother. “I think she’d say grandmother,” he replied.
In September, CBS News asked [Bill] Clinton whether his wife would rather be president or grandmother. “I think she’d say grandmother,” he replied.
according to Roller Coaster Database, there are 2,956 roller coasters in 2,067 amusement parks worldwide, with nearly 400 million riders each year. How did these feats of engineering become so popular, and who are the people behind them?