Immigration Bill Gives GOP A Pounding Migraine
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, is a jovial sort, but he was scowling like a man who'd just discovered that he might have boarded the wrong bus. "How do we put together a bill and then the guy who put it together says that he may not vote for it?" Graham asked me. "I just don't get what we're doing here." His specific complaint: that GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a fellow member of the Senate "gang of eight" who had spent months drafting a bipartisan immigration refor[more]
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Immigration Bill Gives GOP A Pounding Migraine
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, is a jovial sort, but he was scowling like a man who'd just discovered that he might have boarded the wrong bus. "How do we put together a bill and then the guy who put it together says that he may not vote for it?" Graham asked me. "I just don't[read more]
Target to Remove GMOS From  Major Food Brands
Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to their shelves—one that is made with natural health in mind. Called Simply Balanced, the brand will be on shelves soon and will phase out genetically modified ingredients by the end of 2014. According to a press release[read more]
The Even Further Adventures Of The Free Market
Holy mother of god, there is absolutely no bottom to the barrel. Based in part on surreptitious tape recordings, an FBI affidavit lays out allegations that a Sacred Heart pulmonologist kept patients too sedated to breathe on their own, then ordered unneeded tracheotomies for them -- enabling the[read more]
North Carolina State Senator Calls ‘Moral Monday’ Protesters ‘Moral Morons’
“The appeal for each Moral Monday has been the same: urging legislators to govern for the good of the whole, rather than for the wealthy.” — Rev. William Barber. Since April, North Carolina citizens have been gathering at the state capital in Raleigh for “Moral Monday” rallies and acts[read more]
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By Eric W. Dolan Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) lashed out Tuesday night at Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for telling Congress the National Security Agency wasn’t amassing data on Americans. “What I’m saying is th[more]
By James Meikle, The Guardian More than 150 doctors, including from the US, have signed an open letter to Barack Obama, urging him to allow Guantánamo detainees access to independent medical examinations and advice. They have backed the plea [more]
By Eric W. Dolan Many users experienced an error message when trying to access the social networking website Facebook on Tuesday. Those who attempted to visit the popular site at approximately 6:00 pm ET were met with the error message: ̶[more]
By Agence France-Presse Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the obscure works of Nazi concentration camp inmates. But as the grandson of a Holocaust [more]
Immigration Bill Gives GOP A Pounding Migraine
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, is a jovial sort, but he was scowling like a man who'd just discovered that he might have boarded the wrong bus. "How do we put together a bill and then the guy who put it together says that he ma[more]