- Alabama to Undocumented Kids: No Prom For You! | Mother Jones
- SB 256, the "Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act," takes steps to block employers from hiring illegal immigrants, gives law enforcement more authority to check immigration status, requires voters to bring proof of citizenship with them to the polls—and prohibits "participation in any extracurricular activity outside of the basic course of study" for K-12 students who aren't legal residents. In other words, no chess club or drama society for the kids
- Open letter to the fashion industry. « Emily L. Hauser – In My Head
- I mention this because in the course of reading about last Friday’s big event, I discovered that you, the Fashion Industry, still use the word “nude” incorrectly. You still use it to mean “approximately the color of a white lady’s bum.”
Let me demonstrate.
- Why Meditation Relieves Chronic Pain and Stress | Lifehacker • by Melanie Pinola
- We've seen before that meditation can build up our brains and guard against information overload. Now new research shows how meditation works on our brains to help us focus more and possibly relieve chronic pain.
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- Yglesias » What Would A Free Market In Health Care Look Like?
- …if you want to assess the merits of “socialized medicine” it’s important to to recognize that a true free market in health care would look extremely different from what’s happening now. For one thing, in the absence of federal subsidies (most notably the exclusion of employer-provided health insurance from taxation) and regulation (things like continuity of coverage rules) private health insurance would be largely unavailable. But beyond that, the actual provision of health care services is one of the most government-dominated spheres of the economy:…
- ThinkProgress » Tonight’s GOP Pre-Debate Rally Sponsored By Extremists: John Birch Society And The Oath Keepers – By Judd Legum on May 5th, 2011
- Are Tim Pawlenty and the other candidates at tonight’s debate aligning themselves with the extreme views of these groups?
- ThinkProgress » Profits At Largest 500 Corporations Grew By 81 Percent In 2010
- At the same time, corporate tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is lower than it has been in years, meaning that not only is the wealth not trickling down, but that these big firms are also becoming less and less likely to pay their fair share.
- Obama the socialist. Or something. « Russ’ Filtered News – July 21, 2010 / Russell King
- …there are a great many things our educational system fails to teach, and both the definition of socialism and our nation’s own political history are among them.
…let’s take a look at how well the “Obama is a socialist” assertion fits with the real world.
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- Is there a difference today between war and peace? | Politifact.com
- We asked a variety of military historians and foreign-affairs experts, and their consensus was that it’s finally time for politicians to bury all rhetorical distinctions between "wartime" and "peacetime."
We started by doing our own math, comparing periods of traditional war and peace in recent decades. …
Prior to World War II, the United States typically demobilized its military forces once a war was concluded, leaving only a small number of personnel on active duty. If a new war emerged, the military ramped up again, often through use of the draft.
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