Fortunately, the imminent win for the heavily state-subsidized for-proft education industry in the House is unlikely to result in new legislation for now. But the lobbying muscle of for-profit education is pretty formidable and the risk of a bad law eventually passing is considerable.
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It probably goes without saying that the recent discovery by Republicans that once a party has won an election it should be able to pass any legislation it wants without.
As noted here, Facebook's relationship status options now include civil unions and domestic partnerships. A long overdue change. But I still think "it's complicated" should be a cross-cutting category.
"First you liked him then you stopped liking him, then you liked someone else, now you like him again? Girls make no sense." Yep, well neither do Republican Congresspersons.
I know I shouldn't grasp at fruit hung so low, but the offers of the folk over at a place I'll link to shortly are mighty tempting fare. Just the.
Talking Points Memo is doing some great reporting on Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's odious little stunt, whereby he essentially committed arson and then announced he needed to get rid of.
Rob's post inspired me to look up the WHO report on drinking in the USA, and to do some quick calculations. According to this data, American adults (defined as people over 15) consume slightly less than two drinks per day per capita. This is using...
Uh, good? The "it's so distasteful to respond to political threats by raising money" argument becomes particularly bizarre when you have a long memory about High Contrarian Discourse about abortion..
In a public-service-minded attempt to hone our skills for the zombie outbreak due any day, Bloggingheads has embedded a zombie-detection tutorial within this diavlog: Win a copy of “Theories of.
This seems like an appropriate solution to Supreme Court decisions preventing restrictions on judicial fundraising: New York’s top court officials will bar the state’s hundreds of elected judges from hearing cases involving lawyers and others who make significant contributions to their campaigns, a move that...
Looks like the atrocious South Dakota "jutsifiable homicide" bill has been shelved, with even the governor noting that whatever the voices in Jensen's head say passing a statute whose langauge.
As someone who wrote a dissertation entitled "Maximal Diversity: Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory in American Fiction, 1895-1910," I can't help but lend my full support to this bill: Oklahoma state Rep..