Tim Hudak, the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, suggests we take a look at privatizing liquor sales and gambling in Ontario. So, is this just another political bait and switch scheme or does he really intend to follow through and incorporate this into a future Tory election platform? …more here, Russ Campbell’s Blog: Privatize Liquor Sales and Gambling a Tory Bait and Switch?
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5) Fewer than 300 phone numbers were targeted in 2012.NSA officials say that even though the agency has access to Americans' phone records, it investigated fewer than 300 phone numbers connected to US citizens in 2012. The officials did not provide any detail on the number of email addresses targeted.
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At least 200 members of Sunflower Community Action were bused into Kobach's Kansas City-area neighborhood on Saturday - to protest his staunch anti-illegal alien views. "I was just appalled," Kobach told Fox News. "They have a right to protest at my office or at public places - that's fine. But they don't have a right to enter someone's private property and engage in this ...
More: McD's Worker Sues: Don't Pay by Debit Card - Philly.com All Natalie Gunshannon wanted was to be paid a fair wage for her work, she said. Gunshannon, 27, of Dallas Township, worked at McDonald's Restaurant on the Dallas Highway from April 24 to May 15. When she received her first paycheck, enclosed was a Chase Bank debit card with instructions on how to ...
Averages can be misleading. The familiar, one-dimensional story told about American education is that it was once the best system in the world but that now it’s headed down the drain, with piles of money thrown down after it. The truth is that there are two very different education stories in America. The children of the wealthiest 10 percent or so do receive some ...
That's a trend that the Idaho Republican Party wants to stop before it spreads to more towns. "I'd hire a gay guy if I thought he was a good worker," Rasor explained at the party's summer meeting, according to The Spokesman-Review. "But if he comes into work in a tutu ... he's not producing what I want in my office." "If a guy has ...
President Obama, through a White House policy statement, has threatened to veto the House's bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks if it reaches his desk. The White House responded to the likelihood that the House will pass the bill tomorrow with a veto threat. The Executive Office of the President put out a statement telling House Republicans that their abortion ban bill ...
Although America has made a lot of progress on several important fronts and is considered to be a relatively advanced, progressive, and civilized nation, these shocking graphs paint a very different picture (click to enlarge all graphs):
More: 'America the Great?' Maybe, but These Five Graphs Beg to Differ (IMAGES) -
. . . . that we do and relying on the fact that they need warrants to go back and look at the videos and you would never know about them because the warrants are issued in secret and it is against the law to even admit that the laws exist. Then, depending upon the fact that the Govt doesn't decide later, that something ...
Conservatives have been pressuring Boehner to adhere to the unwritten "Hastert Rule" -- named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) -- that says no bill should come to the House floor unless it has the backing of a majority of a chamber's majority party. Rohrabacher said if Boehner moves forward with a vote on immigration reform without a Republican majority, it would be a ...
More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a "modern-day plantation system," prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers. Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia, arresting nine owners and managers, and seized property, including ...
When Laura Gambrel, 22, of Zionsville, Ind., graduated from Indiana University in May, she wanted to keep the celebration pretty low key. She didn’t walk at the ceremony, nor did she have a party because she planned to go right back to the university this coming fall for grad school. It seemed only fitting then that the one thing her mother attempted to do ...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has taken the unusual step of actively blocking a former committee aide from talking to TPM about congressional oversight of the intelligence community. At issue isn't classified sources and methods of intelligence gathering but general information about how the committee functions -- and how it should function. The committee's refusal to allow former general counsel Vicki Divoll to ...
Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It's a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that unease can inspire snap judgments, rigid thinking, and bad decision-making. Fortunately, new research suggests a simple antidote for this affliction: Read more literary fiction. A trio of University of Toronto scholars, led by psychologist Maja Djikic, report that people who have just read a short ...
The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. The legislation expected to pass the Republican-controlled House as early as Tuesday has no chance of becoming law in the near future: The Democratic-led Senate will ignore it and the White House has issued a veto threat. ...
‘No matter how many settlers you put out there, the Palestinians are having more babies than the Israelis,’ former US president says Former US president Bill Clinton on Monday night urged Israel to work toward a two-state solution with the Palestinians, saying that he had never heard a credible alternative that would enable Israel to remain a Jewish and a democratic state. “No matter ...
Dye her hair blonde and she's got a job at Fox News. Question: "A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?" Marissa Powell: "I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are ... continuing to try ...
Pat Ferguson Hanson: I was working as a young diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece, in 1975 when CIA Station Chief Richard Welch was killed in front of his wife upon their return home from a staff Christmas party. I know firsthand something about security at our posts overseas, and I consider myself lucky to be alive. Before he was murdered, Welch ...
In February of last year a writer friend gave me a challenge. "Write a story for a two minute video". I came back with an idea. So what if a self sure man bought a haunted camera? I'm beginning to submit to the first few film festivals. For that reason the film will not be online for some time. There will be a limited ...
Jackson's money problems began back in 1985 when the Harvard-trained lawyer was living in Middlesex County, Mass., and was hit with a federal tax lien for failing to pay $3,000 since 1983, state records show. He paid off the IRS debt two years later, but his money troubles continued. In 1993, Jackson filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to federal court records. Among the ...
Here I stand hoping against hope that it's a chick with a low voice. -- At a concert in Beloit, Wisconsin 1968 or 69, when a guy in the audience yelled out, "Eat me Zappa".
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