“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were [...]
And many thanks for this simple truth:
“We loved each other and got married,” she told The Washington Evening Star in 1965, when the case was pending. “We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants.”
From Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967):
In June 1958, two residents of [...]
Why do we allow speculators to raise the price of commodities like food and oil by betting on how expensive those same commodities are going to be in the future?
Doesn’t that seem a bit suicidal, like betting against yourself, doubling down each time?
India may be on the right track: India considers suspending trade in food [...]
There are some sick fucks in this country with some serious entitlement issues:
Officials are investigating the deaths of six sea lions who appear to have been shot Sunday after climbing onto traps in the Columbia River.
Wildlife officials said that the bodies of the sea lions were discovered at noon Sunday on two floating traps just [...]
We all have stories like this:
My friend L. recently quit a high-pressure job after 20 years to help her husband out in his solo architecture practice. She had insurance for herself, her husband and the kids through her job, so after resigning she paid for COBRA while she waited for her family to be [...]
Q [Helen Thomas] How does the President intend to commemorate “Mission Accomplished” after five years of death and destruction?
MS. PERINO: What you’re referring to is the banner that ran — that was aboard the ship five years ago. President Bush –
Q I’m talking about the anniversary tomorrow.
MS. PERINO: Yes, I get — no, I understand. [...]
Hooray, hooray - the First of May
Outdoor f*cking begins today!
At least for the critters. Here in the Pac NW it’s still a bit too cold & wet.
Enjoy your May revels, wherever you are.
Sphere: Related Content
Al Qaida’s back in pre-9/11 fighting form, operating without fear or restraint along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border with the tacit support of Pakistan’s ISI, but somehow Iran is the world’s “most active” state sponsor of terrorism according to BushCo:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida has rebuilt some of its pre-Sept. 11 capabilities from remote hiding places in [...]
and not black boxes that can be hacked but not audited, right?
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws. [...]
April 25, 2008 – 11:36 am
As a person who works in the maritime industry, which is pretty conservative, this is cool*:
THE ILWU West Coast longshore workers have voted to “stop work to protest the US war and occupation on Iraq and Afghanistan on May Day 2008,” the ILWU said. All 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be [...]
April 25, 2008 – 10:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.
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Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a seedy [...]
Instead of hanging out by the 7-11 writing speeding tickets, could you please do something about the scrap haulers driving their teetering and shedding loads up Hwy 30, across the St. Johns Bridge and over to Schnitzer?
Case in point, my ruined commute last night:
Some of these guys (and gals), with their jerry-rigged trailers filled with [...]
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