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Religious leaders, who are all, “I don’t want the Affordable Care Act and its free birth control pills to ruin my church-going ladies”: you’re in for a rude awakening. Because (some of) those ladies are like, fuck yes, give me the free pills. Via The Atlantic: But what about religiously-affiliated women? Where were their voices…
The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is never interred—or at least that enough of it is available for later historians to dig up the whole. The age is impoverished in both respects. Christian Appy, an accomplished historian of…
The New York Times “First Draft” and Politico Playbook picked up the “Meerkat Election” idea today, so get ready for the hype cycle to wash through the commentariat. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush “meerkatted” yesterday — which is to say, used an app integrated with Twitter on his smartphone to livestream an event online. If…
According to a new Wall Street Journal /NBC News Poll, the voters who will pick the next Republican presidential nominee will likely be overwhelmingly white. In the poll, 95 percent of the respondents who said they were GOP primary voters were white. Remarkably, this is even less racially diverse than the American population as a whole…
Source: en.wikipedia.org Added March 18, 2015 at 7:35 a.m. OUR SOURCES US sets new record for denying, censoring government files US sets new record for denying federal files under Freedom of Information Act Close We actually do have a lot to brag about. – Josh Earnest White House spokesman According to the AP, the government…
story functions js ISIS today claimed responsibility for the Wednesday massacre at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia that killed 22 people, many of them Western tourists, and the two attackers. In a 3 minute, 10 second audio message disseminated on twitter accounts associated with ISIS, the terror group said that the two dead gunmen, who…
UVA Problems / TwitterA black University of Virginia student was grabbed by cops outside a bar in Charlottesville late Wednesday night and thrown to the ground. He hit his head, suffering an injury that required 10 stitches, according to The Huffington Post. Cell phone pictures and videos of the incident show the student, Martese Johnson, pinned…
I never took an AP course in high school. I’m pretty sure it was because I never qualified for it (I went straight B-minuses throughout my high school career), but it was also because I went to school back when taking AP courses wasn’t the dire necessity that it is for today’s students. According tothis…
Chris Martino/Flickr Civil liberties advocates are adding another strike to the Obama administration’s record on transparency: on Monday, the White House announced that it is officially ending the Freedom of Information Act obligations of its Office of Administration. That office provides broad administrative support to the White House—including the archiving of emails—and had been subject…
Head to your nearest pharmacy and grab a sympathy card for RNC chairman Reince Priebus: Conservative media celebrity Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that he’s leaving the Republican Party. “I’ve made my decision – I’m out. I’m out of the Republican Party,” the founder of The Blaze announced on his radio show. “I am not a…