Women who have visited almost any abortion clinic in the United States have seen anti-choice protesters outside, wielding placards and chanting abuse. A Boston advertiser’s technology, when deployed by anti-choice groups, allows those groups to send propaganda directly to a woman’s phone while she is in a clinic waiting room.
…“You can grab an uncomfortable amount of information from someone’s device and the apps they use,” said Solis. “It’s unfortunate, but any woman who plans to visit an affected Planned Parenthood, or anyone who works for Planned Parenthood, should be afraid.”
In the eyes of some, Asians in America are, Lee writes, “perpetual foreigners at worst, or probationary Americans at best.” If Asians sometimes remain silent in the face of racism, and if some seem to work unusually hard in the face of this difficult history, it is not because they want to be part of a “model minority” but because they have often had no other choice.
The political lovefest between Tommy Chong and Bernie Sanders looks like it might be going up in smoke, as the comedian complained Monday that the campaign had rescinded its invitation to have him speak at a Los Angeles rally.
Heh, backed the wrong horse there, bub. Besides, you were being used. He’d never enact legalization anyways, even if snowballs flourished in hell and he did have the power.
KNOXVILLE – A three-day operation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and detectives with the Knoxville Police Department to combat human trafficking in Knoxville has resulted in the arrest of 32 men and women on prostitution and human trafficking-related charges. Two of the men, including a children’s minister, responded to ads for what they thought were girls under the age of 18.
Yet despite the growing evidence that four-year college programs serve fewer and fewer of our students, states continue to cut vocational programs. ….The justification, of course, is budgetary; these programs (which include auto body technology, aviation maintenance, audio production, real estate and photography) are expensive to operate. But in a situation where 70% of high school students do not go to college, nearly half of those who do go fail to graduate, and over half of the graduates are unemployed or underemployed, is vocational education really expendable?
…The U.S. economy has changed. The manufacturing sector is growing and modernizing, creating a wealth of challenging, well-paying, highly skilled jobs for those with the skills to do them. The demise of vocational education at the high school level has bred a skills shortage in manufacturing today, and with it a wealth of career opportunities for both under-employed college grads and high school students looking for direct pathways to interesting, lucrative careers. Many of the jobs in manufacturing are attainable through apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and vocational programs offered at community colleges. They don’t require expensive, four-year degrees for which many students are not suited.
Although I think the point could be better made by focusing on costs of tuition and student loan debt instead of the dubiously worded, “not suited” concern, this is issue is an important consideration looking forward.
This is a discipline problem and the brass needs to weed it out and eliminate it, yesterday. Not ignore it. Not sweep it under the rug. Not confuse it with normal behavior but come down hard and fast and make it very clear it will not be tolerated in the United States military.
There is a direct line from these types of unacceptable breakdowns in military discipline and the problems we are having negotiating base locations with countries like Japan right now.
Anything other that completely eradicating this behavior is a grievous dereliction of duty on the part of military brass.
Ken Starr, the special prosecutor who authored the famous report that graphically detailed Clinton’s sexual misconduct…
…is about to be fired from that position because of his failure to investigate sexual abuse allegations made against football players in the university.
Yeah, yeah, yeah… More of my royal watcher postings!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what makes these people any different than any non-royal? Well, frankly, nothing. Life is not an evenly just place. Some people get better dealt better and more lucrative hands than others. Which is not to say we shouldn’t strive for equality or raising people up; quite the opposite! It is just to say that is where we start. What each person does with his or her hand matters just as much as the luck of the draw.
To be clear, I have no nostalgia for actual (i.e non-figurehead/ceremonial) rulers being chosen by birth or – even worse – by violent military clashes between clans. I do think that having a visible monarchy in some parts of the world is a valuable legacy and window into our collective past though. It’s like an ever present history lesson or something…
If we can assume for the moment, that there is and should be a British monarchy, isn’t it nice that Diana’s sons are leading the monarchy into the future with such a keen eye for ways to improve conditions for those less fortunate than themselves? (Seriously, wouldn’t it be nice if ALL scions and heirs to great wealth and power acted that way!!!)
OK, all of my justify and posturing out of the way, Harry comes off as such a mensch here… Finding ways to serve the military that he is prevented from making his career in that very few others would have the ability or inclination to carry out….
Can you just imagine a world where people like Paris Hilton and Ivanka Trump shared the same sense of duty? Sigh…
A San Francisco police sergeant shot and killed a 27-year-old woman in a suspected stolen car Thursday. ….The Police Department’s current policy prohibits officers from firing at a moving vehicle except when an occupant is threatening the officer with “imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury,” and the officer has no way to retreat.
Of course there was no threat to the officers. And of course they decided to execute her for disrespecting them. It’s great the Chief resigned. Next step? Arrest, convict, and imprison the offending officers for Murder One.
Who is awarded tenure in the competitive environment of contemporary colleges and universities is one of the more hotly contested issues in academe today.
…all this bluster only serves to demonstrate a lack of understanding of who the super delegates are and why the chance of them switching from Clinton to Sanders is less likely than Knicks president Phil Jackson abandoning the triangle offense.
…It was a failsafe strategy designed to ensure the nomination of electable candidates; to prevent a candidate precisely like like Bernie Sanders—an independent, socialist outsider who’s not part of the Democratic machine—from winning the nomination.
The real rub here is that Sanders himself knows all this. Yet he continues to fan the flames of anger and resentment, amping up his rhetoric of a “rigged system” where super delegates either don’t count and/or will magically propel him into the Oval Office despite there being absolutely no logical or historic basis for them to switch allegiance. It’s time that he share this reality with his supporters.
Maybe Hillary’s team played too rough. Maybe Bernie’s team is too thin-skinned. I just don’t know. But it’s sort of painful to see a good person like Bernie turned into such a sullen and resentful man. And doubly painful to see him take his followers down that path too.
Most things that happen in campaigns tell us something about people as politicians. This statement told us something about [the] Sanders [campaign] …as human beings. Everything is subordinated to ideology. Basic human impulses are buried. There is only politics, only ideology, only the movement.
…He is becoming a sputtering joke, a man who lost 58-42 and thought—really, truly thought, deep down in his kishkes—that it was stolen from him.
…It could still be different for him. If the Democrats take the Senate, he could have more power than he’s ever had, more power than he’s ever imagined. He could be chairman of the Budget Committee. Imagine. That’s power! As any Marxist knows, the budget is what it’s all about.
Determined to transform destroy the party, the senator is aiming to amass enough leverage to press his agenda at the convention — or even wrest the nomination.
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress, said that the Democratic primary ends in June, adding her voice to the growing calls in the party to unite behind one candidate ahead of the July convention.
Bernie Sanders does not care if destroys the only organization capable of stopping the Trump train as long as he never has to admit fault.
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