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September 23, 2016
Adele M. Stan AlterNet 23 SEP 2016 AT 00:50 ET
1. Opposes federal guarantees for student loans.
2. Opposes virtually all forms of gun control.
3. Opposes the minimum wage.
4. Opposes equal-pay laws.
5. Opposes collective bargaining for public employees.
6. Proposes cuts to Social Security and removing Medicare and Medicaid from federal control.
7. Supports private prisons.
8. Gave a sole-bidder contract to Koch Industries.
9. May have Koch backing for 2016 effort.
10. Uses dirty tricksters.
11. Accepted $1 million in PAC money from anti-education right-wing donor.
12. Top corporate contributor slapped with $1.5 million pollution fine.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/here-are-12-ways-gary-johnson-is-a-hardcore-right-wing-radical/
Here are 12 ways Gary Johnson is a hardcore right-wing radical
Here are 12 ways Gary Johnson is a hardcore right-wing radicalAdele M. Stan AlterNet 23 SEP 2016 AT 00:50 ET
1. Opposes federal guarantees for student loans.
2. Opposes virtually all forms of gun control.
3. Opposes the minimum wage.
4. Opposes equal-pay laws.
5. Opposes collective bargaining for public employees.
6. Proposes cuts to Social Security and removing Medicare and Medicaid from federal control.
7. Supports private prisons.
8. Gave a sole-bidder contract to Koch Industries.
9. May have Koch backing for 2016 effort.
10. Uses dirty tricksters.
11. Accepted $1 million in PAC money from anti-education right-wing donor.
12. Top corporate contributor slapped with $1.5 million pollution fine.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/here-are-12-ways-gary-johnson-is-a-hardcore-right-wing-radical/
September 23, 2016
By Marshall Cohen, CNN Updated 6:26 AM ET, Fri September 23, 2016
Early numbers from Iowa and North Carolina, where voters are already casting absentee ballots, look promising for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
And Democrats have also improved their position on the voter rolls in Colorado and Florida, outpacing Republicans in the past month, according to a CNN analysis of newly released statistics.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/voter-registration-north-carolina-florida-democrats/index.html?sr=fbpol092316voter-registration-north-carolina-florida-democrats1132AMVODtopLink&linkId=29115562
Newest absentee, registration numbers promising for Clinton
Newest absentee, registration numbers promising for ClintonBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Updated 6:26 AM ET, Fri September 23, 2016
Early numbers from Iowa and North Carolina, where voters are already casting absentee ballots, look promising for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
And Democrats have also improved their position on the voter rolls in Colorado and Florida, outpacing Republicans in the past month, according to a CNN analysis of newly released statistics.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/voter-registration-north-carolina-florida-democrats/index.html?sr=fbpol092316voter-registration-north-carolina-florida-democrats1132AMVODtopLink&linkId=29115562
September 23, 2016
By James Surowiecki , SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
In most respects, Wednesday’s congressional hearing into Mylan Corp.’s steep price increases on the EpiPen followed an all-too-familiar script. Mylan’s C.E.O., Heather Bresch, was berated by legislators for the price hikes, and for her $18.9-million pay package.
Bresch tried, feebly, to explain that Mylan doesn’t actually make that much money from the EpiPen, and was careful never to offer the only real explanation for why the product costs six times as much as it did in 2007, namely that the company kept raising prices because it could.
The politicians got their soundbites. Bresch got to state her case. And, at day’s end, nothing meaningful had changed.
As Representative Elijah Cummings accurately put it in his opening statement, “The industry will take their punches. But then they go right ahead and keep raising their prices.”
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-the-maker-of-the-epipen-made-government-its-ally?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
How the Maker of the Epipen Made Government its Ally
How the Maker of the Epipen Made Government its AllyBy James Surowiecki , SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
In most respects, Wednesday’s congressional hearing into Mylan Corp.’s steep price increases on the EpiPen followed an all-too-familiar script. Mylan’s C.E.O., Heather Bresch, was berated by legislators for the price hikes, and for her $18.9-million pay package.
Bresch tried, feebly, to explain that Mylan doesn’t actually make that much money from the EpiPen, and was careful never to offer the only real explanation for why the product costs six times as much as it did in 2007, namely that the company kept raising prices because it could.
The politicians got their soundbites. Bresch got to state her case. And, at day’s end, nothing meaningful had changed.
As Representative Elijah Cummings accurately put it in his opening statement, “The industry will take their punches. But then they go right ahead and keep raising their prices.”
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-the-maker-of-the-epipen-made-government-its-ally?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
September 23, 2016
By Amber Phillips September 22 at 9:09 PM
Some of those who have come onto the streets of Charlotte over the past two days say they want justice for what they say is the wrongful police killing of a black man in the city this week. Others say they want more respect — from the police, from politicians, from everyone. Some say they just want to be heard, whatever that may mean to them. The reasons are varied — but there is simply no sign that all of these protesters, who are overwhelmingly black, have come because they hate white people.
That's exactly what Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) said in an interview with BBC News on Thursday evening, when asked what the protesters' grievances are. "The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger," he said. "They hate white people, because white people are successful and they're not."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/22/gop-congressman-north-carolina-protesters-hate-white-people/
GOP congressman: North Carolina protesters ‘hate white people’
GOP congressman: North Carolina protesters ‘hate white people’By Amber Phillips September 22 at 9:09 PM
Some of those who have come onto the streets of Charlotte over the past two days say they want justice for what they say is the wrongful police killing of a black man in the city this week. Others say they want more respect — from the police, from politicians, from everyone. Some say they just want to be heard, whatever that may mean to them. The reasons are varied — but there is simply no sign that all of these protesters, who are overwhelmingly black, have come because they hate white people.
That's exactly what Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) said in an interview with BBC News on Thursday evening, when asked what the protesters' grievances are. "The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger," he said. "They hate white people, because white people are successful and they're not."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/22/gop-congressman-north-carolina-protesters-hate-white-people/
September 22, 2016
No matter what happens in November, the sickness may be terminal.
GARRETT EPPS SEP 20, 2016
In less than two months, the American experiment in constitutional self-government may hit the wall of history. Even if the disaster of a Trump presidency is averted, this fall’s presidential campaign suggests that the United States Constitution is gravely, perhaps terminally, ill.
Trumpism is the symptom, not the cause, of the malaise. I think we have for some time been living in the post-Constitution era. America’s fundamental law remains and will remain important as a source of litigation. But the nation seems to have turned away from a search of values in the Constitution, regarding it instead as a set of annoying rules.
A Trump victory would render the Constitution as toothless as the Statuto Albertino of 1848 after Mussolini’s March on Rome. That’s not because Trump proposes violating this or that provision; it is because, to him and his followers, the Constitution is simply nonexistent.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trumpism-is-the-symptom-of-a-gravely-ill-constitution/500831/
Trumpism Is the Symptom of a Gravely Ill Constitution
Trumpism Is the Symptom of a Gravely Ill ConstitutionNo matter what happens in November, the sickness may be terminal.
GARRETT EPPS SEP 20, 2016
In less than two months, the American experiment in constitutional self-government may hit the wall of history. Even if the disaster of a Trump presidency is averted, this fall’s presidential campaign suggests that the United States Constitution is gravely, perhaps terminally, ill.
Trumpism is the symptom, not the cause, of the malaise. I think we have for some time been living in the post-Constitution era. America’s fundamental law remains and will remain important as a source of litigation. But the nation seems to have turned away from a search of values in the Constitution, regarding it instead as a set of annoying rules.
A Trump victory would render the Constitution as toothless as the Statuto Albertino of 1848 after Mussolini’s March on Rome. That’s not because Trump proposes violating this or that provision; it is because, to him and his followers, the Constitution is simply nonexistent.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trumpism-is-the-symptom-of-a-gravely-ill-constitution/500831/
September 22, 2016
Bill would allow poll watchers from outside the district.
09/22/2016 02:24 am ET Ed Mazza Overnight Editor
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are trying to quickly push through a measure to would allow people from outside a voting district to watch over voters.
The bill would take effect in time for this year’s presidential election in a state where Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he will be the victim of voter fraud. He has provided no evidence to back that accusation.
Raging Chicken Press, a progressive website focused on Pennsylvania politics, reported that the bill was being swiftly pushed through the state’s GOP-controlled House of Representatives. The bill would “allow Trump supporters from around the state to ‘watch’ over the polls in minority communities throughout the state,” the website noted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-voter-intimidation_us_57e34b46e4b08d73b82f93af?ir=Politics&utm_hp_ref=politics
GOP-Backed Poll-Watching Measure Sparks Voter Intimidation Fears In Pennsylvania
GOP-Backed Poll-Watching Measure Sparks Voter Intimidation Fears In PennsylvaniaBill would allow poll watchers from outside the district.
09/22/2016 02:24 am ET Ed Mazza Overnight Editor
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are trying to quickly push through a measure to would allow people from outside a voting district to watch over voters.
The bill would take effect in time for this year’s presidential election in a state where Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he will be the victim of voter fraud. He has provided no evidence to back that accusation.
Raging Chicken Press, a progressive website focused on Pennsylvania politics, reported that the bill was being swiftly pushed through the state’s GOP-controlled House of Representatives. The bill would “allow Trump supporters from around the state to ‘watch’ over the polls in minority communities throughout the state,” the website noted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-voter-intimidation_us_57e34b46e4b08d73b82f93af?ir=Politics&utm_hp_ref=politics
September 22, 2016
ByALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published SEPTEMBER 22, 2016, 6:37 AM EDT
Glenn Reynolds, a conservative USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor, was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday for urging drivers to hit protesters blocking a highway in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Twitter suspended his account shortly after the tweet went up and outraged commenters accused Reynolds, who also runs the Instapundit website, of inciting violence. Several users preserved screenshots of the tweet.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-reynolds-instapundit-suspended-urging-motorists-hit-protesters-charlotte?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
Conservative USA Today Columnist On Charlotte Protesters: ‘Run Them Down’
Conservative USA Today Columnist On Charlotte Protesters: ‘Run Them Down’ByALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published SEPTEMBER 22, 2016, 6:37 AM EDT
Glenn Reynolds, a conservative USA Today columnist and University of Tennessee law professor, was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday for urging drivers to hit protesters blocking a highway in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Twitter suspended his account shortly after the tweet went up and outraged commenters accused Reynolds, who also runs the Instapundit website, of inciting violence. Several users preserved screenshots of the tweet.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/glenn-reynolds-instapundit-suspended-urging-motorists-hit-protesters-charlotte?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
September 22, 2016
“Any politician who would go to a black community and say stop-and-frisk is the solution to your problems is showing no respect for the intellectual capacity of that community,” Jeff Robinson, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union and a policing expert for the organization, told The Daily Beast.
“[Mr. Trump’s] message here is that in order to save the black community, we must destroy it," he continued. "I don’t know if Mr. Trump has ever been stopped and frisked by the police, but this concept that, ‘Oh, it’s just a nice, little friendly conversation...and it’s nothing to get upset about,’ that’s a concept that people who have never been through a stop-and-frisk experience with a police officer would think. Any politician who would suggest this as a solution has a serious credibility problem.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/09/21/trump-i-d-use-stop-and-frisk-to-end-violence-in-black-communities.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
Trump: I’d Use ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ to End Violence in Black Communities
Trump: I’d Use ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ to End Violence in Black Communities“Any politician who would go to a black community and say stop-and-frisk is the solution to your problems is showing no respect for the intellectual capacity of that community,” Jeff Robinson, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union and a policing expert for the organization, told The Daily Beast.
“[Mr. Trump’s] message here is that in order to save the black community, we must destroy it," he continued. "I don’t know if Mr. Trump has ever been stopped and frisked by the police, but this concept that, ‘Oh, it’s just a nice, little friendly conversation...and it’s nothing to get upset about,’ that’s a concept that people who have never been through a stop-and-frisk experience with a police officer would think. Any politician who would suggest this as a solution has a serious credibility problem.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/09/21/trump-i-d-use-stop-and-frisk-to-end-violence-in-black-communities.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
September 21, 2016
Travis Gettys 20 SEP 2016 AT 10:14 ET
An anti-vaccine mother explained how she changed her mind on inoculation after her own children became seriously ill from an easily prevented virus.
Kristen O’Meara told the New York Post how she sought out anti-vax books and websites to support her belief that vaccines were linked to autism, allergies and ADHD, and she found a pediatrician who was willing to let her skip vaccinations for her three children.
“I got absorbed in the anti-vax culture and secretly thought of myself as being superior to others,” O’Meara said. “Parents who vaccinated didn’t have my special investigative skills. As far as I was concerned, they didn’t stop to question and were just sheep following the herd.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/anti-vaxx-mom-abandons-the-movement-after-all-three-of-her-kids-nearly-die-from-rotavirus/
Anti-vaxx mom abandons the movement after all three of her kids nearly die from rotavirus
Anti-vaxx mom abandons the movement after all three of her kids nearly die from rotavirusTravis Gettys 20 SEP 2016 AT 10:14 ET
An anti-vaccine mother explained how she changed her mind on inoculation after her own children became seriously ill from an easily prevented virus.
Kristen O’Meara told the New York Post how she sought out anti-vax books and websites to support her belief that vaccines were linked to autism, allergies and ADHD, and she found a pediatrician who was willing to let her skip vaccinations for her three children.
“I got absorbed in the anti-vax culture and secretly thought of myself as being superior to others,” O’Meara said. “Parents who vaccinated didn’t have my special investigative skills. As far as I was concerned, they didn’t stop to question and were just sheep following the herd.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/anti-vaxx-mom-abandons-the-movement-after-all-three-of-her-kids-nearly-die-from-rotavirus/
September 19, 2016
Christopher Ingraham September 19 at 12:12 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/19/just-three-percent-of-adults-own-half-of-americas-guns/
Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns
Just three percent of adults own half of America’s gunsChristopher Ingraham September 19 at 12:12 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/19/just-three-percent-of-adults-own-half-of-americas-guns/
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