Friday, November 29, 2013

Norton (RAT period-DC) Details Why Busting the Filibuster Was Essential + MORE

Norton (RAT period-DC) Details Why Busting the Filibuster Was Essential + MORE





Britain to give parents more time off after the birth of a child and more options on using their paternal leaveBritain announced on Friday final details of a plan enabling couples to share parental leave after the birth of their child in a bid to help working mothers and give fathers more time with their children. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the proposals “challenge the old-fashioned…

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**SNIP** “Filibustering a sitting member of Congress for the first time in 150 years is an insult to a colleague and, in the case of Representative Mel Watt, is a hit in the gut to the African American community. Once a president is elected, he is entitled to his choice of executives to implement the policies he had promised to carry out if elected…

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Perhaps nothing is more emblematic of the frustration Americans felt during the October government shutdown, which cost the economy an estimated $24 billion, than the furor over the shuttering of more than 400 federal national parks. Republicans accused Democrats of keeping veterans from seeing the World War II monument in Washington, DC…


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How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme—Again

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.


You can hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about the nation’s impressive, much celebrated housing recovery. Home prices are rising! New construction has started! The crisis is over! Yet beneath the fanfare, a whole new get-rich-quick scheme is brewing…


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Norton (RAT period-DC) Details Why Busting the Filibuster Was Essential + MORE

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