In Case You Missed It… Assorted Oddities from Around the Web
Some stories that hit the Internet this past week involved a dead whale, brain implants, Neanderthals and the House of Davids.
Some stories that hit the Internet this past week involved a dead whale, brain implants, Neanderthals and the House of Davids.
When people from the North and the Midwest started arriving to Florida, I thought the state that I loved would become more ‘enlightened’. It didn’t happen, and nearly four years ago they elected Rick Scott. Bummer.
Retiring Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller unloaded on Republicans during a hearing today. He said that Republicans don’t want anything good to happen for this president because he’s the wrong color.
On Tuesday, while announcing that the White House had released this report, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer, host of America’s Newsroom, stated that the report was perhaps being used to distract people from the “multiple scandals swirling around the administration.”
Monica Lewinsky is back, and she has is debunking the talking points that Republicans are hoping to use against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
A new climate change report was released by the White House on Tuesday. White House counselor John Podesta stated that he hoped that Republicans would look at this report change their minds on the existence of climate change and that it is indeed caused by man.
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber (D) saw an unconscious woman along a city street and he jumped into action, performing CPR to save her.
Top House Democrats, including Leader Nancy Pelosi were supposed to be holding a Steering and Policy Committee hearing on the Republican refusal to extend unemployment benefits, but Republicans kicked Democrats out of their scheduled room.
When Americans in the near future look back and wonder how, why, and when their democracy was lost to theocracy, and the Constitution replaced with the bible, they can look back at the Court’s ruling as a pivotal moment, not the deciding moment, in democracy’s demise but a very significant one all the same.
Robertson’s fingerprints are all over the rise of the conservative extremism he now condemns, being called by the Washington Post a power broker of the religious right.