Supreme Court Justice Scalia knows that convicted prisoners who prove innocence after they are sentenced to capital punishment, ruin any logical argument in favor of the death penalty as a rational outcome of our justice system. So he basically says: real innocence is irrelevant once declared guilty by a jury. Justice Antonin Scalia criticized...
Read more →Federally Qualified Health Centers are non-profit, community directed, primary care health centers funded under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act passed in 1946. They are supported by the US HHS Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). HRSA describes the main goal of these health centers as: Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you...
Read more →Mike Davis posits that slums are ground zero for pandemics. Mega-slums are where pandemics gain new life. Mike Davis, a recipient of the MacArthur “genius” award, is author of The Planet of Slums. The following is adapted from an interview with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels. The global pandemics we see today tend to originate...
Read more →Lawrence O’Donnell comes with that Real Talk. Ask any GOP elected official who “hates socialism”: will you vote to repeal Medicare? Veterans Administration Hospitals? Social Security? Public Fire Departments? Public Police Departments? Public Education? Public Universities? If they so no, which every Republican save Ron Paul will, then ask them why they call socialist...
Read more →Former DNC chair Howard Dean has the public’s option for dealing with Blue Dog Democrats who vote against the public option: “I do think there will be primaries as the result of all this, if the bill doesn’t pass with a public option,” Dean said, in a phone interview with the Huffington Post. The...
Read more →They should be required to turn in their phones, blue tooth and whatnot at the beginning and end of every shift. Same goes for Public Transit operators. A distracted cabby talking on his cellphone while speeding yesterday struck and killed an 8-year-old boy in Harlem — and then continued to yak away, oblivious to...
Read more →10 year old Damon Weaver interviews President Barack Obama. For once a reporter asks the President about violence and impoverished communities. David Gregory take some notes.
Read more →Ezekiel Emanuel, the oncologist and bio-ethicist is the Death Panels Czar according to the crazies. According to medical professionals he is a good doctor and a leading bio ethicist: “The aim of health care is curing disease, relieving pain and suffering, promoting public health, pursuing research to improve health, and so on,” he wrote....
Read more →This just isn’t right: For the second day in a row, thousands of people lined up on Wednesday — starting after midnight and snaking into the early hours — for free dental, medical and vision services, courtesy of a nonprofit group that more typically provides mobile health care for the rural poor. Like a...
Read more →I’ve been to Wrigley, it is an awesome experience, this idiot, like most idiot fans, are in the minority. His actions got his whole row thrown out. Nonsense aside: beer washes off, championships are forever and the Phillies won 12-5 in Pedro Martinez’s Phillies debut.
Read more →Craig Miller is one of the Health Care Town Hall constituents who was just driven so CRAZY by the socialism that he had to be one of the folks who confronted Arlen Specter in Lebanon, PA. He actually wanted to deliver a list of ways he believes President Obama has broken his oath. Like...
Read more →Vick’s crimes were horrible, and yes, the wealth of the modern professional sports is corrupting. But despite all that, Vick has every right to play in the NFL should he find a team to hire him. I say so because Vick has paid his debt to society. He faced the U.S. justice system and...
Read more →US Rep Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) should be ashamed of her parenting skills. She’s failed conservatism. Here’s what Bachmann said about President Obama’s plan to expand AmeriCorps, a program that puts young adults to work making the world a better place by teaching disadvantaged kids and helping the poor: “ under the guise of quote,...
Read more →Cold, Hard FootballFacts.com tries to discern what QBs do when they have to “Carry a team” (when a QB has to make most of the plays in a game for his team). Brady and McNabb are the top two in this situation and in the top 10 all time. With the injuries mounting in...
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