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The freshman senator defends the letter after criticism from allies and lawmakers, including some fellow Republicans.
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President Barack Obama has a stern message for the younger generation about their political priorities: care more about climate change, and less about legalizing marijuana. Obama, who has been open about smoking pot in high school, chided an interviewer from Vice News who suggested that young people would view legalizing marijuana as a top item when considering the president's legacy. "First of all, it shouldn't be young people's biggest priority," Obama said in the interview, posted at https://news.vice.com/ "Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana," Obama said. Obama has long said he supports decriminalizing marijuana but not legalizing the drug.
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None of the four students involved in this investigation believe it was handled fairly and with respect for due process.
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The University of Missouri students association confirmed that a campus screening of American Sniper would continue as originally scheduled after a Muslim student had protested the showing of the film earlier this month, calling it "blatant racist, colonialist propaganda."
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Branding everything a "phobia" stifles meaningful debate.
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The Supreme Court is about to decide if the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the states to redefine marriage to include same sex relationships. There are several reasons why the answer is no.
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CEO Howard Schultz is encouraging his employees to bring up the hot-button issue â his latest foray into controversial topics.
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The Department of Justice has exonerated Darren Wilson but still blames racism for unrest in Ferguson. Why?
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Last month—and particularly last week— Seattle foodies were downcast as the blows kept coming: Queen Anne’s Grub closed February 15. Pioneer Square’s Little Uncle shut down February 25. Shanik’s Meeru Dhalwala announced that it will close March 21.
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Washington should live within its means, but also ensure safety and economic growth.
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The State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said today that they have no record of Hillary Clinton signing a separation agreement: Of course they wouldn't have it. If they did it would mean at bare ...
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The fate of Obamacare rests in the hands of the American people and not the Supreme Court, according to Scott Rasmussen, the founder and president of the Rasmussen Media Group.
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Sen. Ted Cruz is expanding his footprint into South Carolina, hiring a veteran conservative operative there to advise his likely 2016 presidential campaign.
The Texas Republican's political team confirmed Monday that it has tapped LaDonna Ryggs to help lead Cruz' efforts in South Carolina. The state hosts the third nominating contest of the 2016 primary â and first in the GOP-dominated South. Ryggs, a former GOP county chairman, isn't necessarily a household name. But she has close ties to the Republican base that Cruz hopes will fuel his rise. Ryggs also has relationships with the party Establishment and bring's to the senator's operation years of experience navigating the ins and outs of South Carolina primary campaigns.
I like LaDonna, a South Carolina GOP insider said. She's respected by activists.
Ryggs is working for Cruz' Jobs, Growth & Freedom Fund political action committee as a senior advisor. The senator is not yet a candidate for president, but he is expected to announce for the White House sometime this spring. Ryggs was most recently the managing editor of Palladian View, a digital magazine for conservative Republican women. She earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from Bob Jones University.
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In the last days of World War II, the Red Armyâs rampaging assaults on Austria and Germany included the raping of hundreds of thousands of women. When a senior Communist denounced such behavior, Josef Stalin criticized not the rapist soldiers, but the Communist: âCanât he understand if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death, has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?â Once, sexual violence inflicted on women was regarded as a normal part of war, whether to be celebrated as the victorâs âtaking some trifle,â or regretted as part of what makes war hell. Soviet sexual violence was extreme during World War II, but, though totals are debated, American, French and British rape victims too were counted in the many thousands.
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Child care centers operate on razor-thin margins — thinner, even, than those of the restaurant industry — and many are lucky to wind up in the black at the end of the year. A restaurant can raise prices to meet the new cost of doing business, but child care operations have limited flexibility. Both the state-funded programs and their private counterparts are bound by strict state ratio requirements, which mandate that a certain number of employees be present with the children each day. “That’s one of the unintended consequences” of Oakland’s Measure FF, the November ballot measure that raised the city’s minimum wage from $9 an hour, said Richard Winefield, executive director of the nonprofit child care referral service Bananas. A lot of (centers) are run on very narrow margins, and when they increase the hourly rate on their employees, they need to pass that on in tuition costs, so families need to fork over more money. Winefield says that in most cases, parents waiting for a subsidy make a few dollars a week above the cutoff for state welfare, but are still “very much in need.” Doutherd keeps track of the many painful testimonials from these parents, some of whom can’t keep jobs because they have no one to look after their children. Because they don’t have employment, many are also unable to find housing, she says. Charlotte Guinn, whose home day care center is entering its 20th year in downtown Oakland, says she raised monthly tuition prices by $40 to $60 in January to anticipate the minimum wage hike, to about $950 a month. “I have people who park in front of my home and walk to work so they can save $600 to pay for child care,” she said, adding that one parent recently begged for a payment deadline extension after her car broke down. Guinn has tried to cut corners in every way possible, asking parents to donate crayons or napkins, and even urging them to sell candy door-to-door to raise money. Because of ratio requirements, she can’t lay off any staff to meet her new bottom line. Lift Up Oakland, the group that campaigned to get the minimum wage raised, maintains that businesses will not be hurt by Measure FF. The group, on its website, estimates, “Operating costs will increase by 0.3 percent for retail and 2.8 percent for restaurants.” [...] workers in the city’s child care industry said they supported Measure FF even though they knew it could create hardship for their businesses. Angie Garling, early care and education program administrator for Alameda County, concurred, calling it “a shame” that the caregivers who make it possible for Oakland parents to go to work every day are still at the bottom of the pay scale. At City Hall, Mayor Libby Schaaf has pulled together a group of local foundations to create an assistance plan for struggling nonprofits, including state-funded child care programs, according to a spokeswoman.
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Ted Cruz responds to reports that he terrified a three-year-old girl with a political speech over the weekend. » Subscribe to Late Night: http://bit.ly/LateN...
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If President Barack Obama’s immigration plan gets past a federal court injunction and 60 percent of illegals apply for deferred action protection under the plan, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration S
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Jose and Ana Sanchez ran for their lives during El Salvador's civil war, resettled in Los Angeles and joined the working class.
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The White House Office of Administration says it's not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act
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The DOJ reports on Ferguson are in. My policy is to read the full accounts prior to commenting, and in this case, I'm very glad I did. The two reports issued by the DOJ offer very different and conflicting images of the August events in Ferguson....
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A 10-year LAPD officer and a second person were charged by federal prosecutors Monday with trying to smuggle a Mexican citizen into the United States in the trunk of a car at the Otay Mesa border crossing.
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Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder joined Steve Malzberg today on Newsmax TV to discuss the latest developments in Ferguson. Kinder told Steve there's more racism in the Department of Justice than anywhere in St. Louis. "The whole blowup of this…
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According to sources of the New York Post‘s Edward Klein, President Obama's closest adviser Valerie Jarrett was the source of the leaks of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her...
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What wonât global warming do? New studies argue that global warming will make everything worse, from the weather to the steak millions of people enjoy at barbecues. A recent study by German scien
