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On Friday, This American Life and Pro Publica unveiled a fantastic investigation. Carmen Segarra, a bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, had grown disenchanted with her employer’s supervision of the giant bank Goldman Sachs—and began to record conversations between her...

The Obama administration appears to be losing ground in its efforts to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, according to new government figures that show pollution levels rising again after several years of gradual decline. Data released Friday by the Energy Department show American...

Fox News co-hosts on The Five after report on Maj. Mariam Mansouri, the UAE's first female fighter pilot, who was a team leader in airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria: Greg Gutfeld: "The problem is, after she bombed it she couldn't park it." Eric Bolling: "Would that be considered boobs...

AlterNet / By Valerie Tarico

A recent Pew study found that white American evangelical Christians think they experience more discrimination than blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, atheists or Jews. Really? Christianity is the majority religion in the U.S. Many kinds of legally ensconced religious privileges are on the rise...

Students Protesting Conservative Rewrite Of History Get Their Most Important Endorsement Yet The organization that oversees the Advanced Placement curriculum, whose history course is being defended by massive, ongoing student protests in a Denver suburb, has now said that it backs those...

WASHINGTON -- The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened by the Supreme Court's conservative majority. Billionaires can now make unlimited contributions to super PACs, or, if they prefer discretion, to nonprofit groups that...

The ultimate test of anti-science sentiment, of course, is to see what climate deniers do when confronted with science that actually appears to confirm their views. Which is why this study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, was brilliantly timed. The...

This past week was a big one for climate change. In other ways, of course, it was like every other week for climate change. It began when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, in New York and in 160 countries around the world, to demand action on an issue that affects every person...

:rolleyes:

Speaking of maturity . . .

And I can blow you off. See how that works? Are your kids any more mature than you are?

And they're saving a ton of money by not having to prosecute and jail those who would be otherwise.

Here's some news: it's a public forum. If you want to blog somewhere, that's your choice.

A conservative group with financial and political ties to the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch sent hundreds of North Carolina voters -- and at least one cat -- incorrect voter registration information, according to the State Board of Elections. The Raleigh News & Observer first...

"We"?

Shoulda boughta gun.

Or else they're shiftless (no pun intended).

I understand. My point was whether or not the parent is illegal and the children aren't is irrelevant in reality. It isn't as if the kids are going to go grocery shopping on their own (as you say), then stash the groceries somewhere so that their parents can't get access, risking a beating so...

JEFF SPROSS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 Cities could put a massive dent in global warming if they got serious about cutting their carbon emissions, with or without the help of national governments. That’s the word from a new report put out Tuesday by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), a...