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A Supreme Court for Billionaires, Not Voters

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 29th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL

A Supreme Court for Billionaires, Not Voters
From: John Nichols

The majority that made it easier to buy an election makes it harder to vote.

From Walmart to Wall Street, Students Mass for Racial Justice
From: StudentNation

For young people across the country, generational moments collide.

Questions About California’s New Campus Rape Law
From: Michelle Goldberg

Taken literally, California’s new law mandating an affirmative consent standard on college campuses could redefine a lot of consensual sex as rape. Should we be worried?

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Education System Needs Transformation, Not “Reform”

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 29th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL

Education System Needs Transformation, Not “Reform”

Justice Ginsburg Is an American Hero
Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic

Finding Doctor Who Takes Obamacare Grows Harder
Doug Smith, LAT
Finding a doctor who takes Obamacare coverage could be just as frustrating for Californians in 2015 as the health-law expansion enters its second year.The state’s largest health insurers are sticking with their often-criticized narrow networks of doctors, and in some cases they are cutting the number of physicians even more, according to a Times analysis of company data.

Odds of GOP Winning Senate Are Growing
Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
California is morphing into a warmer Detroit with beaches and pneumatic blondes, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Only liberalism could’ve taken the most beautiful, most hard-working, most entrepreneurial state in the union and turned it into a shabby province composed of deadbeat Oliver Twists holding up their bowls demanding more. Now that might be changing.

How the Right Could Lose Its Way on Guns
Charles Cooke, NRO