Malnati's Valsar Championship win earns him a likely invite into the first
Cornyn and Cruz have complained about spying on journalists before. Now
The increasingly obvious incompetence of President Joe Biden is clearly a serious problem, yet many people see it as a one-off, easily solved if the Democrats can find a way to jettison him and run somebody else this fall, or if the Republicans can defeat him and win control of both houses of Congress. Unfortunately, the rolling disaster that is our current federal government is much more than that. It is the inevitable outcome of a widespread, thorough rejection of the plain...
An excerpt from ‘Managing Chronic Pain’, by Mary Abraham and Vandana V Prakash.
How did Jim Troupis, a leader in fake Republican elector scheme, get reappointed?
On Thursday, March 14, Elizabeth School District asked for a waiver from the Colorado State Board of Education allowing it to consider hiring non-licensed substitutes to serve in its classrooms as a last resort. The rural district, which sits on the edge of the Denver metro area, has been working for the last year to close a staffing gap resulting from a substitute fill rate of less than 60%, which has put major pressure on its teachers. Under state rules, school districts may...
Long lines and cumbersome ID requirements discourage students from voting.
This Friday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson over his pushing through of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan spending bill that angered far-right lawmakers. “Today I filed a motion to vacate after Speaker Johnson has betrayed our conference and broken our rules,” Greene said in regards to the package that was passed to avoid a government shutdown. According to The Independent's Eric Garcia, the move worked out great for Greene since she "has shown...
As a safety-net for the poor, Congress started a drug rebate program in Medicaid in 1990 to provide pharmaceuticals to the most vulnerable enrollees. Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires drug companies that participate in the Medicaid entitlement to sell outpatient pharmaceuticals to various medical facilities that provide care to low-income patients. The program began in 1992 and was essentially an extension of the original drug rebate plan. Drug companies give...
Gwyneth Paltrow is getting ready to become an empty nester. In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, the actress discussed how she's preparing to say goodbye to her son Moses, and her husband, Brad Falchuk's son Brody, when they move away for college in the fall. She explained she is intrigued "to see how the morning routine changes with no kids in the house." "On the one hand [I feel] incredible sadness. A deep sense of impending grief," she shared. "On the other hand, this is exactly what...
Former mother-in-law claims that Elizabeth Helgelien ‘raised a murderer’
The government has condemned an opinion piece about the city’s “lost freedom” published by the New York Times, the latest letter to media in a campaign to counter critical press coverage of the recently-enacted homegrown security law. In a letter written to the Times’ editor on Wednesday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang claimed the op-ed, […]