Charles Pierce | The Second Coming of Rick Santorum
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In his announcement speech, Rick went full wingnut. He wants to 'drive a stake' through Common Core (Hi, 'Bobby' Jindal!). He wants to junk the IRS (Hi, Ted Cruz!) and institute a flat tax (Hi, Steve Forbes!)."
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "In his announcement speech, Rick went full wingnut. He wants to 'drive a stake' through Common Core (Hi, 'Bobby' Jindal!). He wants to junk the IRS (Hi, Ted Cruz!) and institute a flat tax (Hi, Steve Forbes!)."
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Chelsea Manning | I Was Threatened With Being Sent to Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp
Chelsea Manning, Guardian UK
Manning writes: "Today marks five years since I was ordered into military confinement while deployed to Iraq in 2010. I find it difficult to believe, at times, just how long I have been in prison."
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Chelsea Manning, Guardian UK
Manning writes: "Today marks five years since I was ordered into military confinement while deployed to Iraq in 2010. I find it difficult to believe, at times, just how long I have been in prison."
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How Nebraska Abolished the Death Penalty
Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Berman writes: "Nebraska on Wednesday became the first conservative state in more than four decades to repeal the death penalty. Its legislature, officially non-partisan but dominated by Republicans, voted by the narrowest of possible margins to override a veto by Governor Pete Ricketts, and enact a law scrapping a punishment that the state has struggled to carry out."
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Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Berman writes: "Nebraska on Wednesday became the first conservative state in more than four decades to repeal the death penalty. Its legislature, officially non-partisan but dominated by Republicans, voted by the narrowest of possible margins to override a veto by Governor Pete Ricketts, and enact a law scrapping a punishment that the state has struggled to carry out."
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Washington Wisdom on Data Collection Shown Up by Justice Department Verdict
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman writes: "For all the acrimony over the future contours of US domestic surveillance, a consensus has emerged: the expiring portions of the Patriot Act that do not govern the mass collection of US phone records are critical counter-terrorism tools."
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Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman writes: "For all the acrimony over the future contours of US domestic surveillance, a consensus has emerged: the expiring portions of the Patriot Act that do not govern the mass collection of US phone records are critical counter-terrorism tools."
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Dems Get Behind Plan for Debt-Free College
Niall Stanage, The Hill
Stanage writes: "Support for debt-free college education is rising among Democrats who believe that reversing spiraling costs would be both good policy and a political winner."
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Niall Stanage, The Hill
Stanage writes: "Support for debt-free college education is rising among Democrats who believe that reversing spiraling costs would be both good policy and a political winner."
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US Military Mistakenly Ships Live Anthrax to Labs in Nine States
Phil Stewart and Sharon Begley, Reuters
Excerpt: "The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday."
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Phil Stewart and Sharon Begley, Reuters
Excerpt: "The U.S. military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday."
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Texas Floods Signal El Nino, Climate Change
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "The storms that slammed into Texas and Oklahoma over Memorial Day weekend may signal the beginning of an El Nino year, but their unusual ferocity could be due to climate change, scientists said Wednesday."
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Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "The storms that slammed into Texas and Oklahoma over Memorial Day weekend may signal the beginning of an El Nino year, but their unusual ferocity could be due to climate change, scientists said Wednesday."
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