Thursday, December 10, 2015

RSN: AEP Dumps ALEC to Help States Implement Clean Power Plan, Expedite Renewable Energy, Occupation With a Human Face, It's Too Late to Turn Off Trump




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Matt Taibbi | It's Too Late to Turn Off Trump 
Donald Trump. (photo: Getty) 
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "Some people in the news business are having second thoughts this week about their campaign strategy. They're wondering if they created a monster in Donald Trump." 
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Planned Parenthood Killer Robert Dear Admits Guilt in Court 
Laura Wagner, NPR 
Wagner writes: "In one of several courtroom outbursts Wednesday, Robert Lewis Dear, who is accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month, declared his guilt and said he is 'a warrior for the babies.'" 
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Senate Panel Focuses on Toll of Valeant, Turing Drug Price Spikes 
Sarah N. Lynch and Bill Berkrot, Reuters 
Excerpt: "The committee is reviewing price increases for two Valeant heart drugs, Isuprel and Nitropress, and Turing's price increase on Daraprim, used to treat toxoplasmosis, a serious disease that affects AIDS patients and pregnant women and their babies." 
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Is Affirmative Action Finished? 
Garrett Epps, The Atlantic 
Epps writes: "CFR's real claim is that use of race to increase racial and ethnic diversity at institutions like the University of Texas is immoral, dangerous, and a violation of the equal-protection rights of whites. It can't make that argument openly - Fisher I held that universities can use race. So it uses coded language." 
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VW: Engineers Began Working on Cheat in 2005 
David Rising and Kerstin Sopke, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "A small group of Volkswagen engineers began working as early as 2005 on emissions cheating software after they were unable to find a technical solution to U.S. emissions controls as the automaker pushed into the North American market, executives said Thursday." 
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Occupation With a Human Face 
Peter Berard, Jacobin 
Berard writes: "When occupations begin to go wrong, as they invariably do, policymakers need new ideas and new images to keep the people at home from asking too many hard questions." 
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AEP Dumps ALEC to Help States Implement Clean Power Plan, Expedite Renewable Energy 
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch 
Mellino writes: "It appears that nearly everybody wants to disassociate itself from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative lobbying group that fights climate change policies. Its latest departure? American Electric Power (AEP), one of the nation's largest utilities." 
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