Here are some excerpts from the February edition of the Harper’s Index (not yet on-line):
Amount invested by the Obama Administration in training former coal workers to operate drones: $2,200,000
Estimated percentage of Florida homes that will be underwater by 2100: 13 [...]
Net change, in acres, in the world’s forested land since 1990: -319,000,000
In China: +126,500,000
Percentage by which the global wildlife population has declined since 1970: 58 [...]
Number of Canadian jobs that were abolished when the government launched a more efficient payroll system last year: 700
Of Canadians who then experienced payment delays because of system errors: 80,000
Value of donations given to the American Civil Liberties Union in the week after the election: $7,200,000
In the week after the 2012 election: $27,806
Number of Supreme Court decisions repudiating Korematsu v. United States, which legalized Japanese-American internment: 0 [...]
Rank of corrupt government officials among Americans’ greatest fears: 1
Of climate change: 17
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2003—Bush Hands Gephardt a Big Issue:
Without proposing an alternative of his own, and as another sop to the Trent Lott Republicans he steamrolled last month, President Bush came out against the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy today, claiming that the current system calls for quotas and makes race "the" factor in admissions.
Dick Gephardt will file an opposing brief. In the big scheme of things facing this country right now, it is hard to see, outside of pure, craven pandering to a base he pissed off last month, why the President feels it is important for the White House to weigh in on this. Apparently John Ashcroft had free time apart from INS illegal detentions, the on-the-loose Democrats-only anthrax terrorist, and his singing engagements.
To demonstrate his opposition against race-based actions and policies, Bush announced that he would ask Clarence Thomas to resign from the Supreme Court, withdraw the nominations of Alberto Gonzales and Miguel Estrada from considertion for federal appeals court consideration, and directed Bill Frist and the NRSC to broaden their previous voter suppression efforts beyond African-American precincts in future elections.
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