My 2015 confession: conservatives were right about everything, by Mark Sumner Is figure skating ready to come out of the closet, by Laura Clawson Three billion years to Mars, by DarkSyde A call to action and a time to remember: Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2015, by Denise Oliver Velez Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker claims to have a master's degree, by Mark E Andersen John Grisham, muckraker, by Susan Grigsby Will Bill de Blasio teach liberals that liberals with a spine win, by Egberto Willies Medicaid for kids largely pays for itself. Who think the GOP's magic math model will count that, by Ian Reifowitz Poll shows Staten Island is a world apart from rest of New York City, by David Jarman
Is figure skating ready to come out of the closet, by Laura Clawson
Three billion years to Mars, by DarkSyde
A call to action and a time to remember: Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2015, by Denise Oliver Velez
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker claims to have a master's degree, by Mark E Andersen
John Grisham, muckraker, by Susan Grigsby
Will Bill de Blasio teach liberals that liberals with a spine win, by Egberto Willies
Medicaid for kids largely pays for itself. Who think the GOP's magic math model will count that, by Ian Reifowitz
Poll shows Staten Island is a world apart from rest of New York City, by David Jarman
Ahead of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, an anti-immigration group released an ad claiming President Obama’s executive action to give work authorization to some undocumented immigrants betrays the civil rights icon’s vision for America. The Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) ad criticizes the president for “losing sight of Dr. King’s dreams,” while manufacturing tension between two minority groups that have high rates of unemployment. The ad is being aired on national cable news networks and local TV stations in Los Angeles, California. Featuring poignant music and black and white photos, an ominous voice asks viewers whether Dr. King wanted African Americans and Hispanic Americans to struggle with high unemployment, underemployment and wage stagnation. […] In reality, many civil rights leaders who worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. have called for immigration reform; Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) was even arrested last year for civil disobedience while participating in a rally for the cause.
Featuring poignant music and black and white photos, an ominous voice asks viewers whether Dr. King wanted African Americans and Hispanic Americans to struggle with high unemployment, underemployment and wage stagnation. […]
In reality, many civil rights leaders who worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. have called for immigration reform; Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) was even arrested last year for civil disobedience while participating in a rally for the cause.
As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time. But something seemed out of whack. "Plow tracker said my street was plowed an hour ago - Pull the other leg," the 31-year-old video producer tweeted to the mayor's office, including a photo of her snowed-in street.
But something seemed out of whack.
"Plow tracker said my street was plowed an hour ago - Pull the other leg," the 31-year-old video producer tweeted to the mayor's office, including a photo of her snowed-in street.
Science-fiction author Larry Niven once quipped that the dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program, so if humans make the same mistake, it’ll serve us right. […] After all, there’s a lot of stuff floating around in space, and it’s only a matter of time before the next big impact arrives. That’s why there is such aggressive advocacy within the space community for establishing a meticulous catalogue of potentially hazardous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)—bodies that will pass within five million miles of Earth or less. One of the most successful projects along those lines is NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a space telescope launched in 2009.
After all, there’s a lot of stuff floating around in space, and it’s only a matter of time before the next big impact arrives.
That’s why there is such aggressive advocacy within the space community for establishing a meticulous catalogue of potentially hazardous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)—bodies that will pass within five million miles of Earth or less. One of the most successful projects along those lines is NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a space telescope launched in 2009.
When Roberta Jacobson’s plane touches down in Havana this week, she will be the highest-ranking U.S. diplomat to visit the island since President Jimmy Carter’s administration. Her job? Help restore diplomatic relations severed at the height of the Cold War.[…] The visit comes days after Cuba released 53 political prisoners and the U.S. eased export and travel restrictions, including allowing Americans to bring home as much as $100 in iconic Cohiba cigars and Havana rum, and up to $400 total in souvenirs from the island. Now that the U.S. embargo has been relaxed, Obama’s administration needs to develop logistics that will allow Cuba to legally import cell phones and laptops for the first time.
The visit comes days after Cuba released 53 political prisoners and the U.S. eased export and travel restrictions, including allowing Americans to bring home as much as $100 in iconic Cohiba cigars and Havana rum, and up to $400 total in souvenirs from the island. Now that the U.S. embargo has been relaxed, Obama’s administration needs to develop logistics that will allow Cuba to legally import cell phones and laptops for the first time.
Some green groups dropped the diplomacy altogether and expressed outright disappointment. “We cannot afford to wait,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune. “EPA and BLM must act quickly to reduce methane emissions from all new and existing sources of methane pollution in the oil and gas sector, including the transmission and distribution of natural gas.” Greenpeace, Public Citizen, and Friends of the Earth issued a joint press release declaring, “The Obama administration must reconsider their strategy on methane and put out a much stronger proposed rule than they suggest today.”