How 'The Cosby Show' taught me to express my cultural identity, by Ian Reifowitz Why no one will be watching Mississippi on Election Night 2015, by Steve Singiser We must not allow misinformation to kill Obamacare and continue killing Americans, by Egberto Willies Stuff you may not have known about Halloween, Susan Grigsby Halloween asteroid will be a small treat, by DarkSyde Let's listen to each other on the topic of guns: Part Two, by Mark E Andersen Racist "Homeland" hacked by graffiti activists, by Denise Oliver Velez
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are quietly ratcheting up pressure on Rand Paul to pay more attention to his Senate reelection next year — and less to his flagging 2016 presidential candidacy. So far, those efforts have stopped short of urging the Kentucky senator, whose presidential bid McConnell has formally endorsed, to outright abandon his national campaign. But there are growing concerns that Paul, as a senator still in his first term in office, is courting trouble by dividing his time between the two races, raising the prospect that a rock-ribbed Republican seat could be put into play and jeopardize McConnell’s fragile 54-seat GOP majority.
So far, those efforts have stopped short of urging the Kentucky senator, whose presidential bid McConnell has formally endorsed, to outright abandon his national campaign. But there are growing concerns that Paul, as a senator still in his first term in office, is courting trouble by dividing his time between the two races, raising the prospect that a rock-ribbed Republican seat could be put into play and jeopardize McConnell’s fragile 54-seat GOP majority.
Iceland sentences 26 bankers to a combined 74 years in prison, by gjohnsit Exxon's Funding Of Climate Denial Turned Americans Against Their Own Government For Profit, by davej Ding! Colorado Single-Payer Health Care Will Be on the Ballot in 2016., by jpmassar
Exxon's Funding Of Climate Denial Turned Americans Against Their Own Government For Profit, by davej
Ding! Colorado Single-Payer Health Care Will Be on the Ballot in 2016., by jpmassar
The storm is comparable to Typhoon Haiyan, which killed 6,300 people in the Philippines in 2013, the World Meteorological Organization says.
For a start, only life members and those who have been in the NRA for five years or more can vote in its elections. The NRA claims to be a grassroots organisation driven by the popular will of its 4 million-plus members. But real power lies in the hands of a few executives, a shadowy committee which tightly controls elections to the NRA’s board of directors and a public relations company that for three decades has driven the organisation’s uncompromising opposition to any form of gun control. NRA officials and members who challenge this power structure say they have been driven out or marginalised.
The NRA claims to be a grassroots organisation driven by the popular will of its 4 million-plus members. But real power lies in the hands of a few executives, a shadowy committee which tightly controls elections to the NRA’s board of directors and a public relations company that for three decades has driven the organisation’s uncompromising opposition to any form of gun control.
NRA officials and members who challenge this power structure say they have been driven out or marginalised.