Here are some excerpts from the June edition of the Harper’s Index:
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Percentage of Republican-primary voters who are “mostly embarrassed” by their party’s campaigns: 60
- Of Democratic-primary voters: 13
- Percentage of registered U.S. voters who voted in the 2014 midterm elections: 63
- Who say they “definitely” voted: 75
- Number of states in which menstrual products are taxed as nonessential goods: 40
- Number of indigent defendants in Louisiana on a waiting list for available public defenders: 3,848
- Percentage by which using traffic circles rather than stop signs at intersections decreases injurious car accidents: 75
- Percentage of U.S. intersections that are traffic circles: 0.09
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Portion of U.S. college students with federal loans who underestimate their debt load: 1/2
Who do not know they have federal loans at all: 1/7
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—Did Hayden Break The Law?
Today, the President pushed for a quick confirmation of his nominee for CIA Director, General Michael Hayden. Various Senators have already come out and rubber-stamped the President's choice. I must admit, this rush to judgment seems paradoxical since program after program is being exposed that should stall--if not kill--the General's nomination.
First, it was the "terrorist surveillance program" that was represented by Hayden as being limited in nature. We still don't know who initiated the program. Reports suggest that it may have been Hayden who unilaterally implemented the extrajudicial spying program, before executive authorization.
Now, we learn that Hayden was the architect of a much broader program, one that has cataloged billions of calls made by innocent Americans.
While Hayden's supporters shrug off this massive data collection, they ignore a critical question: did Hayden break the law? And if so, how can they overlook that and vote for his confirmation?
The fact is that, depending on the exact contours of the program, this program may have already been banned by Congress. And if so, Hayden's resurrection of that program should cast the death blow to any nomination.
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