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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)

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  link . Congressman announces cancer diagnosis months after characterizing illness as a personal failing When reality intervenes on rhetoric. THINKPROGRESS.ORG Congressman announces cancer diagnosis months after characterizing illness as a personal failing When reality intervenes on rhetoric. https://thinkprogress.org/mo-brooks-cancer-health-care-comments-0d472b2bc9ef/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

In Alabama Senate Race, Big Law Backed a Winner

TODAY'S TOP STORIES In Alabama Senate Race, Big Law Backed a Winner Doug Jones, a name partner at Birmingham’s Jones & Hawley and a former partner at Haskell Slaughter and Whatley Drake,...  READ MORE » US Justice Department Will Back Joe Arpaio in Appeal to Erase Contempt Verdict "The government has entered an appearance in this case and intends to represent the government's interests in this appeal,"...  READ MORE » With Luttig as GC, Boeing Lands Fleet of Former SCOTUS Clerks Boeing’s executive vice president and general counsel J. Michael Luttig has been staffing the company's law department...  READ MORE » What's Next After the Kozinski Allegations? Here's How Courts Handle Misconduct Claims. In the normal judicial misconduct case, a federal appeals court would handle the complaint internally. But the sexual...  READ MORE » Federal Judicial Nominee Flunks 'Motion in Limine' Definition at Senate Hearing Feder

Jonathan Chait | Voters to Roy Moore: F*ck You and the Horse You Rode in On

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13 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News IS "SURVIVING DECEMBER" THE NEW NORMAL? Increasingly, December is becoming a fundraising nightmare. Traditionally, December was always considered a month where we would get a year-end boost. It's not only no longer that, it's rapidly becoming the worst month of the year. No traction at all on donations. Big concern. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Jonathan Chait | Voters to Roy Moore: F*ck You and the Horse You Rode in On    Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine   Chait writes: "Roy Moore is Donald Trump, but more so. He is a buffoon, a racist, authoritarian demagogue, and a sexual predator. In all these qualities, save buffoonery, he exceeds Trump."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

How safe is your child’s school zone? This map will show you.

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MAP ON  LINK Alarming amount of car crashes outside schools, study says | Digital Short ABC Action News Published on Dec 13, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHmsiIqQS8 (0:55 sec video segment) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABC Action News Published on Dec 13, 2017   Are your kids safe walking to school or even getting off the bus near school? A Florida law firm dug through the FL Department of Motor Vehicle records to find out the number of crashes within 500 feet of schools— and it’s alarming! How safe is your child’s school zone? This map will show you. BY HOWARD COHEN DECEMBER 12, 2017 04:57 PM UPDATED DECEMBER 12, 2017 05:28 PM The School for Advanced Studies and New World School of the Arts, both on Miami Dade College’s Wolfson campus in downtown Miami, are the most dangerous schools in Florida when taking into account vehicle crash data, according to a new study. The company, 1Point21I

MUST READ! Matt Taibbi | Latest Student Loan Debacle Is Ultimate Example of Trump's Campaign Con

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13 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News DON’T GO EBENEZER SCROOGE ON US, FOLKS! 5 Days of Fundraising and only 2K, that’s obviously not going to keep the process going. A few people are starting to help - Thank You! A lot of people are not yet helping. That’s why this is taking so long. Help out, Ebenezer, you’ll feel better. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Matt Taibbi | Latest Student Loan Debacle Is Ultimate Example of Trump's Campaign Con    Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone   Taibbi writes: "Moving forward, Trump and the Republican Party have all but buried the campaign-trail 'fairly radical' plan under a series of other student-bashing decisions."   READ MORE The president ran against debt predators, drug makers and big banks – once elected, he immediately got in bed with all of them ast October, just about a week after  the release  of the infamous  Access Holly

Bitcoin Frenzy: The Fever Chart Of A Deepening Crisis

Dear Friend, The bitcoin bubble could take the world into another economic crash. Writing in the Financial Times and Washington Post, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said the US economy was on a “sugar high”. He noted that economic growth this year had been driven by a stock market rally that has seen an increase of more than $6 trillion in household wealth “captured by a small share of the population.” Despite record-low capital costs and abundant corporate cash, both of which are an inducement to investment, productivity growth has been very slow and “even innovative companies such as Apple and Google cannot find enough high-return investments and so choose to engage in large-scale share repurchases.” The implication of Summers’s “sugar high” diagnosis is that the US and, by extension, the world economy are heading for a crash. Campaigners have set up an an easy to use website that allows you to automatically petitition your MP, Banks, Mobile phone companies