A federal appeals court ordered a lower court to block two new voting restrictions in North Carolina, saying there was "no doubt" the measures would disenfranchise minorities.
The term "white privilege," increasingly cropping up in the media, is another example of why liberals don't do better politically. It's fine to oppose discrimination, apartheid, or racism but to lump all whites together negatively is not only factually wrong, it's lousy politics. Convince the people whose support you're seeking, don't dis' them.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter (D) signed an ordinance decriminalizing the possession and use of up to 30 grams of marijuana.
Tip to Politico: You credited Bill Clinton with an "authentic populist connection" in his race for the presidency. Bill Clinton who led the Democrats in their disastrous dismantling of social welfare and control of banks rooted in the New Deal and Great Society is miles from being a populist, for which one fair definition is "a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people." Clinton ended the Democratic Party's commitment to such a cause.
US has spent nearly as much on Afghanistan as on entire 16-nation Marshall Plan
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- Social groups ward off age–related mental decline
- You're twenty seven more times likely to be killed on a bike than in a mass shooting
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Doctors often don’t reveal cancer test overtreatment and harms
A study published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine indicates that the majority of people are never informed by their doctors that early warning cancer tests may detect slow-growing, or no-growing, cancers that will never cause symptoms or affect health. Undergoing surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation for such cancers provides no benefits and definite harms.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/doctors-often-dont-reveal-cancer-test-overtreatment-and-harms-201310226790
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