The Census Bureau is out today with an update on the metropolitan areas with the highest median incomes: (Census) (Census) Again, to be clear, these are metropolitan areas not municipalities. Washington, DC, is much less affluent than its suburban counties, like McLean, Virginia. But this highlights a fundamental problem in the American economy. The regions with the strongest economies where …
AZ GOP Vice Chair: Sterilize Women Who Receive Medicaid
The Arizona Republican Party’s second-in-command resigned over the weekend after he called for the forced sterilization of women as a requirement for receiving public aid. According to the Arizona Republic, former state Sen. Russell Pearce—who once passed along neo-Nazi literature to his campaign supporters and called fellow Republicans “sissies” for giving up on the word “wetback”—resigned as Arizona Republican Party’s …
CDC Warns Hospitals … Ebola Is Coming
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warning hospitals and doctors that “now is the time to prepare,” has issued a six-page Ebola “checklist” to help healthcare workers quickly determine if patients are infected. While the CDC does not believe that there are new cases of Ebola in the United States, the assumption in the checklist is that it is …
GOP Labor Law Reform Is A Disgrace
Senate Republicans say they have a plan to save U.S. labor law from partisanship and dysfunction. But their prescription for reform could make for even more gridlock — and critics say that’s the whole idea. On the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) unveiled a bill that would make sweeping changes at the National Labor Relations Board, the federal …
We Are Repeating The Same Mistakes With ISIS…
US lawmakers voted Wednesday to authorize training and arming of vetted Syrian rebels to combat Islamist radicals, a crucial step in President Barack Obama’s bid to thwart extremism surging across Iraq and Syria. Despite misgivings by war-weary Democrats that the move could open the door to full-blown American military intervention in the Middle East, and concern by conservatives that the …
Obama – ISIS “Doesn’t Frighten Us”
With approval in hand to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight the ISIS terror group, President Barack Obama said Thursday the plan keeps with “the key principle” of U.S. strategy: No American combat troops on the ground. “The American troops deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” he said in televised remarks from the …
What’s Next For Scotland Post Independence Vote?
From the capital of Edinburgh to the far-flung Shetland Islands, Scots embraced a historic moment — and the rest of the United Kingdom held its breath — after voters turned out in unprecedented numbers for an independence referendum that could end Scotland’s 307-year union with England. Results early Friday brought cheer to the anti-independence “Better Together” camp. With 17 of …