Two GOP pols risk execution by primary in a fleeting

New York - On Monday, Dec. 6, a district court in Texas will be asked – for the first time in that U.S. state's history – to decide whether the death penalty is unconstitutional based on the "disproportionately high risk of wrongful convictions" in Texas. John Edward Green, Jr., the defendant in Texas v. Green, is charged in the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old Houston woman during a 2008 robbery. He has not yet been convicted, but prosecutors say they would seek the ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6338320/Texas-man-faces-execution-after-jurors-consult-Bible-to-decide-fate.html# ...

Via the Sweetness & Light blog, there’s this hilarious AP headline: “Unyielding GOP politicians doing what voters ask.” AP wants them to ignore the voters? You almost have to applaud AP for noticing that the conservative “obstructionists” in the House were indeed elected to uphold conservative principles. Something tells me AP didn’t do a horrified story from San Francisco or Beverly Hills in 2005 that “unyielding liberal Democrats” were actually going to listen to their cons ...

I just heard that President Pantywaist wants all US military bases to be opened up to house the illegal aliens. Sure, let's do that. Let's infect our active duty military and their families with whatever contagions these illegals have and further undermine the foundations of this country. ...

Just needing to vent and network with people who are taking care of an elderly parent. This is going on my second year, and while I have 4 other siblings, I am the only one taking care of her. She had several strokes and is bedridden for the most part. She has recovered somewhat from the stroke but still not walking, but the dementia comes and goes. Sometimes she does not know who I am and calls me one of her sisters, and when I try to correct her, she would say "well that's what the o ...

Ah, yes, the if-it-feels-good-do-it crowd. The it's-my-body crowd (who see no contradiction with banning cigarettes, e-vapes and sugary/salty/fatty foods and beverages). As the article linked below indicates, pot is definitely not free of consequences. ...

One million and one. The comments to this article are priceless. ...

as justices take up Obamacare challenge. What a mess this will be if the court rules against the ACA subsides in the states that declined to set up their own exchanges. ...

Wow....instead of working together with the President of the United States on improving our country, doing the peoples' work, and trying to be fair to all Americans, the GOP members of Congress chose making Obama a one-term president as their #1 goal. All those hours working on obstruction, all those missed opportunities to do good things for this country, all that money down the drain. I would grade that a "Major Fail" of their #1 goal. ...

This is only the beginning. HA!! ...

The advice and comments I have received from all of you are priceless. I think I will start finding ways to decrease the 10,000 and work on trying to get her in a nursing home. The advice on how to talk to a dementia person, OMG thanks so much. I always try to correct her and try to get her to understand and sometimes I think it is making her not like me. I will from now on agree with what ever she says, in order to have peace in the home. Once again, thank all of you. I feel a whole lot be ...

http://agriculture.house.gov/audio/ag-minute-lawmakers-seek-answers-epas-actions-put-farmers-ranchers-risk ...

From the NY Times WASHINGTON — For the past two years, Republican senators facing re-election have very deliberately spent millions of dollars, hired multiple consultants and cast scores of conservative votes with one goal in mind: avoiding the embarrassing primary conflagrations that befell their party in 2010 and 2012 and cost Republicans a chance at taking back the Senate. Enlarge This Image Drew Angerer for The New York Times Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is ...

This isn't a comment about the GOP. I have little doubt that primaries on the other side are run just as....(ahem!) informally. UTAH CAUCUS: First hand insider report - Incompetence, Manipulation, and Ballot Stuffing!!!Just got back from my caucus... My head is still spinning.Check in was slow but reasonably controlled. Super-long lines. I've never seen turnout like this.Got my credentials, but no presidential ballot. They said those would be delivered to our caucus room.Got to ...

Here's an article about profiteers trying to buy doctor groups to "get control of their patient base and leverage those patients." I believe the model was transcription companies -- the idea was to round them up (Rodeer, anyone?) get control of the hospital accounts and leverage the MTs into accepting less and less. It worked on the little women so why not expand to credentialed men? ...

the Republican Party of being out of touch with “post-Christian America,” warning the GOP that if it doesn’t renege on its alliance with Christianity, it will soon become irrelevant. Ted Cruz’s failure to get the GOP nomination, Matthew Sheffield proclaims in Salon, “is a perfect window into trends that will set the pace of American politics for decades to come: Americans are moving away from Christianity, including people most likely to vote Republican.” To back up his claim ...

Obama’s Temper Tantrum Putting American Lives at Risk” by Donna Garner 3.23.13 Obama’s temper tantrum is putting Americans’ lives at Risk. Because he is furious that the Republicans did not back down when he tried to bully them into caving on sequestration, he is determined to make sure the federal agency cuts are in the places that will be most noticeable and hurtful to the public. This way he thinks he can turn the public’s wrath toward th ...

After gunmen attacked a satirical French newspaper on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Republicans won't back away from a fight over immigration that risks halting funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "I believe that the president's executive actions with regard to immigration are outside of the Constitution and outside of his powers, and I believe that we can deal with that issue in the Department of Homeland Security bill without jeopard ...

responding to a 2008 Physicians Foundation Survey, about half stated they would consider leaving medicine. A CNN report summarizing the findings stated that “many [primary care physicians] said they are overwhelmed with their practices, not because they have too many patients, but because there’s too much red tape generated from insurance companies and government agencies.”[2] In response, one would have expected that policymakers, when assessing the merits of a proposed healthcare ...

Dems will crush Dave Brat. But on another note, looks like talking out of both side of the mouth didn't work for Cantor. ...

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) is risking a shot at becoming the top Republican on an influential Senate committee by backing Democratic healthcare legislation, according to senators on the panel. A Senate Democrat on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee said Republicans on the panel are threatening to vote against Snowe, who is in line for the senior GOP post that is about to come open. Conclusion of article at: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/62727-sens-snowe-risks-perch# ...

Reports say he suffered a fall of some sort. The primary was so close that an official winner has still not been declared. Not sure what they do now...declare Aiken the winner (preliminary results had him leading by fewer than 400 votes), or have a runoff between him and the other trailing candidate. ...

physician, the doctor — not insurance companies or government regulators — sets his own rates. His patients pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to office visits and free in-office testing and procedures. And getting rid of the middleman cuts patient costs as much as 50 percent. Savage told Watchdog.org he adopted the DPC model after 12 years of traditional practice so he could focus on his patients instead of bureaucracy. “I wanted to work in a system that facilitated being a qu ...

Two GOP pols risk execution by primary in a fleeting

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