
Republicans oppose new dietary guidelines.
by Paul Abrams
The Run
the Jewels rapper announced his support via Twitter after the
Democratic candidate backed full reinstatement of the Voting Rights Act
Our Declaration of Independence, drew from Locke in stating: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” And our fundamental instrument of government derives its authority from “We the People.” U. S. Const., Preamble. As this Court stated, quoting Hamilton: “[T]he true principle of a republic is, that the people should choose whom they please to govern them.” Powell v. McCormack, 395 U. S. 486, 540-541 (1969) (quoting 2 Debates on the Federal Constitution 257 (J. Elliot ed. 1876)). In this light, it would be perverse to interpret the term “Legislature” in the Elections Clause so as to exclude lawmaking by the people, particularly where such lawmaking is intended to check legislators’ ability to choose the district lines they run in, thereby advancing the prospect that Members of Congress will in fact be “chosen . . . by the People of the several States,”
The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
McConnell is so
unpopular in Kentucky that the state’s voters thought KFC’s Colonel
Sanders would be a better senator that McConnell.
The landmark victory for marriage equality
was handed down over the dissents of four justices, each of whom wrote
their own dissenting opinion. Of these, by far the most thoughtful and
the most significant was Chief Justice John Roberts’s dissent. Roberts
rejected the Constitution’s promise of marriage equality — a view which
The Onion quipped will someday lead to him being a villain
“in an Oscar-winning film about the fight for marriage equality.” Yet,
in the process of reaching his conclusion, Roberts also rejected a
particularly aggressive brand of judicial wingnuttery that is rapidly
becoming ascendant in wingnut legal circles.
The senator from Nevada scoffed at the Bureau of Land Management's
demand that Burning Man build it a $1m VIP compound with showers and
flush toilets, saying that the festival's ethic of radical self-reliance
should extend to its Fed minders.
“While I agree that the BLM should take its permitting duties seriously and work with Burning Man to both guarantee the safety of its participants and the protection of the environment, providing outlandishly unnecessary facilities for the BLM and its guests should be beyond the scope of the permitting requirements. Part of Burning Man’s philosophy is self-reliance and living with the elements is part of the experience. Flush toilets and laundry facilities can be found about ten miles away in Gerlach, Nevada, if BLM’s employees need such amenities,” Reid wrote, noting that he was an author of the legislation that designated the area a federally protected space.
According to the Reno paper, the request by the BLM is “unprecedented” in Burning Man’s more-than-two decade history, and would increase its 2015 permit fees to around $5 million. Burning Man organizers have refused so far to comply with the BLM’s request for the so-called Blue Pit compound.
We are going to win New Hampshire. We are going to win Iowa, and I think we are going to win the Democratic nomination, and I think we’re going to win the presidency.And I’ll tell you why, George, the American people are sick and tired of seeing the disappearance of the great middle class of this country. They’re sick and tired of working longer hour for lower wages while at the same time 99 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent and the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much as wealth as the bottom 90 percent.George, we have seen in the last 30 years a massive shift in wealth and income from ordinary Americans to the richest people in this country and the American people are saying, ‘Enough is enough.’ We need to create an economy that works for all of us and not just a handful of billionaires.
An annual CNBC scorecard that rates each state on 60 measures of
competitiveness finds that Democratic run Minnesota is the best state in
the country for business in 2015. The same study found that while
Republican-controlled states like Kansas and Arizona experienced sharp
declines in their business competitiveness, Minnesota Democratic
Governor Mark Dayton’s economic miracle has turned his state into the
nation’s best state for businesses.
But Minnesota doesn’t just stumble into the top spot by accident. The state’s path to the top is marked by a carefully crafted and still controversial strategy by Gov. Mark Dayton, the first Democrat to hold the office in two decades. The hallmark of his plan is something most governors seeking to win the hearts of business would never dream of: a big tax increase.
• A Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
• Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS.
• Texas personal identification card issued by DPS.
• Texas concealed handgun license issued by DPS.
• U.S. military identification card containing the person’s photograph.
• U.S. citizenship certificate containing the person’s photograph.
• U.S. passport.So, yes to voting in Texas with a concealed handgun license but no-go for someone presenting a student ID.