Undernews: March 20, 2014
Undernews: March 20, 2014
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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
Dems want to fix Obamacare, but can't say how
Blacks and Irish:: A complex story
Tales from the attic: The school prayer amendment
What they teach where Bill Gates and his family went and go to school
Another friend of Bill Clinton's
Word: Intelligence abuse is getting far worse
Pacific ocean scallops dying off from acidity
A half century ago, MLK described the strategy that still drives the American...
Federal drug prosecutions at lowest level in 14 years
Rob Ford faces interesting challenger
FBI doesn't care about mortgage fraud
Why we should keep out of Ukraine
A brief history of Ukraine that we didn't worry about
Pelosi hints CIA might be blackmailing Congress
Latinos become dominant ethnicity in California
Why Justice Ginsberg should retire
Law schools boosting recent grads' salaries to improve their rankings
Pacifica Radio in deep trouble
Problems we hadn't started worrying about yet
45 religious organizations back 'universal access to contraception'
McConnell's campaign uses police to bar reporter from news conference
Oscar Peterson explains piano styles to Dick Cavett
Why a guaranteed income makes sense
Netherlands' cycle paths began 100 years ago
The apartheid of children's books: Of 3,200 children's books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people,
Head of Southern Command admits he can't stop 80% of Colombia's drug shipments to US
Unskilled and destitute are hiring targets for Fukushima cleanup
Police fail to get the message: Cops Arrest 228 At Police Brutality Protest in Montreal
Morning
line
President: If Romney enters the race he
would take the GOP nomination. The rest of the candidates
are within a statistical tie of each other with the
exception of four losers: Rubio, Jindall, Santorum and
Walker.
Clinton has a a double digit lead against most likely GOP candidates, with the exception of Romney whom she leads by 9. She leads her closest Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, by 54 points.
It is possible for the GOP to pick up 19 electoral votes based on the current moving averages of polls, but in 2012 Obama won by 126 electoral votes.
Action notes
McDonald’s workers in New York,
California and Michigan filed class action suits against the
chain, as well as several franchises, for wage theft
violations. The cases accuse the fast-food giant of
“systematically stealing employees’ wages by forcing
them to work off the clock, shaving hours off their time
cards and not paying them overtime, among other
practices,” according to a press release by the workers’
lawyers.
Seattle teachers boycott standardized tests
Word
Unless you become more
watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly
and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end
find that the most important powers of government have been
given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest
interests have been passed into the hands of these
corporations. --Andrew Jackson
Pocket
paradigms
Liberalism has become the abused
spouse of the Democratic right. - Sam
Smith