For some reason, this story didn't really grab my attention the first time I saw it
U.S. Senator Dan Coats testified today in support of a bill he’s authoring that would give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of the Army the authority to disinter veterans buried in national cemeteries who committed a federal or state capital crime.
The only thing we know for certain is that we can't know anything for certain. Unless, of course, you're one of those reality deniers:
The 17-year pause in global warming is likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already started to recover, according to new research.
As someone with strong libertarian instincts, this is a dilemma I've struggled with for most of my voting life:
Well, that was an interesting coincidence, or a bit of fortuitous timing, or something. I came across this post when I started cruising the web at work this morning:
The rhetorical ground is already being set, with these two races its supposed proofs: look at how well Chris Christie did in a blue state! Look at how Cuccineli’s extremism lost us Virginia!
She is, alas, destined to be disappointed by reality:
First Lady Michelle Obama held a news conference last night, where she predicted that one day, children would go out on Halloween and beg for healthy food instead of candy.
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USA Today recruits a Rutgers professor to parrot the moderate/progressive opinion that poor Marco Rubio got in trouble because he decided to be reasonable about immigration reform and thus pissed off the Republican base of rightwing whack jobs, and had to back off to appease them:
Should children have the right to ask for their own deaths?
George Will: Obamacare is applied Bloomberg-ism:
The Indianapolis Business Journal has a long and interesting piece about the not-quite-dead-yet movement to shrink local government in Indiana, noting that Mitch Daniels, chief cheerleader for the cause, is still weighing in on the subjext:
