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Jurisdictions in at least four states - Vermont, Michigan, Mississippi and Wisconsin - failed to send absentee ballots to members of the military by the required September 22 deadline, Breitbart.com reported Monday.
Republican lawmakers sent a letter to the Departments of Justice and Defense demanding assurances that the rights of military personnel and overseas citizens who vote absentee will be protected in the November elections after learning the states failed to mail the ballots by the deadline, the Army Times said.
“We are concerned that, absent prompt and effective remedial action, some men and women in uniform will be deprived of the 45-day window to vote guaranteed by the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act," wrote Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-CA), chairman of the House Administration Committee and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Exactly two years ago this week, the Obama administration announced it had issued more than 100 waivers en masse to a select group of companies, unions and other health insurance providers seeking relief from the onerous federal health care law. The ObamaCare waiver winner's club now totals 2,000. Where are they now?
Answer: In the same miserable boat as every other unlucky business struggling with the crushing costs and burdens of the mandate.
Among the first and most prominent recipients of the ObamaCare waivers for favors were large restaurant chains that provide low-wage, seasonal and part-time workers with low-cost health insurance plans called "mini-med" plans. An estimated 1.7 million workers benefit from such plans. Obamacare forced companies carrying such coverage to raise their minimum limits on coverage to no less than $750,000 annually. Another ObamaCare provision forces all employers to spend at least 80 percent to 85 percent of their premium revenue on medical care.
The CEO of Red Lobster and Olive Garden is black. But no matter. Regardless of the actual facts, economic realities and entirely predictable and inevitable consequences of command-and-control government mandates, it's always about identity politics for the Obama grievance mob. In good times and bad, the left never grants waivers from the race card.
Operation Fast and Furious vindicates everything that conservatives and libertarians say about the government and the mainstream media.
I have never been one of those “rise at the crack of dawn to get the best deal” kind of person on Black Friday. However, a couple of years ago when our seven-year-old television was dying, I began looking for a new one
The most popular brand of douche was Lysol—an antiseptic soap whose pre-1953 formula contained cresol, a phenol compound reported in some cases to cause inflammation, burning, and even death. By 1911 doctors had recorded 193 Lysol poisonings and five deaths from uterine irrigation. Despite reports to the contrary, Lysol was aggressively marketed to women as safe and gentle. Once cresol was replaced with ortho-hydroxydiphenyl in the formula, Lysol was pushed as a germicide good for cleaning toilet bowls and treating ringworm, and Lehn & Fink's, the company that made the disinfectant, continued to market it as safeguard for women's "dainty feminine allure."
The software for the PC upgrade is will soon be entering beta testing. In the meantime I wanted to address some questions and list some interesting new features in Politicollision’s upcoming upgrade.
First, let’s talk about features. PC is going to have some major updates to bring it up to speed with some of the latest trends. If I was to try to list out all of the new features and bug fixes, this page would seemingly go on for ages so here is an abbreviated list of some of the features I am most excited about.
• Responsive Design. I want to present a beautiful browsing experience no matter what device you are viewing the site on. The Bootstrap-based front end and admin templates will accommodate computer, tablet, and mobile screens.
• Up + Down Voting. The new default voting method for PC is through up and down buttons.
• Infinite Scrolling. Why lose visitors by making them click through pagination links to continue reading? The new infinite scrolling feature (optional) will automatically load the next page’s content when you approach the bottom of a page.
• Multiple Level Commenting. Continue the discussion with as many levels of sub-comments that you need.
• Comment Permalinks. Similar to Reddit.com, you can now link to the start of a specific comment thread.
• Improved User Profiles. User profile pages will now feature Skype, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest links.
• Change Authors. Want to attribute an article to another member? Edit the author from the edit story page.
• Maintenance Mode. Similar to WordPress’ method, display a message to non-admin users when you need to temporarily bring your site down for maintenance.
• Password Reset Method. PC now emails you a link so that you can choose the new password when you forget it.
More information to follow as it comes available.
FTA: "...a presentation of Thanksgiving Proclamations in honor, deference and praise to God, in gratitude for His blessings upon America, and other countries as well. Included are sermons and discourses regarding the holiday."
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Four separatist parties in Spain's Catalonia looked set to win a majority in regional elections on Sunday, partial results showed, but the main one was on course to lose some seats, possibly undermining its bid to call an independence referendum.
With half of votes counted, the ruling Convergence and Union alliance, or CiU, was winning 48 seats in the 135-seat local parliament, well down from its current 62 seats.
The separatist Republican Left, or ERC, was winning 20 seats, with two other smaller separatist parties taking a total of 16 seats, giving the four parties 60 percent between them.
Nancy Pelosi asked, “Is there not an appreciation for the Jewish holidays? The Christmas holiday? Kwanzaa?
Ron “Maulana” Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the first specifically African-American holiday. Kwanzaa celebrates race. Anybody who argues that Kwanzaa is not comparable to Christmas is, of course, a racist. But Kwanzaa is all about race. It is a black-only celebration.
Kwanzaa is more than a celebration of black history and culture, something that Black History Month does. In 1965s, Karenga was a co-founder of “US Organization,” or “Organization Us,” as in “us and them,” a violent Black Nationalist group. The Black Panthers were ideological and political rivals of the US Organization, describing them as “United Slaves.”
Operation Fast and Furious vindicates everything that conservatives and libertarians say about the government and the mainstream media.
In an article posted Thursday at Freedomworks, Benji Backer, a freshman attending high school in Appleton, Wisc., says that he is being bullied by some of his teachers for his conservative views and support for conservative candidates.
Backer called his post a "timeline of the most extreme cases of harassment and indoctrination I have had in the three different public schools I have attended over the last three years."
He started by explaining how his geography teacher would "frequently" take him aside after school to call him "stupid, wrong and misguided" for being a Republican after he was featured on the front page of the local paper for his political activism.
