As you can see from my note below, I’m extremely interested in this House Republican rule change which appears aimed at triggering a manufactured crisis in Social Security financing – and laying the groundwork for cuts in the program. We’re going to follow up on this story aggressively today and going forwar and try to find out and share with you as much as we can about what’s behind it, what’s likely to emerge from it and more. Stay tuned. I’m also very interested – over the next couple years – in finding out what is going in the states.
Sen. Warren (D) blasts new GOP effort to manufacture a Social Security funding crisis.
The FBI is looking for a balding white man in his 40s driving a beat up pick up in connection with a bomb detonated outside an NAACP office in Colorado Springs.
Top national police union says Congress should make violence against cops a hate crime.
I’m fascinated by this, a bit surprised and just want to see exactly where this goes. In the rules to organize the new Congress, Republicans put a rule in effect the intent of which is to force a manufactured crisis in Social Security financing and set the stage for the cuts they’ve been hankering for for years. Again, on day one. Let’s definitely keep an eye on this.
Kashana Cauley on how African-American success often remains invisible to people of all races, even for African-Americans who have succeeded in every way our society judges success.
It looks like North Carolina, under unified GOP control, will likely be next to give up the ghost on Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Why the new GOP majorities have every incentive to keep gridlock going strong.
Two New York City police officers were shot this evening in the Bronx just after 10:30 Monday evening. They were responding to a robbery. Neither officers’ injuries appear to be life-threatening. A major manhunt is currently underway.
NYPD officials do not believe the officers were targeted.