Let’s not mince words. It’s hard being a white person in America. I hadn’t noticed this but that’s what everyone seems to say. So I was struck when a group of stories came together today in what seemed like a serendipitous way. Read More
11 year old Sebastien De La Cruz sings Star-Spangled Banner at NBA finals game, gets deluged by racist tweets telling him to go back to Mexico.
Turkey Prime Minister Erdogan to protestors: “We have arrived at the end of our patience. I am giving you my final warning.”
Rubio: “If this bill has something in it that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill. I’m done.”
Republicans meet in a major GOP confab in DC today hosted by Ralph Reed and focusing on getting the party to double down on opposition to gay marriage, abortion and gender equality.
Most of you of a certain age must remember that “Crying Indian” public service announcement from the 70s with the ‘Indian’ (who I think was actually an Italian-American actor) shedding a tear for the destruction of the environment. I was imagining a similar ad only with Pat Buchanan over this story which says that whites are no longer a majority among Americans under the age of 5.
Remember Jan Brewer, the whacky Republican Governor of Arizona who talked about decapitated heads out in the desert and all the rest? Well, she’s become a warrior for Obamacare in her state. Go figure.
Because I have people I know who are affected it (and frankly we all do or will) I could not be happier that the Supreme Court, unanimously, has struck down a private company’s ability to patent a naturally occurring gene in your body.
There is certainly a place for modalities that incentive critical research that can save lives. But the idea that naturally-occurring genes (the existence of which can be critical to your health) can be patented and thus owned was simply a crazy path to go down.