Rep. King calls for jailing of Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald calls King a supporter of terrorism. And the kicker is that Greenwald’s at least half right.
I’ve got a really high threshold when it comes to things said by politician’s teenage children. But when they’re going by the online handle ‘n1ggerkiller’ and spouting anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs I think that passes the threshold.
I’m curious whether Greenwald/Guardian declined to publish Snowden’s new claims about US hacking in Hong Kong and mainland China, which appeared in the South China Morning Post.
Maine Republican says men’s brains more focused on health care costs.
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.
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.
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.