Fox Panelist: Rape victims need to take more “personal responsibility” to prevent rape. Watch.
During the North Carolina debate tonight, Republican nominee Thom Tillis trotted out a new line of attack that his fellow Republican Senate candidate in Colorado, Cory Gardner, tried out this week too: Win over women voters by trying to seem in favor of greater access to contraception by pushing for over-the-counter access.
In the seventeen years between 1992 and 2009, the Russian population declined by almost seven million people, or nearly 5 percent—a rate of loss unheard of in Europe since World War II. Moreover, much of this appears to be caused by rising mortality. By the mid-1990s, the average St. Petersburg man lived for seven fewer years than he did at the end of the Communist period; in Moscow, the dip was even greater, with death coming nearly eight years sooner.
This is one paragraph from Masha Gessen’s story in The New York Review of Books on ‘The Dying Russians’. I knew that in the bleak years just after the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russian mortality rates had spiked dramatically – a mix of profound economic dislocation, hopelessness about the future, poor health both driving and being driven by these factors. What I did realize is that this pattern has continued unabated ever since.
The plight of more than a million uninsured people in five red states hangs in the balance in November. Each state has refused to expand Medicaid through Obamacare under a Republican governor. Each is facing a stiff challenge from a Democratic opponent who supports Medicaid expansion. So much is riding on the outcome of those races that in two of the states Republican legislatures fearful of Democratic victory have passed laws reining in the power of the governor to unilaterally expand Medicaid. Dylan Scott reports.
Big decision by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this morning to rehear the Halbig case on Obamacare subsidies. Sahil Kapur has the details on why this procedural move has such big implications.
Maine Governor LePage points to Great Wall of China as instructive example of effective border control.
Jury reportedly reaches verdict in trial of the McDonnells of Virginia. More soon.
Two fascinating posts about why the Kansas Senate race – which basically wasn’t on anyone’s radar – suddenly became about the most interesting one in the country.
And don’t take my word for it: the national GOP just sent in the cavalry.
Not only was former Gov. McDonnell found guilty. But let’s be frank: he set back the “MY WIFE BE CRAZY” defense by probably a generation.