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This is about all of us, this is about you,” Gavin Newsom declared this week, his eyes boring into the lens of a camera. In a televised speech styled like a State of the Union address, the California governor warned that the scenes in Los Angeles, where thousands of military troops took to the streets this week to clamp down on protests against President Trump’s immigration raids, were a taste of things to come. “Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived,” he said. Newsom’s latest battle...

@krassenstein BREAKING: Ron Johnson reportedly has enough votes to block Trump’s “big beautiful bill” including Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham. Republicans are in disarray.

Just watched Part 2 of season 5 (for the second time) where Dutton gets sworn in as governor. Did anyone notice the following: Singing of the National Anthem was MUTED. Dutton, Beth and the new Senator did not cover their heart or make any effort to display their allegiance to our country during the singing of the National Anthem. We all know that Kevin Costner is a liberal. But now, we also know that Taylor Caldwell is one as well. Kelly Reilly, well, she's just an import.

E-mail notification today from FactCheck.org announcing their new web presence, FactCheckED.org, purporting to help "high school students learn to think analytically"... To our subscribers: This e-mail feels a bit like a birth announcement. Last Thursday night, we flipped the switch to start up a brand new website, a sibling to FactCheck.org. This one, though, is focused on helping high school students learn to think analytically. The new site, www.FactCheckED.org, recognizes that kids are growing up in a world of ceaseless and instantaneous communication. Accurate and unbiased information can be an elusive commodity in this constant stream of messages – many...

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The former number two editor of the Washington Post, Robert Kaiser, yearns for the U.S. to follow the cradle-to-grave welfare state system enacted in Finland. In a Sunday Outlook section piece, "In Finland's Footsteps: If We're So Rich and Smart, Why Aren't We More Like Them?," Kaiser contended that "for a patriotic American like me, the Finns present a difficult challenge: If we Americans are so rich and so smart, why can't we treat our citizens as well as the Finns do?" The former Post Managing Editor, who is now an Associate Editor, listed the free services Finns get: "They...

YOUR TYPICAL practitioner of right-wing hate radio, whose daily rants feature not just a radical ideology but healthy doses of sexism, racism and homophobia, doesn't ordinarily get to interview someone like the vice president.But there was Dick Cheney just last month cozying up to Rush Limbaugh - and not for the first time. But wait - Rush Limbaugh, the most popular radio host in America, a purveyor of "right-wing hate radio?" Absolutely.

COMMENTARY Beinart: Truth is, Hillary has always been a centrist Peter Beinart, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST Advertisement Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Hillary Clinton has moved to the center in preparation for 2008. It's become a cliche — so self-evidently true that it shows up not merely in editorials but in news articles as well. One of the reasons it's so uncontroversial is that it seems innocuous, even flattering. It shows how shrewd a politician Clinton is. She knows Democrats must do better among hawkish, culturally traditional voters — so she's moving in that direction herself. But in fact the...

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE Rates of Household Firearm Ownership and Homicide Across US Regions and States, 1988–1997 Matthew Miller, MD, MPH, ScD, Deborah Azrael, MS, PhD and David Hemenway, PhD Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and David Hemenway are all from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Matthew Miller, MD, MPH, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: mmiller@hsph.harvard.edu). ABSTRACT Objectives. In this study we explored the association between rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across the United States, by age groups. Methods. We used...