We’ll see what happens, but Senator Murphy has it right. This is simple stuff. Trump promised to cover everyone. He is now pushing a bill that ends insurance for millions. Promise broken. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 8, 2017
On Facebook I mentioned that I had bought Hipper Than Hip by Tower of Power on the recommendation of a friend who once worked for the band. It arrived today and it is great. Here’s one of the tracks from the album, a live version of “Soul Vaccination” from 1973. That was one year before …
Here are Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell singing “Hanging up my Heart” from their 2013 Grammy-winning album Old Yellow Moon. They have since released another album, The Traveling Kind. Crowell was a member of Emmylou’s Hot Band back in the 1980s and she’s been performing his compositions ever since, but it wasn’t till this decade …
Odd memory snuck up on me this evening; Mom, Dad and I were in a car driving at night and I was anxious that we get home soon. Why? Because I was afraid I’d miss that night’s episode of Huckleberry Hound. There was snow on the side of the road in this memory, which means …
Oh what the hell. Let’s separate parents from children at the border. They shouldn’t be there in the first place, so why not? The policy shift would allow the government to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum hearings. Children would be put into protective custody with the Department of …
Headline: Climate, Other Programs Get Deep Cuts in EPA Budget Proposal Under the tentative plan from the Office of Management and Budget, the agency’s funding would be reduced by roughly 25 percent and about 3,000 jobs would be cut, about 19 percent of the agency’s staff. [snip] The draft proposal for the EPA would cut …
I have had a candy bar or flip phone ever since I succumbed to my first cellphone purchase in 2006 when I realized it would be useful to have one in case the car died while I was in it. Finally, today, I bought an actual smart phone. Not the six or seven hundred dollar …
WaPo Headline Thursday March 2, 2017: “Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose” Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign …
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