Topic “US Domestic Politics”

Gay rights organizer Henry Gerber published an article in Modern Thinker magazine attacking the view that homosexuality is a neurosis. In 1924, Henry Gerber, a postal worker in Chicago, started the Society for Human Rights, America's first known gay rights organization. http://bit.ly/15pzW3j

MMJ Ingredient Prevents Brain Damage in Mice
CN By Geoffrey Mohan May 31, 2013 Los Angeles Times

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/joe-arpaio-recall_n_3362542.html

Republican bill wants market rates plus 2-2.5%, but they put a cap on it at 8%  100k @8% is hefty.

A republican freshman says this issue of a 'few more dollars' on their student loans is a distraction from Benghazi and Obama's policies. A few more dollars is how the party that lost big time among college students addresses it. College students take courses on compund interest

The party that is trying to restrict student's voting rights wants to gouge them while offering no interest loans to banks wonders why their brand is unpopular.

 Film: The Bro Code, how contemporary culture creates sexist men

Look at who Obama nominates for head of the FBI. He can't do any better than a recycled Bush employee and someone who has worked for defense companies and hedge funds? No wonder the country is going to the right-Repub presidents only appoint repubs and Obama appoints center-right picks. This guy sounds like another John Roberts-and we know how that turned out.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fbi-comey-20130531,...

According to Wisconsin's 4th District Court of Appeals, that state has the right to disenfranchise low-income voters.  Yesterday, that court sided with Republican lawmakers, and upheld Wisconsin's controversial voter ID law.   The GOP lawmakers passed the contentious bill two years ago, under the guise of preventing voter fraud.  

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered (in a unanimous decision known as Brown II after the 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education) that school integration be implemented “with all deliberate speed,” ordering the lower federal courts to require the desegregation of public schools. http://bit.ly/1aHWPiT

http://jonathanturley.org/2013/05/29/fire-eric-holder/

"The ‘sin eater’

Iranian Arsonists Warn of Middle East Fire Hazard