Saying that “it’s important we start early,” Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in one of the first major moves of the 2016 cycle.
Share on FacebookTeacher training programs get poor marks?….What about the increased testing?
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I was in shock, really,” said Grelck, whose undergraduate semester as a student teacher in an affluent school did not prepare her for her first full-time job teaching in a high-poverty classroom in Chambord, Ill. “I really loved the [university] program, while I was in it. But I really felt like I needed more of the realities of teaching…….
Share on FacebookFlorida Gov Rick Scott is inching back up in the polls….
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott trails two potential 2014 challengers by 10 points in a new poll, but the numbers show the governor is closing the gap and his approval rating is the highest ever…….
Share on FacebookKarzai announces HIS troops are now in charge in Afghanistan….
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“This is a historic moment for our country and from tomorrow all of the security operations will be in the hands of the Afghan security forces,” Karzai said according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. had been leading security operations in the country since ousting the Taliban in a war that began in 2001.
Share on FacebookJohn Boehner has a problem …The Immigration Bill….
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Said one GOP leadership aide: “Our conference is all over the place. Our goal here is to try and find that little slice of land where we can walk through and we’re not crucified on either side.”
Share on FacebookIn the end…The NSA is goona keep doing what they are doing…
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The media (and this place ) has detailed some of the stuff the NSA is doing , but we don’t know ALL the stuff they are into….Congress members are taking exception to the NSA actions but the ones doing so are NOT the leaders of the committee’s that are SOLIDLY behind the programs….
There where House and Senate Amendments to change things last week….They got deep six-ed ten minutes later…..
Personally, I don’t think the Supreme’s are gonna touch this with a ten foot pole….
Even THEY dodn’t want be holding the bag is something goes down and the NSA says ‘well we where told to stop listening….”
Share on FacebookNY Governor Cuomo drops in the polls….
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Despite statewide blitzes to promote various proposals and recent announcements of deals with the state’s Indian tribes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s poll standing is at its lowest point since he took office in January, 2011, a survey released this morningby the Siena Research Institute finds.
Share on FacebookMore Sequester cuts coming this summer….
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We expect aggregate government-worker income to decline in May given that furloughs started in late May. The first day of government wide furloughs was on May 24, when roughly 115,000 federal workers, or 5% of the total federal work force, stayed home without pay. However, with the majority of the furloughs not kicking in until the beginning of July, including the Pentagon’s 680,000 furloughs beginning July 8, the real income shock will not show up until the July personal income and outlay report on Aug. 30.
Share on FacebookObama is moving towards Bush approval levels in some places in Europe….
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A Gallup poll published in March showed that the public approval of U.S. leadership in Europe has dropped 11 percentage points since Obama’s first year in office, to 36 percent, although it is still far higher than it was during the Bush administration’s final year….
Share on FacebookTexans want Cruz Over Perry for President…Rick Perry leads for Governor for 2014…Poll….
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A quarter of those polled chose Cruz, who was followed by U.S. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, at 13 percent, and Marco Rubio of Florida, at 11 percent. Perry was next at 10 percent, followed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
Share on FacebookPolitical Roundup for June 17, 2013…Brian Schweitzer running in Montana?…Red Racing Horses….
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest 6/17/13: How Art Pope killed public funding for judicial elections in NC
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Jordan, as it turns out, owed his office to Pope, who funded his first campaign in 2010 with over $100,000, so he probably should have expected to get this offer he couldn’t refuse, whatever it may have been. A sad day indeed for North Carolina….
Share on FacebookChristie does NOT endorse Booker’s GOP challanger….
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Christie’s decision to authorize a special October election for the Senate vacancy created by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s death essentially cleared the Republican field, leaving Lonegan in position to become the party’s standard-bearer. But the Republican governor has been coy about whether he will officially endorse his former rival.
Share on FacebookSupreme’s Void Arizona Proof of Citizenship voting rule….
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Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, No. 12-71, said a federal law requiring states to “accept and use” a federal form displaced an Arizona law.
Share on FacebookOn Rahm Emanuel and Chicago….
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To the surprise of no one familiar with his Washington reputation, many see the mayor as combative, refusing to take public input seriously, and allied so closely to his tight pool of corporate benefactors that the nickname “Mayor 1%” and Twitter hashtag #OneTermMayor have gone viral. Even some members of his party — a tribe that rarely breaks ranks — are scratching their heads in public……
Share on FacebookMore details on What the NSA does and How they do it….
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……the internet changed everything, turning a well-monitored trickle of data into a high pressure firehose surveillance organizations rushed to capitalize on but found overwhelming in volume, rapidly falling behind both in technology, capacity and funding.
Again, 9/11 changed everything, when failing in their basic mission to intercept a threat, the organization got the argument and unquestioning compliance of the Executive and Congressional branches to fund an unprecedented expansion, including the justification to expand surveillance domestically…..
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