Why Are Republicans Plotting To Sabotage A Crackdown On Tax Evasion?

 Activists will reportedly make repealing a law cracking down on tax evasion an official party goal at this week's Republican ... Read more

Why Target’s Part-Time Employees Will Be Better Off Under Obamacare

Target will send employees who work 30 hours or less per week off to Obamacare's marketplaces -- and that's a very good ... Read more

Europe Just Set Out To Cut Its Carbon Emissions 40 Percent By 2030

Environmental groups called the targets inadequate, but the framework does make the EU the first group of nations to pledge ... Read more

Hate to Stand In Line?

On election night in 2012, a newly re-elected President Barack Obama uttered an important aside in his speech: "I want to thank ... Read more

WCJ: 'Perhaps America Will Throw This Marxist Out Of Office And Imprison Him For Treason'

Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this video produced by the Western Center for Journalism, the group seeks to explain how President Obama is a communist out to destroy America.

http://youtu.be/6GltQk0gr6U

Texas Bent on Executing Mexican It Arrested Illegally - Lone Star state shrugs over protests as man set to die tonight

Edgar Arias Tamayo is scheduled to be executed in Texas tonight—despite a number of high-level requests that the execution be halted because Tamayo's arrest violated international law.

http://www.newser.com/story/181098/texas-bent-on-executing-mexican-it-arrested-illegally.html

Debate: Atheists vs New Age (Harris + Shermer vs Chopra + Houston)

Debate Topic: Does god have a future?

http://youtu.be/177icxRvUeI

RWW News: Beck Says Bill Nye Is Like Those Who Tried To Silence Galileo

Glenn Beck says Bill Nye is on the wrong side of history and is like those who tried to silence Galileo.

How A Stone And The Woman Holding It Made A Bigot Back Down

"Pamela Raintree and her stone are being celebrated by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Shreveport, Louisiana, for their incredible parts in sustaining the city's LGBT non-discrimination ordinance, which was under threat of repeal.

As Towleroad notes, the transgender woman recently confronted Councilman Ron Webb, the single dissenting vote against the ordinance, which passed in December, and the mastermind behind a repeal of the law."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

http://youtu.be/vxzTYoDtyQA

President Obama Isn't 'Playing The Race Card'

"Don Lemon led an intense panel discussion Monday night over President Obama's comments about race and whether, as Republican strategist Alice Stewart argued, it was Obama "playing the race card" or if he was just "stating the obvious" about how there are just some white people and black people who make their judgments of the president's performance based on his skin color...".* Ana Kasparian, Dave Rubin (host, The Rubin Report) and Desi Doyen (host, Green News Report) break it down on The Young Turks.

http://youtu.be/TFtfyIBQGQ8

Charter For Creationism?: Activist Finds Questionable Science In Tax-Funded School Chain

"A Texas charter school chain's science curriculum is studded with common creationist canards..."

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Republicans Seek To Sabotage Obamacare With Higher Premiums

Conservative wonks and Republican lawmakers are coalescing around a new strategy to sabotage Obamacare by repealing a temporary piece of the law desig... Read more

If You See Something, Say Something: Another Top Climatologist On The Necessity Of Speaking Out

 Obama just told The New Yorker, "I think we are fortunate at the moment that we do not face a crisis of the scale and scope ... Read more

5 telltale signs you received a fake Target email

"Target is sending out millions of emails to customers who had their personal information stolen in the recent security breach, and scammers are coming out of the woodwork..." 
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Michigan Official: Let's 'Herd all the Indians' to Detroit - In Florida, meanwhile, a candidate wants Obama hanged

"Detroit: In an interview with the New Yorker, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said this: “I made a prediction a long time ago, and it’s come to pass. I said, 'What we’re gonna do is turn Detroit into an Indian reservation, where we herd all the Indians into the city, build a fence around it, and then throw in the blankets and the corn.'..."

http://www.newser.com/story/181091/michigan-official-lets-herd-all-the-indians-to-detroit.html

New Safe Method to Conduct Miller-Urey Experiments

"Researchers have developed a new, safer and simplified approach to the method used by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953.
Miller-Urey experiments were aimed to figure out the origin of life on the Earth. Their research concluded that organic compounds were important for the origin of life on primitive earth..."

http://www.frenchtribune.com/teneur/1421606-new-safe-method-conduct-miller-urey-experiments

Article: India Almost Doubled Its Solar Power In 2013 With Big Plans For More

India added just over 1 gigawatt of solar energy to its electrical grid last year, a major milestone that nearly doubles the country’s cumulative solar energy capacity to 2.18 gigawatts. After a slow start to the year, solar installation picked up rapidly — a good sign that India will be able to meet its ambitious solar targets going forward. India hopes to install 10 GW of solar by 2017 and 20 GW by 2022.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/21/3184561/india-solar-target-success/

As Flu Season Intensifies, Most Americans Can Now Get Their Shots For Free Under Obamacare

"Flu season is hitting younger Americans particularly hard this year, largely because they’re forgoing the vaccine. But one thing that might motivate more Americans to get a shot is the fact that for many of them, it’s now completely free.

Obamacare requires any preventative care deemed important by a government task force of doctors and public health experts to be covered without a co-pay. Many Americans don’t realize that those regulations actually affect every American insurance plan, not just ones sold through the state and federal Obamacare marketplaces. The only policies that aren’t subject to these requirements are a handful of older plans that existed before the law’s passage in 2010 that were “grandfathered” out of the regulations (and even these plans will eventually cease to exist)..."

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/21/3185821/obamacare-flu-shots-free/

Florida State House Candidate Calls For Execution Of President Obama

Joshua Black, a Republican candidate for Florida’s state House of Representatives, tweeted Monday that President Obama should be hanged for treason.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/21/3186811/florida-state-house-hang-obama/

Chinese Pollution Is Making Its Way to the West Coast, and It's America's Fault

The stifling air pollution you keep reading about in China is actually a byproduct of American outsourcing and now that pollution is drifting across the globe to the Western U.S. At least, that's the claim made by a new study, that the paper's co-authors called a "boomerang" effect...
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/01/china-pollution-west-coast/357206/