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As recently as 1990, women of all educational levels earned about the same percent of the hourly wages of men with the same education. To the extent the gendered “wage gap” varied, college educated women enjoyed slightly more parity with men than working class women. By 2007, the wage gap varied dramatically by class. College-educated women earned a smaller percentage of the hourly income of thei...
Wash Park Prophet - 10:21 p.m.
Somebody correctly points out that management consulting is about hiring prestigous outsiders to help CEOs win internal political battles in their businesses, not about providing particularly novel insights on the merits. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012) ...
Wash Park Prophet - 10:03 p.m.
An op-ed reprinted here aptly explains how the Congressional fight over SOPA has gone from being an inside the Beltway special interest struggle to a culture clash that has become a wedge issue that helps Republicans. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012) ...
Wash Park Prophet - 9:27 p.m.
Today's highlights of correctional official disregard for the health of inmates involve, this case out of Seattle, Washington: A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state. . . . Imka Pope's civil rights case against King County. . . . [J]ail nurses and corrections officers violated her civil rights in 1997 by dismissing her c...
Wash Park Prophet - 8:07 p.m.
The C-27J program was a fixed wing aircraft that could carry large transport helicopter sized loads for the Army over longer ranges at greater speeds with more fuel efficiency than a helicopter and could takeoff and land from field airstrips. It did everything a transport helicopter did better in situations where field airstrips were available at both ends, which they frequently are in cargo runs....
Wash Park Prophet - 5:20 p.m. - 7 clicks 
The liberal Center for American Progress caught this magnificent Mitt Romney deer-in-the-headlights moment on public lands policy, in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal last night. It's hard to imagine how this could have gone worse: I don't know the reason that the federal government owns such a large share of Nevada. [Pols emphasis] And when I was in Utah at t...
Colorado Pols - 2:04 p.m.
Depending on variations in the definition you use, peak oil may have already happened as late as 2005 (based on an econometric elasticity of oil supply to oil price definition), or may be just five years away, in 2017, as an Australian government report suggests. We are right in the middle of this range at the moment. We have probably reached a technological point where peak oil does not imply...
Wash Park Prophet - 9:44 a.m.
The major snowstorm that hit Denver today has kept everyone indoors, at least for a while. We take it differently. My wife, a Pilates instructor, and my son, an avid cross country runner and soccer player in season, a bouncing off the walls. When they don't get their regular exercise fixes they get an intense physical and emotional craving to work out. My son ranges wildly around the house, ju...
Wash Park Prophet - 8:41 a.m. - 10 clicks
Being in the military for grunts can be an incredibly depressing ‘lifestyle’ experience. The top brass knows that, so how do they respond when a soldier gets fed up and tries to desert the ranks by trying to kill himself? Why with typical military sensitivity, that’s how! See this news story about one grunt’s experiences [...]...
Not My Tribe - 6:28 a.m.
"This Romney thing, it's all about reflexes--and it pains me to say this stuff. This show has not been easy. You don't... Well, maybe you do know, but he just doesn't have conservative reflexes. It's like trying to learn golf late in life: The reflexes just aren't there. You've got to have a foundation, a basic understanding to have the reflexes, and they're just aren't there." --Rush Limbaugh,...
Colorado Pols - 4:49 a.m.
Let me first begin with how I was exposed to Ayn Rand. I am in high school and a while back my teacher was doing a course on homelessness. In a ‘prompt’ that she gave me which was what are the causes of homelessness I answered CAPITALISM. A week later I was astonished to get [...]...
Not My Tribe - Thu 8:22 p.m.
At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. drafted a political playbook for a fair deal. When robber barons and powerful financial Trusts controlled American finances, Roosevelt promised rural folks residing in Osawatomie, KS how he'd give them a fair shake. Because of Roosevelt's pledge, government began regulating Wall Street Trusts. The wealthy, previously paying less th...
SquareState - Thu 6:29 p.m.
UPDATE: Sen. Brandon Shaffer's release: LONGMONT: Today, Brandon Shaffer put an end to rumors that he would change directions and run in the 6th Congressional District. "While I appreciate the offers of support from those who asked me to consider running in CD6, I live in CD4, I understand CD4, and I plan to represent CD4 in Congress. In truth, this was an easy decision. My wife works at t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 9 clicks
A major snowstorm bearing down on Denver has closed the Colorado General Assembly Friday. Barring anything unexpected, Rep. Laura Bradford (?-Collbran) will drive home this evening, and decide some time this weekend whether or not to disaffiliate from the Republican Party--and if she does, whether to become and independent or, as has been reported a possibility, a Democrat. There's really no...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 9 clicks
Is this Gov. John Hickenlooper's first actual defeat? Denver Business Journal: Pinnacol board vice chairman John Plotkin sent Hickenlooper a letter Thursday morning saying that the company felt it needed to slow down what has been a fast-moving process. Several members of a governor's task force examining the privatization plan had made the complaint that things were moving too quickly at ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 2:23 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Beltway conventional wisdom : If Obama is on the rebound, someone forgot to tell swing voters in the most important up-for-grabs states in 2012. The idea is that while Obama may be up nationally, he's lagging in the battleground states. But is that true? It's not. You'll see why below. FLORIDA : It looks like the week of GOP primary campaigning in Florida didn't help their chanc...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Thu 1:02 p.m. - 18 clicks
UPDATE: For there's no confusion, WCVB-TV Boston , last September: "First, you're wrong. That's one. I have never supported the President's Recovery Act, the stimulus. No time, nowhere, no how," [Romney] told them. "That bill didn't work. Throwing $800 billion out the window, that stimulated something, but it was not properly spent." ----- As reported yesterday, GOP presidential frontrunne...
Colorado Pols - Thu 12:22 p.m. - 10 clicks
Via the former Colorado Senator's "protected" Twitter feed, here is a match absolutely, positively made in proper noun Heaven. Dave Schultheis (right), who serves on the state steering committee for Rick Santorum (left). Maybe the frothiest mixture ever concocted: Because we assume Santorum's staff monitors Google, here are some helpful links to articles that help elucidate who's hugging t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 11:41 a.m. - 14 clicks
Via Politico: DCCC's Red To Blue Candidates Outraised Republican Incumbents and Rivals The most vulnerable Republican incumbents are getting outraised and facing serious challenges from Democratic candidates, new Federal Election Commission fundraising reports show. The top-tier Red to Blue Democratic candidates outraised their Republican opponents, most of them incumbents, in the final qua...
Colorado Pols - Thu 10:41 a.m.
Is the all-things-pink breast cancer impresario bowing to Right-wing anti-abortion pressure in pulling their financial support for low-income breast exams provided by Planned Parenthood? That a nonprofit industry heavyweight like the Komen Foundation would shift its emphasis from helping the poor on quasi-moral grounds is deplorable, but hardly surprising. Their ubiquitous “breast cancer awa...
Not My Tribe - Thu 10:23 a.m.
The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby updates the Rep. Laura Bradford saga: "I'm frustrated and disappointed in the speaker of the House when last Friday on the phone, when we were discussing this, he said, 'You're toast,'" Bradford said. "This isn't about the last seven days. This has been going on for the past 15 months..." Regardless of the department's exoneration of Bradford,...
Colorado Pols - Thu 8:05 a.m. - 13 clicks
From the American Heritage Dictionary: red tape n. The collection or sequence of forms and procedures required to gain bureaucratic approval for something, especially when oppressively complex and time-consuming. (From its former use in tying British official documents.) We spent much of this afternoon listening to the state Senate Judiciary Committee's debate over of a pair of odd R...
Colorado Pols - Wed 6:01 p.m.
You can't roll your eyes much louder than this without pulling a muscle. As the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation pulled Planned Parenthood's grant funding this week, its Denver affiliate went rogue, announcing that Planned Parenthood will receive a grant for the upcoming grant cycle, through March of 2013. According to a Facebook post by the Denver affiliate, Komen has grante...
Colorado Pols - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 16 clicks
ABC News --remember, Tom Tancredo is a Republican again! Rick Santorum on Wednesday turned his sights westward, picking up the endorsement of a former Colorado congressman and pledging to remain in the race after his distant third-place showing in Florida. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo endorsed Santorum here calling him "a non-composite" candidate who stands by his convictions rather than chang...
Colorado Pols - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 15 clicks
a quick diary on a clear violation of the First Amendment. Josh Fox who made the documentary "Gasland" was ordered arrested by House Republicans for attempting to film and report on a hearing concerning fracking in natural gas drilling. From Huffpo's Zach Carter : In a stunning break with First Amendment policy on Capitol Hill, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highl...
SquareState - Wed 1:22 p.m.
Mitt Romney is to be commended for his honesty. This ranks right up there with "I like being able to fire people," and "corporations are people, my friend." Romney has shown that while he may have the golden touch for all of his personal investment choices, he has a tin ear for politics. Romney doesn't even bother trying to mask his contempt for non-rich Americans. Once again, Mitt Romney shows he...
Colorado Pols - Wed 12:46 p.m.
Seth notes exit poll results from the GOP primary showing that 71% of those voters were 50 years old or older (36% were sixty-five or older), while just 15% were under 40 years old (just 6% were under thirty). Romney won in every Republican demographic in Florida, and Gingrich came in second place in every Republican demographic in Florida. Their relative support showed little statistically si...
Wash Park Prophet - Wed 10:21 a.m.
UPDATE #3: A quick read of HB10-1271 , passed in the aftermath of Rep. Kathleen Curry being forced to contend as a write-in candidate for election, indicates that Rep. Laura Bradford would still need to campaign as a write-in either as an independent or Democratic candidate if she disaffiliates now. Although HB10-1271 reduced the amount of time a candidate must be registered with a give...
Colorado Pols - Wed 10:21 a.m. - 14 clicks
A tidbit from an article examining polygyny generally, which will need its own post, has a fascinating statistic about step-parent households (emphasis added): [E]mpirical work in monogamous societies indicates that higher degrees of relatedness among household members are associated with lower rates of abuse, neglect and homicide. Living in the same household with genetically unrelated adults...
Wash Park Prophet - Wed 9:29 a.m.
Park ranger shoots man with stun gun for walking dogs off-leash This authoritarian mentality is becoming more common everywhere across the US unfortunately....
Not My Tribe - Wed 9:29 a.m.
Republican Rep. Scott Tipton continues to underwhelm in his bid to win re-election in CD-3. According to his fundraising report for Q4 filed late yesterday, Tipton raised $176,532 in the last three months of 2011. That's a pretty weak quarter for a targeted incumbent, but what's even stranger is that Tipton spent $435 more than he raised ($176,967 in expenditures for Q4). Tipton's campaign spe...
Colorado Pols - Wed 9:29 a.m.
The tactics nationally of the Occupy Movement have led to the continuing demobilization of this once broadly popular effort to kindle opposition to current ruling Establishment politics. Several comments by participants in Oakland Occupy’s recent engagements with the police there shed light on some of what is going wrong with this movement for change that [...]...
Not My Tribe - Wed 9:03 a.m.
Check out the press release we just received from Mitt Romney's campaign: Boston, MA - Mitt Romney today announced the support of the members of the Douglas County Colorado Board of Education. "I'm truly grateful to earn the support of the members of the Douglas County Board of Education for my education reform agenda," said Mitt Romney. "They share my vision of taking control of our children...
Colorado Pols - Wed 9:03 a.m. - 15 clicks
This Saturday, there will be a national mobilization of the remaining elements of the US Antiwar Movement in demonstrations calling for an end to the US-NATO attack against Iran. Why do I call the people concerned with stopping this aggression ‘the remaining elements’? Simply put, it is because the Democratic Party tied up liberals have [...]...
Not My Tribe - Wed 8:41 a.m.
I will update them as they all come in tonight. Just Reporting the numbers - I will let the armchair quarterbacks give us their epic wisdom. CD 1 Degette Raised 141,733.00 COH 166,866.52 Raised to Date 407,882.16 CD 2 Polis Raised 24,552.25, COH 165,315.41 Raised to Date 695,193.54 CD 3 Pace Raised 207,632.25, COH 341,430.06 Raised to Date 475,1...
Colorado Pols - Wed 8:41 a.m. - 11 clicks
"Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled." --John Wanamaker, the "Father of Advertising" ...
Colorado Pols - Wed 6:02 a.m. - 2 clicks
Returns from 79 percent of Florida's precincts showed Romney with 47 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Gingrich, the former House speaker. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had 13 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul 7 percent. From here . Next up is the Nevada caucus, a week long event in Maine starting Saturday, and a week from today Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota Republicans get a sa...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 7:24 p.m. - 12 clicks
CNN celebrates Mitt Romney's "practically 50%" 47% Florida primary victory: A Florida campaign of vicious personal attacks between Romney and his closest competitor, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, raised questions about whether the process would damage the eventual winner when it comes time to run against President Barack Obama in November... Be that as it may, [Romney's] solid vict...
Colorado Pols - Tue 7:24 p.m.
"Bill would end recognition of Supreme Court's authority": The Daily O'Collegian, the student newspaper of Oklahoma State University, has an article that begins, "A bill introduced Monday in the Oklahoma state Senate would forbid the United States Supreme Court from reviewing Oklahoma laws." The sponsor of the legislation, [is] Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey[.] From here . If passed, t...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 5:06 p.m.
UPDATE: The House is convening an ethics committee to try to sort this out from their end, as the Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby reports: The panel is to investigate whether Bradford improperly invoked legislative privilege in a recent traffic stop where she had been drinking, but was not issued a citation for driving under the influence of alcohol. The panel is t...
Colorado Pols - Tue 3:48 p.m. - 17 clicks
UPDATE: The Miklosi campaign issued a rather silly press release this afternoon. Full release after the jump, but here's the opening sentence: In a sign of growing momentum, the Joe Miklosi For Congress campaign announced it has $173,000 cash on hand and more than 1,300 grass roots supporters who have already contributed to the campaign. It's a very good idea to point out the number of indi...
Colorado Pols - Tue 2:06 p.m.
Conservative talk radio is all aflutter about a trial underway in Florida to determine whether President Obama is eligible to appear on the election ballot there. A Georgia law requires all candidates to prove they're eligible for office, and this means presidential candidates must prove they're U.S. citizens. Such laws, now on the books in a handful of states, are the cutting edge tactic of the...
SquareState - Tue 11:09 a.m.
UPDATE #2: Colorado Independent: The Perlmutter campaign responded in the wake of the announcement with a release that underlined Coors' wealth and his support for strict anti-abortion personhood laws, which would make illegal abortion in all cases and would even outlaw some of the most popular contraception, such as the pill. "Ed looks forward to a spirited debate with Joe Coors. There c...
Colorado Pols - Tue 11:09 a.m. - 17 clicks
UPDATE: The Denver Police Department promises "significant new information" about Rep. Bradford's case at a press conference scheduled for 3:30PM. Developing. ----- State Bill Colorado summarizes today's update to the story of Rep. Laura Bradford's skirting of a DUI charge last week in downtown Denver, due to a constitutional provision meant to prevent the arrest of legislators for p...
Colorado Pols - Tue 7:20 a.m. - 14 clicks
FDL tells me the good news : On the front of Politico is an article about how the big bipartisan deals that used to be relatively common in Congress now appear to be a thing of the past. From Politico: Call it the Split the Difference Scenario - a dream of Washington at its civic-minded best that has flourished for decades, even as the reality of Washington became ever more snarlin...
SquareState - Mon 5:20 p.m. - 2 clicks
Mitt Romney is favored by polls to win the Florida primary that concludes tomorrow (many votes have already been cast early), by an average margin of more than twelve percentage points. Equally notable, Gingrich is forecast to come in second place, Santorum in a distant third place, and Paul in fourth place behind Santorum by a small margin. This will be a third successive contest in which San...
Wash Park Prophet - Mon 3:06 p.m.
Two Colorado education and the economy stories to deal with today. First is the outrage of a soaring University of Colorado tuition increase being used in part to pay for raises for six figure administrators and bureaucrats.CU tuition hike funded......
Dave Chandler - Mon 11:22 a.m. - 15 clicks
Denver occupiers took to the streets last night in solidarity with OCCUPYs nationwide to protest the brutal January 27 clampdown on an attempted squat in Oakland, California. My favorite chant of the evening was “THEY SAY GET BACK, WE SAY FUCK THAT!” but by the march’s end it was DPD officers who were told to [...]...
Not My Tribe - Mon 9:21 a.m. - 17 clicks
Climate Crocks - published January 23, 2011 NASA: Nine of the top ten warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. Last year was another one of them, coming in at 9th warmest since 1880. The map above shows temperature anomalies, or changes, by region in 2011; it does not depict absolute temperature. Essen...
SquareState - Mon 12:28 a.m.
The U.S. Navy very recently removed the concept of a "Command Ship", basically a floating Navy and Marine base fashioned out of a late model Marine ship without heavy combat duties of its own from its fleet. No sooner had it done so, than the U.S. Navy was fitting out the USS Ponce (a Marine amphibious ship on the verge of being decommissioned) to become a "Mothership" serving the same role d...
Wash Park Prophet - Sun 7:27 p.m.
One of the realities of modern life is that it is often the case that a very minor oversight can cause immense harm. For example, because an airplane maintenance "contractor accidentally left a plug in one of the fuel tank’s relief vents during routine maintenance", the plane nearly crashed (which would have killed a couple dozen people) and experienced $25,000,000 in damage. In all likeliho...
Wash Park Prophet - Sun 7:27 p.m.
If you believe that diagnosable psychiatric disorders are to a great extent extremes in normal, genetically predisposed variations in personality, the recent study quoted from below is your Exhibit A. [B]etween close relatives, a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders covary strongly with intellectual interests. We surveyed an entire class of high-functioning young adults at an elite university f...
Wash Park Prophet - Sun 4:29 p.m.
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he's waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi's numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado's CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congressi...
SquareState - Sun 4:02 p.m. - 12 clicks
[T]he effect of lower cognitive ability on prejudice toward other races and homosexuality is mediated more or less through ideology. Coarsely, stupid people aren’t racist, stupid people are more likely to be socially conservative, and more socially conservative people are more likely to be racist. From here (discussing Hodson G and Busseri MA, "Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive ...
Wash Park Prophet - Sun 1:48 p.m.
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he’s waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi’s numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado’s CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congres...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Sun 12:23 a.m. - 12 clicks
This is probably not the right place to post this. But how does one get out of a controlling relationship once the divorce is final yet there are kids involved? My ex is super manipulative and so are his parents and this silent hidden abuse is harder to escape then the brusies. I struggle with depression and try to hide it for my daughters sake but I just don't know what to do....
DailyKos (Colorado) - Sat 4:40 p.m.
Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine sent the initial callouts to occupy Wall Street, to be the natural successor to unfinished revolutions in Tahrir Square and Madrid. Quickly enough it escaped their grasp. Adusters has issued two dozen “Tactical Briefings” since before September 17 to advise the growing rebellion, to be interpreted coming from a valued mentor, albeit [...]...
Not My Tribe - Fri 11:40 p.m.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, has upheld the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a misdemeanor to make false statements made about the military honors one has obtained. It did so by first clarifying that the statute is being interpreted narrowly, in an effort to preserve its constitutionality. As construed, it applies only to st...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 27 - 10 clicks
OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Ft Carson’s environmental PR team held what’s called a “draft Environmental Assessment,” prerequisite to their addition of a Combat Aviation Brigade to America’s “Best Hometown in the Army”. Except for a car-dealer and realtor giving their attaboys, the citizens comment section weighed solidly AGAINST expansion of war-making and ...
Not My Tribe - Jan 27 - 12 clicks
Robert Fantina asks this question and answers it well in his excellent commentary Stolen Land- Israel, Settlements and Democracy The green on the maps above represent the original land that Palestinians had for their people back in 1946, now being rapidly stolen away by others up to the year 2000, on the maps, and continuing [...]...
Not My Tribe - Jan 27
Defense Tech provides some key source documents outlining planned defense budget cuts. In a nutshell, the Obama Administration gets it backward, cutting almost 100,000 ground troops when the last decade has clearly illustrated that we have far too few to mount even modest scale, low intensity ground operations, while preserving or enhancing resources for "high end" conflicts by preserving a lar...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 27
A few K-12 education reforms that seem like they would work: 1. Start foreign language instruction much earlier. The norm should be 3rd grade, not 9th grade. Younger students inherently have more of a capacity to learn foreign languages. 2. Include a period of immersion of at least a month in a student's foreign language at least three times from third grade through high school graduation. ...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 27
In the United States, there is no doubt that the "Great Recession" we experienced in the wake of the financial crisis, while serious, was not as deep as the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the United Kingdom, this is not the case. Their Great Recession is by some GDP measures worse than the one that they experienced during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Copyright Andrew Oh-Willeke (2012)...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 26
Jose Padilla is an American citizen with a long criminal record who converted to Islam in prison who was plucked from a civilian jail by President George W. Bush as basically a test case for his new legal theory, and held there for years on that theory that he was an enemy combatant not entitled to due process. Padilla was then transferred to a non-military criminal court after the 4th Circuit ha...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 26
The State of the Union address typically includes all of the major policy proposals on an administration's agenda for the year. What proposals did President Obama make this year? I've stripped out the atmospherics and justifications for the agenda and stripped it down the policy proposals, with some commentary intertwined. Underlying Principles "These achievements are a testament to the c...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 25
The Democratic Party and President Obama's re-election brain trust are doing cartwheels and giving each other high-fives over the news that Newt Gingrich is surging in the polls in Florida and won the South Carolina primary. "Thank you, thank you, and thank you. We couldn't have done it better ourselves! You have just voted for a candidate who is viewed unfavorably by 60% of American voters...
SquareState - Jan 25 - 3 clicks
Here's my highly edited, medium opinionated SOTU roundup: Ministry of Truth at Kos : My friend told me after the State Of The Union that the Republicans looked like a bunch of "miserable old sourpusses." "How so?" I asked. "He is talking about uplifting stuff and they look miserable." I wasn't even planning to watch, but happened upon it as it was just starting. The terminal, chronic negat...
SquareState - Jan 25
NASA's James Hansen and a few of his colleagues released their assessment of 2011 global temperatures recently. In short, 2011 was the 9th warmest year in the GISS dataset. Just as importantly, this situation occurred in the midst of a continuing La Niña event that is of moderate strength. La Niña is characterized by a general cooling of the tropical Pacific waters near the surface;...
SquareState - Jan 25
As the Seth at Enik Rising reminds us with exit poll results, there were almost no non-white Republicans voting the in South Carolina primary election. About 99% of exit poll respondents were white, while the number of black and other non-white Republican primary voters in South Carolina rounded to 1% each. Overall in South Carolina, as of "the 2010 census, the racial make up of the state is...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 24
Public proclaimations of support for a gay marriage bill by a sufficient number of relevant state legislators and the state's Governor makes passage of a bill authorizing same sex marriage in Washington State into law a near certainty. Washington would then become the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage along with New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Iowa, Connecticut and Vermont. T...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 24
This statement was posted on Congressman Doug Lamborn's Facebook page last night: "I will be on Fox News tonight at 8:10pm MT talking about my decision NOT to attend tomorrow night's State of the Union Address. Instead, I will participate in an interactive online forum with constituents to get their reaction to the President's speech." Really, Congressman Lamborn?? You are boycottin...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 24
Democrats: We all have one general thing in common. We all believe that our point of view is the most logical. However; we also believe that everyone else has a point of view that makes sense to them. Based on that understanding, we try to make everything as fair as possible. This thing separates us from the other Party. The effect of this though, while noble in pri...
SquareState - Jan 24
Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . Beyond the traditional lessons on reading, writing, and math, schools across America are now teaching their students about another crucially important subject that will build the foundation for the rest of their lives: nutrition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 17 percent...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 24
I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out with the ads my super PAC has created! Our goal all along has been to tarnish the Republican brand and to diminish the chances of the GOP's only candidate who isn't completely insane-Mitt Romney. Thus far, we have produced and run 5 negative ads targeted against Mitt Romney and his phony, plastic, non-conservative views. And we like to think th...
SquareState - Jan 23
Conventional wisdom is that Mitt Romney has a far better organization than Newt Gingrich, and that’s a big part of why he’ll be the nominee. The coming terrain is supposed to benefit him, too. One friend of mine who's an expert at watching polls , Tweeted the other day, You look at the contests coming up after Florida... Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine... Caucuses, West, and North... M...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 23
I've always thought Jon Caldara was wasting his time, in terms of advancing his political agenda, by spending three hours a day, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., doing his KOA talk radio show. You'd think he could find a better way to advance evil for three hours every do, wouldn't you? Now Caldara, who's the President of the libertarian Independence Institute, will have those three hours back, since KOA...
SquareState - Jan 23
There is a rating system for schools in the Denver Public Schools system (including charter schools). The top ranking "distinguished" goes to schools that manage to produce excellent academic performance without being meaningfully selective in admissions. This ranking was awarded to West Denver Prep at Highland, Lake, Federal and Harvey Park locations, and to the Denver School of Science and ...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 22
The state of global polar sea ice area in early January 2012 has temporarily returned to climatologically normal conditions (1979-2009) . Arctic sea ice has recovered very quickly after starting the freeze season slowly and Antarctic sea ice has melted more slowly than is normal for this time of year. Put another way, polar sea ice has recovered from an extensive deficit of -2...
SquareState - Jan 22
Wonder if Congressman Doug Lamborn , proud Conservative and Congressman-for-Life from Colorado Springs, could explain further why we don't need the EPA at his next event. And if the free market is so virtuous, he could also explain why SUNCOR Energy shouldn't use any of its enormous profits to contain the toxic fluids still leaking into Denver's waterways. Suncor Energy Inc., Canada's ...
SquareState - Jan 21
Rep. Scott Tipton said in a radio interview last week that Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors "held up reasonably well" after being struck by an earthquake and Tsunami. So they could have been flattened, yes. But did they really hold up reasonably well? It's widely agreed now that the disaster caused a meltdown in three Fukushima reactors. Over ten thousand people were evacuated, and the fate of...
SquareState - Jan 19
AmericanLP released its first TV ad, "French Romney" back in December. This ad showed footage of Mitt Romney speaking French during the 2002 Olympics. In text, the ad scrolled verbatim quotes from Romney stating all of his past liberal positions on controversial issues in a way that is similar to movie translations. Talking Points Memo called it "the funniest ad of the primaries" and "reminiscent ...
SquareState - Jan 18
I'm interested in campaign contributions made to Frank McNulty and any state board member from McGraw Hill or their affiliates. Last year McNulty failed to move SJM11-0004 to the House floor for a vote. The memorial sent a clear message opposing No Child Left Behind, NCLB. SJM11-0004 was passed 27-3 in the Senate and adopted unanimously in the House Education Committee. Subversive efforts to exp...
SquareState - Jan 18
I know for a fact that I will be doubling my order of Thin Mints this year in support of a national organization that welcomes, supports, and empowers all girls. Written by Avital Norman Nathman for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . ...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 17
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography measured an average of 391.80ppm CO2 concentration at their Mauna Loa, Hawai'i's Observatory during December 2011. These readings are from the Scripps' dataset, not NOAA's, which was my original data source when this series began. 391.80 is the highest value for December concentrations in recorded history. Last year's 389.68 was the previous highest...
SquareState - Jan 16
Republican candidates for President can say almost anything these days and it will get repeated with a minimum of fact-checking by our press. Here's another Republican leader sending around the prayer for Barack Obama's death . The Google Machine will never run out of examples of their blatantly false statements and hateful rhetoric....and lies. Mitt Romney said corporations are people, and ...
SquareState - Jan 15
From the DNC's Protecting the Vote site. This week saw the war on voting carried to a ridiculous extreme. In order to prove the conservative case that conspiracies to commit voter fraud exist, James O'Keefe carried out a conspiracy to commit voter fraud. It's a stunt that turned the families of the recently deceased into victims, and opens O'Keefe and his minions to criminal prosecuti...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 14
Now that a lot of redistricting maps at all levels-- Congress, State Legislatures, local-- are complete I thought it would be a good idea for the redistricting community here to work on getting the official maps into the tool of our choice-- Dave's Redistricting App. I started a GDocs folder to collect these maps, but I'll put the links to the maps themselves in this diary as well, and upd...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 13
In Governor John Hickenlooper's (Democrat of course) state of the state speech given yesterday at the Colorado capitol building, the governor put his support behind efforts to create same-sex civil unions in Colorado. ...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 13
Most residents of Jefferson County would be quite happy with basic safety improvements to Indiana Street and McIntyre ... but better traffic flow is not what the tollway they call the 'Jefferson Parkway' is about. This report in today's YourHub.com......
Dave Chandler - Jan 12
There is absolutely nothing 'conservative' or 'fiscally responsible or 'representative' in what the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners have been doing to our public library system. As the letter below very concisely conveys, the county commissioners are subverting the will......
Dave Chandler - Jan 5
