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The best way to describe the source of President Donald Trump s broad economic and political impact is to take him out of the equation altogether, says economist Mark Blyth. The first thing to do is stop focusing on Trump if you want to understand this, the Scotland-born Brown University professor said on the latest episode of The Takeout podcast. Th stanley cup e bigger picture is simply a story of the breakdown of that regime, if you want to call stanley cup it that, from the 80s through to the financial crisis, where basically a huge amount of wealth was generated globally, and it went into very few hands locally. Listen to this episode on Stitcher Over breakfast tacos at food-truck-turned-restaurant, District Taco, across the street from the CBS News DC bureau, Blyth told CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett and Political Director Steve Chaggaris that Donald Trump is a phenomenon on both the right and the left -- and stanley cup not only in the U.S., but also in other countries across the globe. And what it is, essentially, is a huge amount of dissatisfaction with the people who have been running the world for the last 30 years. It s like the ubiquitous fast food chain McDonald s, he says, drawing an extended metaphor: It s hard to find a bad McDonald s in the United States, but if you eat there all the time, bad things can happen. So a large part of the United States has been eating McDonal Zsdd Year-end spending bill includes controversial cybersecurity act
A major health insurer that wants to boost rates in California by up to 39 percent was trying to maximize profits by pur stanley cup ging its sickest customers while spending million stanley spain s on exorbitant salaries and retreats for its executives, congressional Democrats said Wednesday.Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said at a hearing on WellPoint Inc. that his panel s investigators had received internal company documents showing that in 2008, 39 company executives received salaries of $1 million or more. And in 2007 and 2008, it spent $27 million for 103 executive retreats. Corporate executives at WellPoint are thriving, but its policyholders are paying the price, said Waxman, D-Calif. WellPoint owns Anthem Blue Cross, which wants to raise rates on individual policy holders in California and blames those increases on rising medical costs.In prepared testimony for the panel, Angela Braly, president of WellPoint Inc., blamed the increases on the growing price tags for hospital care and pharmaceuticals. She also cited the ailing economy, which has caused many younger, healthier people to save money by dropping coverage, leaving her company stanley cup covering an older, sicker population. Raising our premiums was not something we wanted to do, Braly said. But we believe this was the most prudent choice. Anthem s rate boosts in California have made it a poster child for Democrats arguing that the nation s health system mus
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Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the differe stanley cup nce for struggling families. The situation is even bleaker in Europe, with Russia s continued curtailment of natural gas pushing prices upward and causing painful shortages.Americans struggle to pay utilities as energy prices surgeHeating and electric bills set to surge this winter: There is a lot of pain Smart home tech can help save money on energy billsIn Maine, stanley thermos mug Aaron Raymo saw the writing on the wall and began stocking up on heating oil in 5-gallon increments over the summer as costs crept upward. He filled a container with heating oil as he could afford it, usually on stanley becher paydays, and used a heating assistance program to top off his 275-gallon oil tank with the arrival of colder weather. His family is trying to avoid being forced into a difficult decision mdash; choosing between food or heating their home. Aaron Raymo lives with his partner, Lucinda Tyler, and 8-year-old son in Jay, Maine, an area known for its bitter-cold winters. Tyler wept with relief when she learned they qualified for a modest amount of heating assistance. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty Iyye Virginia AG Says Health Care Lawsuit About Liberty
Ten White House wannabes will clash tonight in the first Republican presidential debate of a campaign season that is already in full swing 18 months before the election.If the front runners mdash; Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney mdash; manage to damage each other in verbal combat the beneficiary may well be the elephant who isn t in the room: former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.Thompson is thought to be edging closer to getting into the race, and has racked up decent poll numbers even though he is not mdash; as yet mdash; a candidate. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is ano stanley trinkflaschen ther no-show who may jump into the race. The 90-minute showdown at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will begin at 8 p.m. EDT. Nancy Reagan is expected to attend.The candidates must wrestle with a host of problems, including how strongly to endorse the policies of President Bush. Mr. Bush has fared poorly in public opinion gourde stanley polls, but he remains popular with the conservative voters who will dominate the GOP primaries. Giuliani and Romney are expected to continue their strong support for stanley cup the president and his policies, but McCain may well live up to his maverick reputation with criticism of the White House. John is going to express his views as he see them: In some cases he and the president have shared the same position, but in some cases they don t, McCain adviser John Weaver told The New York Times.Some GOP analysts expect the frontru
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Along with the incalculable toll on victims and their families, gun violence in the U.S. also exacts another heavy cost: More than $1 billion a year in medical bills.That figure only accounts for the initial health costs of hospital care for people who are shot, according to a report released by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee ahead of a Wednesday hearing on the economic impact of gun violence. The costs are born most di stanley cup rectly by victims and their families, Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric trauma surgeon at the Cohen Children s Medical Center in New York City, said in thehearing. F stanley cup becher or victims of fatal firearm injuries, medical costs totaled $290 million in 2020 and cost an average of $9,000 per patient, with much of the cost paid for by public health insurance providers such as Medicaid, according to the panel, citingfiguresfrom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It s just devastating Treating gunshot injuries is way more expensive than any other type of injury, said the physician, also a National Institutes of Health-funded firearm stanley website injury prevention researcher. A bullet wound versus a stab wound, versus a car accident. It s just devastating, the amount of damage that one bullet causes, especially in a child whose organs are all next to each other, very close to one another, cannot be described. Every year, firearms-related injuries cause 30,000 initial in-patient hospital stays, each of which result in Iclg Senate receives article of impeachment against Trump
Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday announced his choice for Trent Lott s replacement in the Senate: Rep. Roger Wicker, a conservative congressman.Barbour said it was important to select a person with Lott s conservative values and who would be able to work with Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, also a Republican. I am a mainstream conservative in the mold of Trent Lott, Thad Cochran, Haley Barbour and U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering and I believe the vast majority of Mississipians share this philosophy, Wicker said at a news conference. At the same time, I hope my stanley thermos mug constituents and colleagues view me as a pragmatic problem-solver. Wicker will serve until a state-mandated special election is held Nov. 4. He is expected to be a candidate in that race. The winner will serve out the remainder of Lott s term, which runs through 2012.Wicker, 56, had been mentioned as a possible successor since Lott s resignation earlier in December after serving one year of a six-year term. Wicker was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 to succeed the late Rep. Jamie Whitten. He has been re-elected six times from the 1st District in north Mississippi. Wicker was resigning from the U.S. Hou vaso stanley se.Lott served 16 years in the U.S. House before moving to the Senate in 1988. Lott announced in November that he wou stanley cup ld resign before the end of the year. He resigned Dec. 19 after Congress wrapped up its work for the year.Lott, 66, said he wants to spend more time with his family
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Washington mdash; Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will vote Friday on a massive relief package responding to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, after the Senate unanimously passed the measure late Wednesday.The bill, which carries a price tag north of $2 trillion, will likely be approved by a voice vote in the House, which doesn t require the presence of all members, many of whom are currently in their home states. Two House members stanley italia have tested positive for coronavirus, and about two dozen others have said they are self-quarantining in case they have been exposed.The relief measure passed with a vote of 96 to 0 in the Senate, after lengthy negotiations between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and White House officials. The bill expands unemployment insurance, provides direct payments to most Americans and includes hundreds of billions of dollars in loans and grants to stanley flasche corporations, hospitals, state and local governments and more. An amendment proposed by three Republicans threatened to delay the bill s passage, but it failed along party lines. Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference Thursday that she expected the bill to pass by a voice vote with strong bipartisan support. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also voiced support for the bill on Thursday, and urged members of his conference to vote to approve it. stanley drinking cup House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters during her weekly pre Hekp Ney Staffers Exit; Subpoena Arrives
A North Carolina judge said Wednesday he was willing to order John Edwards to testify in a lawsuit about a sex tape involving the two-time presidential candidate.Robert Elliot, an attorney for former Edwards aide Andrew Young, said he has been unable to serve Edwards with a subpoena because he has been difficult to find. He asked the judge for help in getting Edwards deposition by the end of this month, saying he d like the judge s support if he can t find the former North Carolina senator soon. I ll certainly sign an order to direct him to appear, Judge Carl Fox said. A lawyer for Edwards mistress, Riel stanley cup becher le Hunte vaso stanley r, said they would like time to make arguments before the judge takes that step. A spokeswoman for Edwards, Joyce Fitzpatrick, declined immediate comment.Earlier, Hunter s attorneys argued she should have some of the profits from Young s tell-all book, saying she is entitled to an undisclosed amount of money because Young promoted it by talking about the sex tape. Hunter is suing to reclaim the video she made and believes the tape was taken from a box of her personal belongings. Young contends that the tape was found amid trash that Hunter left behind in a home that he was renting, and his attorneys argued that the tape was a small part of his book. Nobody s making money on the Edwards sex tape and nobody s ever made money on the Edwards sex tape, Elliot said.Edwards i stanley cup s also awaiting the conclusion of a federal probe in
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Top Democrats joined Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, on Thursday to introduce the party s latest economic proposal: stanley cup quencher raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2024 and indexing it over time. I think under any definition that is a starvation wage, Sanders said. We have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And stanley mug what we are here today to say is that living wage i stanley cup s $15 an hour. Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Others included co-sponsor Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, DNC Chairman Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Michigan, and Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, joined Sanders in introducing the bill. Sanders called for a $15 minimum wage when he ran for president.The last major attempt at federal minimum wage policy came in a 2015 bill sponsored by Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, which called for a gradual increase up to $12 by 2020.Timing of Thursday s event coincided with the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which increased the federal minimum wage level from $5.15 to today s $7.25. But that number, Sanders said, is too low and has seen its purchasing power diminish over the years. It is a radical concept for our Republican friends, but we believe in the United States of America ... if you work 40 hours a week or 50 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty, Sanders said. Scott said the House had 152 co-sponsors for the bill, which is almost 80 percent of Democrats in Fema Critics: EPA Must Clear The Air
The House rolled back billions of dollars in oil industry subsidies Thursday in what supporters hailed as a new direction in energy policy towar stanley thermoskannen d more renewable fuels. Critics said the action would reduce domestic oil production and increase reliance on imports.The energy legislation was the last of six high-priority issues that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had pledged to push through during the first 100 hours of Democratic control. The bill passed by a 264-163 vote.The bill s prospects are uncertain the Senate, where Democrats hold a narrow majority. The top Republican on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, said the bill was anothe stanley cup price r pig in the poke that targets incentives necessary to promote domestic drilling. The legislation would impose a conservation fee on oil and gas taken from deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico; scrap nearly $6 billion worth of oil industry tax breaks stanley isolierkanne enacted by Congress in recent years; and seek to recoup royalties lost to the government because of an Interior Department error in leases issued in the late 1990s.Democrats said the legislation could produce as much as $15 billion in revenue. Most of that money would pay to promote renewable fuels such as solar and wind power, alternative fuels including ethanol and biodiesel and incentives for conservation. The oil industry doesn t need the taxpayers help. ... There is not an American that goes to a gas pu
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President Obama condemned the attack on Baton Rouge police officers that resulted in the death of three officers and the wounding of three others, calling on the American people to temper our words and open our hearts. Regardless of motive the death of these three brave officers underscores the danger that police across the country confront every single day, he said at the White House Sunday afternoon. And we as a nation have to be loud and clear that nothing justifies violence against law enforcement. Attacks on police are an attack on all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible. Mr. Obama said tragedies like Baton Rouge have happened far too often, referring also to the recent shooting of Dallas police stanley water bottle officers stanley mugs earlier this month. I ve spent a lot of time with law enforcement th stanley cup is last week. I m surrounded by the best of the best every single day and I know whenever this happens, wherever it happens, you feel it, he said. What I want you to know today is the respect and gratitude of the American people for everything you do for us. He especially urged caution over inflammatory words as the Republican and Democratic conventions are about to begin, noting that convention season is a time when our rhetoric tends to be more overheated than usual. My fellow Americans, only we can prove through words and through deeds that we will not be divided and we re going to have to keep on doing it again and again an Lyqo Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker faults White House for shortages in coronavirus testing
AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel The White House announced today that the United States will share 10 percent of its H1N1 flu vaccine with other countries.In a release, the Obama administration said it was taking the action in recognition of the fact that disease stanley cup s know no borders and that the health of the American people is inseparable f stanley mug rom the health of people around the world. The U.S. is taking the action in concert with Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The vaccine will be made available to other countries on a rolling basis, as supplies become available, through the World Health Organization.The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health announced last week that the vaccine would only need to be given once, not twice, in order to be effective for most people. The administration expects the vaccine to be made available within weeks. It predicted that the United States will have sufficient doses of the vaccine to ens stanley botella ure that every American who wants a vaccine is able to receive one. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1ad60b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d1ad60b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1ad60b8-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c6
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Valentine Day seems an odd time to get environmentally responsible, but Verizon has done just that. The ca stanley cup uk rrier has just announced a new nationwide trade-in disposal program for its old handsets and is giving away gift cards in exchange. Any Verizon customer can turn in a used mobile at the company stores or kiosks. There Verizon staff will evaluate the mobile for its make, model, and condition, then issue a Verizon gift card that can be used immediately. What more, the card balance can also be used to pay monthly bills, not just new merchandise. According to the carrier, certain phone models can fetch up to $ stanley mugs 300鈥攖hough I doubt I ;ll get that much for my old StarTac. All trade-ins will be disposed of in an environmentally resp stanley quencher onsible manner, according to the company. If you are feeling magnanimous, you can also donate the phone value to Verizon ongoing HopeLine project. This program redistributes used cellphones and unclaimed minutes to victims of domestic violence. I ;m curios as to how the valuation prices from Verizon stack up against those of online trade-in sites like Gazelle or Flipswap especially since it does have the advantage of immediate payouts rather than making you wait 2-4 weeks for a posted check. [VZW via IntoMobile] PhonesVerizon Ykuw Staple City s a Towering Metropolis of Desk Organization
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE telescope surv stanley water bottle eyed the universe twice during its 14-month mission, generating a wealth of da stanley termosar ta in the process. Now, by sifting through that data, WISE astronomers have unveiled one of the telescope most impressive finds yet: 2.5 million supermassive black holes 鈥?about three times as many as have been detected by previous survey stanley cup s 鈥?sprinkled throughout the cosmos. But there more. WISE has also turned up evidence of a never-before seen population of galaxies called hot DOGs, short for hot, dust-obscured galaxies. These objects are among the brightest, hottest and most powerful ever observed in the universe, and could represent a missing link in galaxy evolution Black Hole Bonanza WISE has found a bonanza of black holes, said Jet Propulsion Laboratory astronomer Daniel Stern during a teleconference yesterday afternoon which we live-blogged 鈥?check it out here for tons of pictures and Q 038;A summary , more than had been found by any previous survey. https://gizmodo/nasa-announces-new-findi...me-5938905 These aren ;t your run-of-the-mill black holes. These millions of newly identified cosmic entities are all believed to be quasars 鈥?yawning reaches of spacetime, millions to billions of times more massive than our sun, that have been caught feasting away on the gas and dust that surrounds them. The matter falling into
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Sex. Hot, naked, sexy sex. While most of us enjoy it, maybe you know someone who enjoys it just a liiittle too much. Maybe it all they talk about. It certainly all they think about. This year, give your freaky friends what they really want. Hey there! You might notice our gift guides look a little different this year. That because we ;re hoping to get you more involved in them. All of our suggestions are posted in the discussion section. I stanley cup f you have experience or an opinion on one of our selections, let us know! Got a better idea Share it with us. We truly want to make sure these guides help people buy epic holiday gifts, and many minds are better than a few. stanley cup stanley cup usa Gift Guide 2012 Zxij LEGO Digital Clock Reminds You How Much Time It Took To Build
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