Class will be at the Laborers Hall 2835 7th Avenue Rock Island on February 29th, 5:30 till 7 PM. Food and beverage will be supplied.
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Think Progress- Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as AbruptIn “The Great Dying” 250 million years ago, the devastation came with runaway greenhouse warming The geology of Griesbach Creek in the Arctic tells an ancient tale of slow extinction. Source NSF. A reposted National Science Foundation press release. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth’s marine […]
- Sen. Bill Nelson Uses Six Cows To Avoid Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Property TaxesThinkProgress noted last year that multi-millionaire movie star Tom Cruise manipulated a tax break meant to help struggling farmers in order to pay just $400 of property taxes on his $18 million Colorado estate. Cruise was able to pay so little because he allowed some sheep to graze on the estate, thus qualifying the land [...]
- Report: 50,000 Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions Find Coverage As A Result Of Health ReformThe Affordable Care Act’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is credited with providing comprehensive health coverage to nearly 50,000 Americans with high-risk pre-existing conditions, according to a report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services. The PCIP is a temporary program intended to make health coverage available […]
- BREAKING: Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality BillToday, the Maryland Senate passed marriage equality legislation with a vote of 25-22. Opponents proposed numerous amendments in an attempt to derail the bill, including several that failed in the House last week. Sen. Bryan Simonaire (R) even read the full text of the children’s book King & King on the floor, expressing concern that schools [...]
- Romney Pushes Altered Versions Of Newspaper Endorsements, Edits Out CriticismsIn the weeks leading up to this Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Michigan, Mitt Romney has struggled to defend his 2008 editorial in the New York Times that argued against a government rescue of the US auto industry that the state is so dependent on. And even while several newspaper editorial staffs have offered endorsements [...]
- Week of Anarchy: Civil Society in CharmingOver the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched all four seasons of Sons of Anarchy. And while shotgunning the show’s episodes may not be for the faint of heart (so much grotesque violence!), it’s given me a lot to think about with the show. So every day this week, I’ll be considering another aspect of [...]
- Obama: Our Children Want Us To Preserve The PlanetIn a speech today on energy policy at the University of Miami, President Barack Obama went off his prepared remarks to note that young people — including his daughters — seem to care more than his generation does about the fate of the planet: Anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out [...]
- Signatures Verified For Maine’s Marriage Equality Ballot InitiativeThe Maine Secretary of State has confirmed that enough signatures have been verified to allow a ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage to proceed this year. The necessary threshold was 57,277 signatures, but LGBT activists collected 85,216 verified signatures. This will officially be the first referendum that will ask voters to affirm marriage equali […]
- How Big Banks Suckered Foreign Governments Into Helping Them Lobby Against Rule Restricting Risky TradingIt’s no secret that the nation’s biggest banks have been trying to kill off the Volcker rule, the regulation named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that is meant to rein in the banks’ riskiest trading. The banks, with the help of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), watered the rule down before it even became [...]
- Former Senator Arlen Specter Disputes Santorum’s Endorsement-For-Confirmations ClaimDuring last night’s Republican debate, rival candidate Mitt Romney attacked former Sen. Rick Santorum for endorsing pro-choice Republican (later turned Democrat) Sen. Arlen Specter over the more conservative primary challenger Pat Toomey. Santorum defended the endorsement claiming that he effectively traded the endorsement for a promise on judicial con […]
- Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt
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