Year: 2014
Rather than Give Up Capital Punishment, Majority Would Opt for Alternate Methods of Execution
8%
Of respondents in a new NBC News poll suggested hanging as an alternative to lethal injection, while 20% favored the gas chamber, 18% were for the electric chair and 12% for firing squad. One in three said that if lethal injections are no longer viable — because of drug shortages or other problems — executions should be stopped altogether rather than returning to more primitive forms of execution.
Rubio Draws Link Between Climate Change and Abortion
Here’s what I always get a kick out of, and it shows you the hypocrisy. All these people always wag their finger at me about science and settled science. Let me give you a bit of settled science that they’ll never admit to. The science is settled, it’s not even a consensus, it is a unanimity, that human life beings at conception. So I hope the next time someone wags their finger about science, they’ll ask one of these leaders on the left: ‘Do you agree with the consensus of scientists that say that human life begins at conception?’ I’d like to see someone ask that question.
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), saying pro-choice Democrats who criticize him for doubting man-made climate change should be questioned on why they support abortion,” the Huffington Post reports.
It’s All Fray All the Time Nowadays
There is no ‘above the fray’ in politics anymore. There is only ‘the fray.’
— GOP strategist Mark McKinnon, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked whether Hillary Clinton is still a stateswoman operating above the political fray.
There’s a Campaign to Convince Hillary to Campaign
We think what we’re seeing is an elaborate campaign, directed by Hillary, to lock down the 2016 nomination and solidify her image as a leader. But in reality, this isn’t emanating from Clinton, and it has nothing to do with voters. What we’re really looking at is a campaign orchestrated by nervous Democrats and aimed at persuading Clinton herself.
— Matt Bai, writing for Yahoo News.
Franken: This is the Free Speech Issue of Our Time
It’s time to stop tuning out the issue of net neutrality, which very simply means that everything you access online has an equal chance of — and speed in — reaching you. The very fact that corporations like Comcast want to change the rules of access to the wonders of the internet is enough to show that there is much at stake. It boils down to huge profit for them, and the loss of the internet as we know it for us.
We already pay the Comcasts of the world for internet access. So do those who provide content online (like Pensito Review). So they are already being paid twice but at least once their basic price is met, there is equal access by you, the reader, to sites, and by sites to you. If they get the changes they want, sites like PR will be cast into the slow lane, while Netflix and whoever pays the “premium” (i.e., extortion money) is catapulted into the fast lane.
Everyone has a favorite little site they like, even if they do spend a lot of time on Buzzfeed or HuffPo or Facebook. If you don’t want Comcast and other providers deciding what your online experience will be like, and how difficult it will be to get to your favorite little site, support net neutrality at NoSlowLane.com.
