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Ohio coal miners lost a day’s pay after they were forced to attend a Romney rally on a “mandatory and unpaid” basis. The mine is owned by a major Romney donor.
Mitt Romney wants consumers to waste an extra $1.7 TRILLION on gas.
The Romney campaign laughs off a reporter’s question about their false and discredited welfare attacks.
As Hurricane Isaac bears down on New Orleans, a Romney campaign co-chair complains that the media is “obsessed with mother nature.”
The fact-free Romney campaign.
The mayor of Los Angeles had some sharp words for the GOP on immigration.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is crying wolf on the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Isaac.
Florida’s GOP voter suppression law brought voter registration to a standstill.
Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor backtracked on her criticism of Todd Akin after being told that Paul Ryan also tried to redefine rape: “I think there is a way to have a more forcible rape.”
Future360 travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to meet actor and star of Treme, Wendell Pierce. Pierce is on a mission to rebuild Pontchartrain Park using renewable energy and clean technology.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/rebuilding-new-orleans-green.html#ixzz1dn7tH9i8
by Future360TVon Jul 19, 2011
Future360 travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to meet actor and star of Treme, Wendell Pierce. Pierce is on a mission to rebuild Pontchartrain Park using renewable energy and clean technology.
There’s no such thing as evolution. There’s no such thing as climate change. And that’s the law.
Outrageous as it sounds, this is the situation that thousands of science teachers find themselves in as more and more states pass radical laws promoting the teaching of creationism and climate-change denial in public classrooms.
But in Louisiana, one high school senior is fighting back. http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-louisiana-to-teach-real-science-in-public-schools-not-creationism-and-climate-change-denial?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=djCVYCAEKj_IPCTrqXDJp
Zack Kopplin is just 17 years old, but he knows what’s right: He wants his science teachers to teach him science, not religion. Zack is spearheading a campaign to repeal the Louisiana law that pushes science teachers to deny evolution and climate change.
Zack wrote a letter to the Louisiana state legislature, and 42 Nobel Prize winners have signed it, too. Now, he’s asking you to join his fight on www.Change.org. http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-louisiana-to-teach-real-science-in-public-schools-not-creationism-and-climate-change-denial?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=djCVYCAEKj_IPCTrqXDJp
Zack’s campaign is working: On April 15th, Louisiana State Senator Karen Carter Peterson introduced a bill to repeal the repeal the recent legislation, but Zack still needs help to keep the pressure up.
Please sign the petition today to tell the Louisiana legislature to let science teachers teach science:
Thanks for taking action,
– Patrick and the Change.org team
Yesterday, President Obama endorsed a commonsense, bipartisan proposal from Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana regarding implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Under the law you helped enact nearly one year ago, states get the chance to try innovative reforms, as long as those reforms don’t add to our deficit while meeting the goals we all share: affordable, accessible care for the American people.
The new bipartisan proposal — the Empowering States to Innovate Act — would allow states to implement health reforms that work for them starting in 2014 — three years sooner than the date originally laid out in the Affordable Care Act.
President Obama has made it clear that he is open to good ideas from both sides of the aisle about how to make care better and more affordable.
He’s living by those words — and this announcement is an important step in building on health reform.
Watch the President’s remarks on his endorsement of the plan and learn more about it, and then pass this along to folks you know who are interested in the future of health care in America.
As the President has said, now is not the time to re-fight the battles of the past two years, or roll back the progress we’ve made.
But solutions like this one will allow us to continue moving health insurance reform forward, building and shaping it so that it works for every state — and every American.
He knows that good ideas don’t necessarily come from one person, one party, or one state — that the best solutions are simply the ones that work.
And he knows it’s not the loudest voice in the room — but the most reasonable — that ultimately provides real leadership.
Take a look at a video of the President’s remarks about his endorsement of the new proposal here, and pass it on:
http://my.barackobama.com/EmpoweringStates
Thanks,
Mitch
Director
Organizing for America
Be a Seed for Change 
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