The three-year-old daughter of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has been admitted to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the candidate has cancelled his Sunday morning campaign events to be at her side.
Hate his views… but I hope his daughter gets well soon.
I mean, sure, they’d be homeless people, but the team has to start somewhere.
According to The Miami Herald, 23 years ago the state passed legislation that, if a stadium were to receive public funding and tax credits, on days when the stadium was not in use it was to be converted into a homeless…
Of the many axioms about Twitter, the one I like best is “Facebook makes you hate people you know; Twitter makes you love people you’ve never met.” Twitter on the night of a large-scale national event — debates, the State Of The Union, election night — is the Cheers bar most of us don’t actually get to have in real life. It’s a place (or, more accurately, a “place”) where you can gather with like-minded strangers, sit back and kibitz.
WASHINGTON — High school dropouts, do not fear. The Republican Party will protect you from Barack Obama’s efforts to keep you at your desk.
At his third State of the Union Address Tuesday night, the president challenged all states to ban children from dropping out of high school before they turn 18. “Tonight,” Obama bellowed, “I am proposing that every state—every state—requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18.”
Obama wasn’t proposing a new federal program, but his use of the bully pulpit to tell local jurisdictions how to run their school districts was enough to make some Republicans, already sensitive to the increasing role of the federal government in education over the past few years, bristle.
“That’s none of his business!” said Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee while speaking to reporters after the speech. “He’s not a principal! He’s not a public school teacher! He’s not a governor, he’s not a mayor. These are matters for state and local government.”
Ok, I get it, they are the opposition party… but this??