A plan to put shelters in schools after seven children died in 2013 from a series of devastating tornadoes has been scrapped because Republican leaders are pushing for corporate tax cuts instead.
I was really impressed by a recent piece by Greta Christina for Free Inquiry asking if there's a rational way to accept/use our own irrationality. Being irrational is simply a result of being human; many irrational thought processes are only really a problem when they're, well, a problem. (I realize that's a tautology. *cymbal crash*) All very interesting stuff about anticipating our irrational desires and making rational choices that make those desires work for us instead of against us, like enrolling in a gym in order to work out more.
WASHINGTON — A key US congressional panel plans to put the White House in the hot seat at an October 25 hearing to study action against China's "distorting trade politics," the committee's chairman said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama turned up the heat Saturday on lawmakers to pass an ambitious Wall Street regulatory overhaul, as the measure headed for a key vote in the Senate.
