March 23, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
Affordable Care Act, Affordable Health Care for America Act, amazon, Barack Obama Paul Ryan, business, Business News, Deficit, Health Care Costs, health care system, Health Insurance, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Obamacare, President Barack Obama, Repeal, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, the White House, travel, Uninsured, universal health care system, vacation
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
A big f***ing deal happened five years ago Monday.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act — a law designed to make health insurance available to all Americans and, over time, to make the health care system more efficient. Vice President Joe Biden’s comment that the law was a “B.F.D.,” which an open microphone at the White House ceremony caught, was mainly a reference to the decades-long quest to establish some kind of universal health care system, bringing to the U.S. the same guarantees of financial security and access to medical care that have long existed in every other developed country.
But Biden’s quip was also a statement about the grueling fight to get a bill through Congress. For more than a year, stretching back to Obama’s very first days in office, Republicans and their allies had attacked the law relentlessly and, at times, hyperbolically. They didn’t just doubt that the law would achieve its goals, they also predicted that it would wreak havoc on the federal budget, the economy and the health care system.
.
President Barack Obama (C) signs the Affordable Health Care for America Act during a ceremony with fellow Democrats in the East Room of the White House March 23, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Five years later, Republicans still want the law repealed. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) | Win McNamee via Getty Images
.
.
Click link below for story and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/22/obamacare-5-years_n_6918326.html
.
__________________________________________
March 14, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, AP, Bob Corker, business, Business News, foreign policy, GOP, GOP Iran, Gop Iran Letter, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Iran, Iran Letter, Iran Nuclear Deal, Iranian Election, medicine, mental-health, Obama Iran, President Barack Obama, republican party, Republican senators, Republicans, research, Ron Johnson, Science, Science News, Senate Republicans Iran, technology, Technology News, travel, US Iran Relations, vacation, Washington
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
Criticism of 47 Republican senators’ letter to Iranian leaders escalated Friday, and one of the lawmakers expressed misgivings about writing directly to an adversary to raise doubts about President Barack Obama’s nuclear negotiations.
Several newspapers that had endorsed the senators’ elections were harshly critical. A handful of conservative commentators and former GOP aides joined legions of liberals in calling the letter ill-advised.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who may face a tough re-election next year, defended the letter, but added, “If there was any regret, tactically, it probably would have been better just to have it be an open letter addressed to no one.”
.
.
.
Click link below for article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/14/gop-iran-letter-criticism_n_6868398.html
.
__________________________________________
March 12, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Ferguson, Ferguson Police Chief, Ferguson Police Department, Ferguson Protesters, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, police officers, Protest, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, St. Louis County, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Webster Groves
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
Two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department just after midnight Thursday, police and eyewitnesses said. The shootings came during protests following the Ferguson police chief’s resignation on Wednesday afternoon.
In a press conference outside the hospital where the officers were being treated on Thursday morning, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said that a 32-year-old officer from suburban Webster Groves was shot in the face and a 41-year-old officer from St. Louis County was shot in the shoulder, according to the Associated Press. Belmar said the injuries were “very serious” but that both officers were conscious, and that he assumed they were targeted because they were police officers. Police had no one in custody in connection with the shooting.
Witness Tony Rice told The Huffington Post he heard several shots and saw one officer on the ground hollering. Photographer Bradley Rayford said in an interview that he was standing near the line of officers outside the Ferguson Police Department when he heard gunshots and saw a muzzle flash. He said heard the bullets whiz through the air and saw one fallen officer being dragged to safety.
.
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/ferguson-officers-shot-_n_6852700.html
.
__________________________________________
March 11, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Ferguson city employee, Ferguson Police, Ferguson Police Chief, Ferguson Police Chief Resigns, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, Ferguson Police Department, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Justice Department, medicine, mental-health, Michael Brown, Mo, Police Chief Thomas Jackson, police officer, police officers, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, ST. LOUIS, technology, Technology News, Thomas Jackson Ferguson, Thomas Jackson Ferguson Police, Thomas Jackson Resignation, travel, vacation, Video
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, who became one of the city’s most well-known figures after a police officer killed teenager Michael Brown in August 2014, plans to resign in the wake of a blistering Justice Department report on the revenue-driven policing and court practices Jackson oversaw in the St. Louis suburb.
Jackson is the sixth and most high-profile Ferguson city employee to resign after the release of the Justice Department report, which critically examined the practices of the police department and municipal court system. Two police officers and a court clerk stepped down because the report revealed they had sent racist emails, while the municipal judge and City Manager John Shaw resigned over their roles in implementing police practices that prioritized generating revenue over public safety concerns.
In a resignation letter published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jackson said he was stepping down with “profound sadness” and that he hoped to “continue to assist the city in anyway I can in my capacity as a private citizen.”
.
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/thomas-jackson-resignation_n_6849334.html
.
__________________________________________
March 8, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
50th anniversary, Alabama, amazon, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Selma, Barack Obama Selma Anniversary, business, Business News, civil rights, civil rights movement, Edmund Pettus, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, John Lewis, medicine, men and women, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Selma, Selma Alabama, Selma March, Selma March Anniversary, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
President Barack Obama joined nearly 100 members of Congress in Selma, Alabama, on Saturday for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” — a watershed moment of the civil rights movement — where he honored the men and women who stood their ground in a violent confrontation with police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
“We gather here to honor the courage of ordinary Americans willing to endure billy clubs and the chastening rod, tear gas and the trampling hoof; men and women who despite the gush of blood and splintered bone would stay true to their North Star and keep marching toward justice,” Obama said in a soaring speech that addressed race and civil rights.
The president hailed Selma as a city of extreme importance to America’s history — on par with wartime settings of Concord, Lexington and Gettysburg, and places where innovation took great strides such as Kitty Hawk and Cape Canaveral. And he paid deference to the foot soldiers who sparked a movement: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth, among others.
.
.
.
Click link below for article, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/barack-obama-selma-anniversary_n_6823060.html
.
__________________________________________
March 8, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
Alabama, amazon, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Selma, Barack Obama Speech Transcript, Bloody Sunday, business, Business News, civil rights, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Justin Sullivan, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Selma, Selma Anniversary, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
President Barack Obama delivered one of his most powerful speeches on race and civil rights at the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama on Saturday.
.
SELMA, AL – MARCH 07: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. Selma is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the famed civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery that resulted in a violent confrontation with Selma police and State Troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | Justin Sullivan via Getty Images
.
.
Click link below for article and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/obama-selma-bloody-sunday-transcript_n_6823642.html
.
__________________________________________
February 25, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Democrats DHS Funding, Department of Homeland Security, Harry Reid Dhs Funding, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Immigration, Jeff Sessions, Jim Inhofe, medicine, mental-health, President Barack Obama, research, Science, Science News, Senate, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, the Senate, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
The Senate made its first move on Wednesday to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, with just two days remaining until the agency runs out of money.
The upper chamber voted 98-2 on a procedural hurdle that would pave the way for a “clean” funding bill to be brought to the floor, following a deal announced by Senate Democratic leaders earlier in the day. Only Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) voted against moving forward with the agreement, which would fund DHS without any measures to block President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration.
The vote marked the first cracking of the impasse that has for weeks threatened DHS funding. Under the agreement, which was suggested on Tuesday by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate will resolve the DHS funding issue and then vote on a separate bill from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to block Obama’s executive actions, which would grant temporary deportation relief and work authorization to as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants.
.
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/democrats-dhs-funding_n_6753598.html
.
__________________________________________
February 24, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, business, Business News, Coast Guard, Coast Guard officers, customs and border protection, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security Shutdown, Dhs, Dhs Jeh Johnson, DHS officials, Dhs Shutdown, Fema, Homeland Security, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Immigration, Immigration Executive Action, Jeh Johnson, medicine, mental-health, patrol agents, research, Science, Science News, Secretary Jeh Johnson, Slideshow, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
TSA agents would remain in airports, patrol agents would still be manning the border and Coast Guard officers would continue monitoring the waters if the Department of Homeland Security were to shut down.
But out of the public eye, there would be major problems, DHS officials warned Monday, as the Feb. 27 deadline to fund the department creeps closer.
“A shutdown of DHS would have serious consequences and amount to a serious disruption in our ability to protect the homeland,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said at a press conference at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services headquarters.
.
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/department-of-homeland-security-shutdown_n_6738120.html
.
__________________________________________
February 17, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Political
amazon, Andrew Hanen, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Immigration Executive Actions, business, Business News, executive actions, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Immigration Executive Actions, Immigration Lawsuit, Latino Politics, Lawsuit Executive Action Immigration, medicine, mental-health, Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Executive Actions Immigration, preliminary injunction, research, Science, Science News, Slideshow, States Lawsuit Obama Immigration, technology, Technology News, Texas v. USA, travel, U.S. District Court, vacation, Video, Washington
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Monday that will temporarily prevent the Obama administration from moving forward with its executive actions on immigration while a lawsuit against the president works its way through the courts.
The order, by Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, was an early stumble for the administration in what will likely be a long legal battle over whether President Barack Obama overstepped his constitutional authority with the wide-reaching executive actions on immigration he announced last November.
While the injunction does not pronounce Obama’s actions illegal, it prevents the administration from implementing them until the court rules on their constitutionality.
.
Reform Would Save $410 Billion Over The Next 10 Years – The immigration reform bill proposed by the “gang of eight” senators would save $410 billion over the next decade, according to an analysis from Gordon Gray, the director of fiscal policy at the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank. The savings would come largely from a boost in GDP resulting from undocumented immigrants gaining citizenship and in turn likely making more money.
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/17/lawsuit-obama-immigration_n_6680366.html
.
__________________________________________
January 30, 2015
Mohenjo
Political
amazon, business, Business News, Department of Health, enrollment targets, Health Care, Health Care Reform, health coverage, Health Insurance, health insurance exchange, health insurance plan, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, Jeffrey Young on Health Care, medicine, mental-health, Obamacare, Obamacare Enrollment, Obamacare Enrollment 2015, Obamacare Enrollment Totals, private health insurance, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, Uninsured, vacation
FROM
Huffpost Politics
Click link below picture
.
More than 9.5 million people have signed up for private health insurance coverage this year using the Obamacare exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed Tuesday, putting the program within striking distance of meeting its enrollment targets.
The deadline to choose a health insurance plan on the Affordable Care Act’s exchange marketplaces like HealthCare.gov and Covered California is Feb. 15. Federal officials projected at least 10.3 million would be enrolled by that date, and that at least 9 million would have this form of health coverage by the end of the year. The new figures do not reflect how many enrollees have paid for their insurance, which is the final step to securing coverage.
With the technical failings of HealthCare.gov and several state-run health insurance exchange websites behind them, the marketplaces mostly are managing this year’s sign-up period smoothly. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 42 percent of enrollees through mid-January — 3 million people — are new to the exchanges, while most others are renewing coverage. Enrollment for 2015 insurance plans began Nov. 15.
.
With one month remaining in this year’s Obamacare sign-up period, 9.5 million people have enrolled, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday. | AP Photo/Mandel Ngan
.
.
Click link below for story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/obamacare-enrollment-2015_n_6556952.html?ir=Politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016
.
__________________________________________
Older Entries
Newer Entries
James' World 2 