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California lawmakers are tip-toeing toward giving cities, counties and school districts broad new authority to ask voters those questions.
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Under his Senate Bill 653, local governments and schools could chose from a smorgasbord of levies to raise money for local services and classrooms. The taxes could be as narrow as new charges on medical marijuana stores, sweetened beverages and alcohol or as broad as a local personal income tax and fees on extracting oil. Amounts would be capped at various levels depending on the tax.
"The bill itself would not raise local taxes by one penny," Steinberg said. Later, he added, "The whole point of the bill is... to give communities a choice, not to dictate what the choice should be."
He said the measure leaves voter protections untouched. Current law requires voter approval for many tax and bond measures, and some must pass by a supermajority — two-thirds in some cases — to be enacted.
Beyond the broad debate about whether or not taxes should be raised, some question whether the proposal raises a basic fairness issue if the outcome is an even greater patchwork of tax rates and revenues across the state.
Is it fair, or as some have suggested, a violation of equal protection laws, for poorer communities that reject taxes to receive second-class basic services while neighbors willing to pay more enjoy faster responses from police and firefighters, among other benefits?
The California Supreme Court has weighed in when it comes to schools. Its historic 1971 decision in Serrano vs. Priest forced California to seek to equalize per pupil funding to close glaring disparities. Would it take a similar stand when it came to life-and-death police and fire protection?
"The way that I look at this, in the big picture, is some inequities can be addressed through the state playing a role," Steinberg said. "But where we stand now, in terms of a $10 billion deficit without sufficient revenues, it really down to something less than perfect versus doing nothing."
The measure also could also reheat competition for big box stores and auto malls shopping for tax- and regulation-friendly places to open or relocate. Those decisions could be driven by what kinds of taxes are levied where.
After clearing one committee, the measure is likely to be held in abeyance until a budget deal is struck. Steinberg makes no secret that his measure is a Plan B in case Republicans and Democrats continue to disagree over the need for a statewide election on taxes.


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Personhood USA is not used to electoral victories.
On Tuesday, the Colorado-based group failed for the third time to pass a ballot measure granting legal rights to zygotes in its home state. It consoled itself that at least the measure — whose scope had been somewhat narrowed in an effort to attract voters — lost less badly than it had in the past.
Adding insult to injury, Colorado's successful Republican Senate candidate, Cory Gardner, had renounced his support for the amendment and started lying about the fact that he was still supporting a similar measure in the U.S. House, causing Personhood USA's head, Keith Mason, to joke about dressing up as someone stabbed in the back by Gardner for Halloween.
But the group did find one thing to be very happy about this week. In a press release that serves as a barely veiled dig at Gardner, Personhood USA congratulates successful Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst "for defending personhood during [a] principled Senate victory." After falsely claiming in a debate that a state-level personhood bill she supported wouldn't actually do anything but instead was just a symbolic "statement," Ernst later confirmed that she would in fact support a federal-level personhood bill.
Personhood USA cites Ernst's support for their cause to encourage Republican presidential candidates vying to win the Iowa caucuses to embrace similarly radical anti-choice stands:
"Joni Ernst didn't just say she was pro-life, she actually had the courage to act pro-life," said Keith Mason, President of Personhood USA. "After all, supporting personhood rights for the unborn is what it means to be pro-life. By doubling down on her support for personhood and energizing her pro-life base, she was able to win her race by a wide margin."
Ernst's victory sends a clear message to potential Republican presidential candidates who want to win the Iowa caucuses. In June, a personhood resolution on the South Carolina GOP ballot won by a landslide with 79% support from voters.
"Republican presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa and South Carolina should pay attention to the grassroots majority who want a candidate that acts pro-life," Mason continued. "Ernst's margin of victory is further confirmation that courageous integrity and fidelity to core pro-life values are a winning combination. While some other candidates narrowly eked by after turning their backs on their pro-life constituencies, Ernst's unapologetic strategy reaped major dividends."
Ernst will hardly be alone as a personhood champion in Congress. A personhood bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul currently has 21 cosponsors in the Senate and a House bill has 132 cosponsors…including Gardner.
Democratic Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin drew criticism from right and left last week when he urged voters not to choose Joni Ernst, the Republican candidate to replace him, simply because she's "really attractive" and "sounds nice."
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan apparently didn't get the memo.
The former Republican presidential candidate dedicated a good portion of an interview with Newsmax today to gushing about how now Senator-elect Ernst is "a gal with a real sense of humor and a fighting spirit" and "has the same kind of attractiveness that Sarah Palin had at the start and that Michele Bachmann gained in the Iowa caucuses, being a very attractive, outspoken person, a woman in the GOP full of passion and full of hard-core philosophy."
It turns out that by branding themselves as members of a party that has returned to its mainstream, center-right roots after successfully stamping out a Tea Party rebellion, even "establishment" Republican candidates are able to hold all sorts of extreme views without any consequences.
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that a party that regularly endorses candidates who deny climate science and denounce evolution has moved the political center so far to the right that even candidates with radical views can still be treated as moderates. These days, Republicans win kudos simply for stating that they don't want to ban birth control or destroy the economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling.
This dynamic has allowed any number of conspiracy theories to flourish in the GOP. Here are five conspiracy theories that newly elected members of the United States Congress will be bringing with them to Washington next year:
1) Agenda 21 is Coming!
Agenda 21, a two-decade-old non-binding treaty on sustainable development methods, recently emerged as the latest source of right-wing anxiety.
Ted Cruz predicted that Agenda 21 will bring an end to paved roads and golf courses and Glenn Beck wrote a dystopian thriller about its dire consequences.
Senator-elect Joni Ernst, a Republican of Iowa, shares their fears. Last year, Ernst predicted that Agenda 21 agents may start "moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers and then telling them that you don't have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind and it's bad for the United States, bad for families here in the state of Iowa."
She later warned that Agenda 21 will compel people to move into designated "urban centers" and "take away our individual liberties, our freedoms as United States citizens."
2) Just Making Stuff Up About ISIS
Never mind the fact that there have been exactly zero official reports of ISIS members coming to the U.S. via the southern border, "closing the border" has emerged as a leading Republican talking point when describing how they plan to fight the terrorist group.
Tom Cotton, the Arkansas congressman who won his race for U.S. Senate yesterday, said during his campaign that his opponent and President Obama are "refusing to secure our border" and as a result, ISIS is now at the gates: "Groups like the Islamic State collaborate with drug cartels in Mexico who have clearly shown they're willing to expand outside the drug trade into human trafficking and potentially even terrorism. They could infiltrate our defenseless border and attack us right here in places like Arkansas."
The conspiracy theory about ISIS infiltrating the U.S. through the border with Mexico first emerged on the conspiracy theory outlet WorldNetDaily and, as these things typically go, was then picked up by pundits on Fox News. Eventually, the fallacious claim became a great way for Republican candidates like David Perdue and Thom Tillis to attack their opponents on both foreign policy and immigration reform in one talking point.
3) Beware Blood Moons
While conservative politicians have denounced the science behind climate change as a big lie, some are very interested in the "science" behind "blood moons," with more Religious Right activists arguing that lunar eclipses are actually signs of God's impending judgment against America for policies such as abortion rights and LGBT equality.
Jody Hice, a Georgia Republican who just won a seat in the U.S. House, for example, told listeners on his talk radio show that the appearance of blood moons "have preceded world-changing, shaking-type events."
"I certainly am aware of the fact that every time there have been blood moons like this, there have been major events that have followed," he said.
Perhaps Congress should move to study blood moons rather than climate change!
4) Gay Recruitment in the Classroom
Are sex-ed classes just a secret plot to turn kids gay? Yes, according to Wisconsin state senator and soon-to-be U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, who once warned that some school classes are the result of an "agenda which is left unsaid is that some of those who throw it out as an option would like it if more kids became homosexuals."
Grothman instead proposed that schools enact their own "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policies, lest growing support for gay rights in the U.S. lead to divine punishment.
Hice, as it happens, shares Grothman concerns about gay recruitment, once citing a satirical 1987 essay to claim that gay people want to "sodomize your sons" and "seduce them in your schools."
5) Identity of the Antichrist Revealed!
At least one Republican candidate knows the true identity of the Antichrist, and it's Hillary Clinton.
Ryan Zinke, the successful Montana GOP U.S. House candidate who helped launch the Super PAC Special Operations for America, told a Republican group that Clinton is Satan's bride, and he knows this to be so because he speaks the truth:
"It's time to stop the lies. Let's talk about the truth," Zinke said. "Who trusts the U.S. government?" he asked rhetorically. "No one in this room. I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs."
Zinke said he wants to restore truth, grace, honor and decency, which he called "our moral compass. It's always been Judeo-Christian," he said. With the present administration, "It's whatever you can get away with. I will never bow to pressure. I will do what's right," he said....
"We need to focus on the real enemy," he said, referring to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom he called the "anti-Christ."
After getting called out for the remark, Zinke later said that the "anti-Christ" comment was a joke.
So there you have it, in an election where pundits raved about establishment Republicans "crushing" Tea Party insurgents, it seems that the GOP establishment has simply appropriated the Tea Party's tarnished brand of paranoid politics and unmistakable extremism.
For an example of the dilemma that today's Republican Party finds itself in when it comes to abortion rights and radical "personhood" laws, look no further than Mitt Romney.
After running as a pro-choice Republican in Massachusetts, Romney transformed into a "severely conservative," anti-choice presidential candidate, then ultimately came full circle when he closed out his 2012 campaign with TV ads trumpeting his support for abortion rights in certain cases.
Perhaps Romney's advisers figured out that the candidate's opposition to abortion rights would prove unpopular among the general electorate. Exit polls in 2012 showed that 59 percent of voters supported legal abortion.
It turned out that Romney's professed commitment to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood and pledges to support state and national "personhood amendments" — which would ban abortion in all cases and also outlaw common forms of birth control by giving personhood rights to zygotes — weren't exactly winning positions.
Several Republican politicians in this election cycle have followed Romney's lead by painstakingly trying to paint themselves as the real pro-choice candidates, despite having a long history of opposing abortion rights. Still others are flat-out denying that they support extreme anti-choice legislation like 'personhood' bills…even when they are on the record supporting them.
Take Cory Gardner, the congressman running for U.S. Senate in Colorado, for instance.
With the personhood amendment on the Colorado ballot for the fourth time this year, it must have been just a coincidence that Gardner renounced his support for the unpopular measure just three weeks after he announced his U.S. Senate bid. In his previous races for the U.S. House, Gardner boasted of circulating petitions in favor of the personhood amendment, and as a congressman he cosponsored a federal personhood bill.
Despite claiming that he is now a personhood opponent, Gardner remains to this day a cosponsor of the federal personhood legislation.
Instead of explaining the discrepancy, Gardner just claims that the personhood bill he is cosponsoring, the "Life at Conception Act," simply doesn't exist. As one journalist interviewing Gardner pointed out, he seems to be alone in that view: supporters and opponents of the personhood movement alike, including the authors of the bill in question, disagree with his unique reading of the bill.
"We don't see how the Colorado initiative and the federal bill, which supporters in Congress describe as a 'personhood' measure, are different on this point," FactCheck.org reports, noting that even a spokesman for Personhood USA said "there's no reason for [Gardner] to pull local support while he's still 100 percent behind the federal amendment."
Another personhood group, the National Pro-Life Alliance, similarly promotes [PDF] the "Life at Conception Act" because it "is legislation that, quite simply, would declare the unborn to be 'persons' under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution" and would ensure that "Roe v. Wade would be effectively reversed."
When pressed on the issue in a debate, Gardner simply avoided the question.
As Gardner's candidacy's proves, sometimes it is easier to just make blatantly false statements about your position than to actually change it.
Taking a page from Gardner, Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst has also resorted to rewriting history about her record on personhood.
Ernst supported a personhood amendment in the Iowa legislature and recently committed to cosponsoring a federal personhood bill if elected. When called out by her Democratic opponent for backing a state personhood amendment, Ernst falsely claimed that it was merely a symbolic measure.
As Ed Kilgore writes, politicians like Gardner and Ernst are just trying "to weasel out of such positions the moment they become inconvenient."
Other Republican Life at Conception Act cosponsors in the House, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Steve Daines of Montana, are also running for seats in the U.S. Senate. North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis also pledged to support a personhood amendment.
Tillis and Gardner, like other Republicans who are trying to come across as reproductive rights supporters, are now highlighting their support for the over-the-counter sale of birth control, which actual reproductive health activists note will actually make birth control more expensive.
Meanwhile, as personhood supporters these Republicans are backing laws that would ban several forms of contraception that they claim to want to make more accessible.
As Republicans face pressure from their anti-choice base to endorse radical "personhood" measures, they are faced with a choice: alienate staunch anti-choice conservatives or turn off moderates. Many, like Gardner and Ernst, are apparently finding that it's easier to just lie to voters than to defend their views.
RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week's most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.
With the election less than two weeks away, conservative commentators are making some pretty terrifying predictions about how President Obama will serve out the remainder of his term. But last-minute Obama-bashing won't distract them from their other, equally important, job: attacking gays and lesbians.
5. Ernst Goes There
Since securing the GOP nomination for her state's open U.S. Senate seat, Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst has been trying to downplay her extremist record.
But the Republican candidate is having a hard time running away from her past remarks on such issues as the danger of the UN's Agenda 21 and the ability of local law enforcement to arrest federal officials implementing Obamacare.
In the latest example of Ernst's record catching up to her, a video surfaced this week of the candidate telling an audience at a 2012 NRA event that the reason she takes her gun "virtually everywhere" is because she is afraid of not only violent assailants but also the government: "I believe in the right to defend myself and my family — whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."
Ed Kilgore explains the thinking behind Ernst's claim: "The idea here is to intimidate liberals, and 'looters' and secular socialists, and those people, that there are limits to what the good virtuous folk of the country will put up with in the way of interference with their property rights and their religious convictions and their sense of how the world ought to work. If push comes to shove, they're heavily armed, and bullets outweigh ballots."
4. Obama Will Kill Us All!
If you wonder where Joni Ernst gets her ideas about an imminent government crackdown that may require a violent response, look no further than Fox News, where just this week Sean Hannity hosted conservative pundit Mark Levin to discuss President Obama's nefarious agenda.
Levin told Hannity that Obama is imposing "quintessential statism" on America that "is a disaster," Media Matters reports.
"The country has gone to Hell under this president and under the Democrat [sic] Party," Levin said, warning that after the election, "with Obama it's going to get worse, you're going to see his full Mussolini coming out."
Wayne Allyn Root, another conservative commentator, managed to top Levin's remarks in an interview on the "Point of View" radio show, where he claimed that Obama "was sent here to destroy this country," possibly by the "communist forces" of the Soviet Union or the Bilderbergs, and is "taking down the entire America." Root added: "We've got to remove him from office and fast before he kills all of us."
3. Latest Voter Fraud Menace
We keep hearing stories about Republicans increasing their outreach to African American and Latino voters, but their enthusiastic efforts to prevent people from registering to vote and from casting ballots may not be helping their case.
Take a recent incident in Arizona, where a GOP official and conservative media outlets fumed that an activist with a progressive group dropped off a box of absentee ballots at a polling center, which is completely legal. Immediately, conservatives accused the activist — a Latino man — of committing voter fraud through "ballot stuffing" and wondered if he was a violent "illegal alien."
Of course, not only is delivering ballots on behalf of voters legal in Arizona, but Wonkette notes that Republicans brought in Mitt Romney to host a ballot drop-off campaign event this very week.
Thursday night, Mitt Romney made an appearance in Mesa, Arizona, to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey. A graphic on a couple of conservative blogs, reproduced up top, urged attendees to "Bring your Early Ballots!" so GOP get-out-the-vote volunteers could collect them and get them to the county elections office.
Just remember, it's only okay if Republicans do it, otherwise it's voter fraud.
2. Beware Gay Plants, Or Something
Matt Barber's website BarbWire today published an unintentionally hilarious piece by columnist Lee Duigon, who compares gays to super-plants from outer space that eat people.
"Gaydeology," the dogma that "sexual liberation" is the highest moral value, presses forward aggressively on all fronts. Christians are to be punished by the state if they refuse to knuckle under. But the militant "gays" are only the street muscle for a "progressive" project to beat down church, family, and anything else that competes with the secular, God-denying state for the loyalty of every citizen. This vision for America, and for all the other countries of the Western world, has roots in the 19th century that sprouted into man-eating plants in the 20th, to become a worldwide plague in the 21st.
It is reminiscent of "The Day of the Triffids," a classic horror movie about plants from outer space that infest the earth and strike blind anyone who gets too close.
Well, we have been blind, haven't we? Blind to threats to our freedom, blind to the vast incompetence of government, and blind to its insatiable lust for power. Worst of all, we have been both blind and deaf to God our maker and our Father, whose blessings have been the lifeblood of America.
Maybe that should be the rallying cry of the anti-gay movement: Beware the triffids!
1. Gay 'Terrorists' Out To Get Us
Pat Robertson, who once warned viewers that they could become the victims of a gay 'AIDS ring' attack, lashed out at gay rights advocates on "The 700 Club" this week and accused them of trying to throw their opponents in jail.
Robertson didn't hold back, warning that gay "terrorists" are launching their own Spanish Inquisition: "These people are terrorists, they're radicals and they're extremists. No Christian in his right mind would ever try to enforce somebody against their belief or else suffer jail. They did that during the Inquisition, it was horrible, it was a black mark on our history, but it isn't being done now."
Of course, Robertson's argument relied on a twisted reading of a legal case in Houston, Texas, but that didn't stop him from attacking the "monstrous" gay rights movement.
The conventional wisdom is that so-called establishment Republican candidates by and large triumphed over Tea Party radicals this election cycle. But the truth is that those victories were the result of a party establishment that itself has moved far to the right. Even where Tea Party candidates have failed, the Tea Party movement has increasingly remade the "establishment" GOP in its own image.
It is now core doctrine in the GOP to deny the science behind climate change, endorse sweeping abortion bans and engage in anti-government rhetoric reminiscent of the John Birch Society.
As Tea Party icon Michele Bachmann put it last week, while she may be retiring from Congress, she leaves with the knowledge that "even the establishment moved toward embracing the Tea Party's messaging."
Here, we look at five Republican congressional candidates who could be heading to the Capitol next year. Some have been labeled "establishment," some "Tea Party," but all are emblematic of the party's strong turn to the right.
1. Joni Ernst
One Iowa conservative pundit has described state Sen. Joni Ernst, now the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, as "the choice of the Republican establishment" who has "been backed by national Republican establishment figures like Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, and Sen. Marco Rubio."
But in today's Republican Party, even an "establishment" candidate like Ernst can be just as extreme as a Tea Party insurgent.
Ernst subscribes to the radical, neo-Confederate idea that states can "nullify" federal laws that they deem to be unconstitutional — and even went so far as to suggest that local law enforcement officers can arrest government officials for simply administering federal laws.
In response to a 2012 candidate survey for a group affiliated with former congressman Ron Paul, Ernst pledged to "support legislation to nullify ObamaCare and authorize state and local law enforcement to arrest federal officials attempting to implement the unconstitutional health care scheme known as ObamaCare." In a speech to a Religious Right group the next year, she criticized Congress for passing "laws that the states are considering nullifying."
As a state senator, Ernst backed resolutions calling on Iowa to defy federal environmental regulations and gun laws. Ernst's campaign denies that she has ever supported nullification, despite her own statements and positions in favor of the radical ideology.
Not only does Ernst think states should simply be able to void laws they don't like, but she also wants to abolish the federal minimum wage and eliminate federal agencies such as the Department of Education, the EPA and the IRS. She also came out in favor of a plan, known as the "Fair Tax," that would scrap the income tax and replace it with a federal sales tax of 23 percent on nearly all goods.
Ernst has also repeatedly floated the idea of impeaching President Obama for becoming a "dictator."
Her anti-government paranoia even extends to taking on a non-binding United Nations sustainable development agreement, Agenda 21, which she warned will pave the way for the UN to remove Americans from rural lands and force them into cities. She has even disagreed with the official investigations finding that Iraq did not have WMDs at the time of the 2003 U.S. invasion.
But Ernst does support government intervention when it comes to women's reproductive rights, sponsoring the Iowa personhood amendment, which would ban abortion in all cases along with common forms of birth control. "I think the provider should be punished, if there were a personhood amendment," Ernst said, but has since insisted that she thinks the amendment would be purely symbolic.
Ernst has repeatedly denied the science of climate change, arguing that she has "not seen proven proof" of human influence on the climate and dismissed the role of "man-made activities."
As Ernst's candidacy shows, the line dividing "establishment Republicans" from fringe right-wing zealots has become so blurred that it has effectively vanished.
2. Thom Tillis
Like Ernst, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis is widely considered the choice of the "establishment" and "mainstream" wing of the GOP, while his extremist record shows just how far to the right even the party's "mainstream" has moved.
In 2007, Tillis blasted government policies that "have redistributed trillions of dollars of wealth," calling them "reparations" for slavery. The same year, he opposed a resolution apologizing for an 1898 massacre of African Americans in a North Carolina city, explaining that the amendment didn't sufficiently honor white Republicans.
Tillis supported the repeal of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act — which allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences based on evidence of racial bias — and backed heavily restrictive voting laws designed to weaken the black vote. In a 2012 interview, he lamented that Democrats were gaining ground in North Carolina thanks to growing Latino and African American populations while the "traditional population of North Carolina and the United States is more or less stable."
Tillis has said he would support a Personhood Amendment banning abortion in all cases and prohibiting common forms of birth control, and believes that states have the right to ban contraceptives. In his role as state House speaker, Tillis led attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and to add abortion rights restrictions to a motorcycle safety bill. A Tillis-backed "targeted regulations of abortion providers" (TRAP) bill last year threatened to close all but one of the state's 16 abortion clinics.
Following a federal court ruling striking down North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage, Tillis attempted to preserve the ban by teaming up with the founder of one of the country's leading anti-gay groups. At a 2011 town hall meeting, he suggested that marriage equalitywould lead to "Big Government." Tillis is also a climate change denialist and suggested that liberals plotted to use climate science "as a Trojan horse for their energy policy."
Tillis wants to abolish the federal minimum wage, supported the GOP-led federal government shutdown (before reversing himself) and cut jobless benefits so severely that it made North Carolina ineligible to receive federal compensation.
While cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from education spending and blocking the expansion of Medicaid under the guise of fiscal stewardship, Tillis shepherded through a massive tax break to benefit top earners and corporations while effectively raising taxes on the lower 80 percent of taxpayers.
At an event in 2011, he suggested that the government cut public spending by finding "a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance" — specifically by setting disabled people against "these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government."
He has now pivoted his campaign to focus on addressing the menacing specter of people infected with Ebola coming to Mexico to illegally cross the southern border into the U.S.
3. Jody Hice
Jody Hice entered politics as a Religious Right activist and a conservative talk radio show host, making him part of two worlds that are at the core of the conservative movement. Now, as the frontrunner in an open Georgia House seat, currently held by outgoing far-right Rep. Paul Broun, Hice is set to bring his right-wing agenda to Congress.
Hice made his first foray into politics by trying to convince local governments to erect monuments of the Ten Commandments in public places, which were deemed unconstitutional by, in Hice's words, "judicial terrorists ." A Christian Nationalist, Hice thinks the founding fathers would support his congressional campaign and has posted on his Facebook page numerous fake quotes from our nation's founders about the dangers of "Big Government" and the need to mix religion and government.
Hice outlines his political beliefs and fears in his book, "It's Now or Never: A Call to Reclaim America," in which he claims that abortion rights make the U.S. worse than Nazi Germany; endorses the fringe "nullification" theory; argues that Islam "does not deserve First Amendment protection"; and spells out his worries about gay people trying to "sodomize" children and persecute Christians, fearing that children will be "preyed upon" by gay "recruitment" efforts until they embrace "destructive," "militant homosexuality."
In one episode of his radio program, Hice suggested that gay people seek therapy, lamenting that "we are enslaving and entrapping potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals in a lifestyle that frankly they are not." During another radio commentary, Hice denied that legal discrimination towards gays and lesbains exists, before comparing homosexuality to incest. If anything, according to Hice, it is the Christian community that faces government discrimination as a result of a Satanic plot to "chip away" at "our Christian rights."
When armed militia groups gathered at the Bundy ranch in Nevada to back a rancher and race-theorist who refused to pay grazing fees for using federal property, Hice praised the groups that were threatening violence against law enforcement officers. He has argued that individuals have the right to have "any, any, any, any weapon that our government and law enforcement possesses," including "bazookas and missiles," in order to give citizens a fighting chance in a potential war against the government.
This summer, as thousands of Central American children fleeing violence in their home countries reached the U.S., causing a humanitarian crisis, Hice suggested armed militia groups organize at the southern border.
The GOP nominee blamed mass shootings such as those that occurred at Virginia Tech and in Aurora, Colorado, on abortion rights, the separation of church and state, and the teaching of evolution, and said that the Sandy Hook school shooting was the result of "kicking God out of the public square" with the end of school-organized prayer.
Hice also believes that we are now living in the End Times, worrying that "we have little time" left on earth and citing the appearance of blood moons as proof of imminent cataclysmic, "world-changing events."
While Hice is worried about the destructive consequences of blood moons, he dismissed climate change as a "propaganda" tool of the "Radical Environmental Movement" to make people of believe in an "impending environmental disaster due to 'Global Warming.'"
His theological views also make him skeptical of women running for public office, saying a woman should only do so if she remains "within the authority of her husband."
4. Glenn Grothman
Wisconsin state senator and anti-Kwanzaa crusader Glenn Grothman is running for an open House seat, from which he hopes to legislate in the same manner as his "soul mate" Rick Santorum.
Not one to hold back, Grothman has lambasted union activists protesting a law targeting labor rights as "slobs" and proposed doing away with the weekend and paid sick leave. So fearful of "Big Government" is Grothman that he also tried to put an end to municipal water disinfection programs.
Grothman opposes abortion rights without exceptions in cases of rape, incest and a woman's health, even working to make it a felony offense for a doctor to perform an abortion that could save a woman's life. Grothman successfully passed laws requiring doctors to read scripts meant to discourage women from terminating their pregnancies, which he said was necessary because oftentimes "women are looking for someone to talk them out of it." He also sponsored a 24-hour waiting period for abortions that only exempts survivors of "forcible rape" who file a police report.
The Republican lawmaker worries that "gals" are running — and ruining — America by leading a "war on men." He has said the U.S. "is in the process of committing suicide today" as a result of single mothers collecting public benefits and pushed a bill to declare single parenthood "a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect," calling single parenthood a "choice" and the result of a culture that "encourages a single motherhood lifestyle."
"I think a lot of women are adopting the single motherhood lifestyle because the government creates a situation in which it is almost preferred," he said in a 2012 interview with Alan Colmes, adding that he believes women aren't telling the truth about having unintended pregnancies: "I think people are trained to say that 'this is a surprise to me,' because there's still enough of a stigma that they're supposed to say this."
In a similar vein, he defended Gov. Scott Walker's decision to rescind a pay equity law because, according to Grothman, pay disparities are due to the fact that "money is more important for men."
Grothman is a sponsor of the Wisconsin Personhood resolution [PDF], which would ban abortion in all cases and many forms of birth control, and his campaign has touted the support of personhood activists.
He once described Planned Parenthood as "probably the most racist organization" in the country, adding that he believes the group targets Asian Americans for abortion. In 2007, he voted against a bill that made sure hospitals provide information about emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.
He opposes laws protecting employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, and once tried to strip a sex education bill of a nondiscrimination provision that he suspected was part of a plot to make kids gay. Grothman also demanded that his state refuse to follow a court order to recognize same-sex marriages, which he feared would "legitimiz[e] illegal and immoral marriages."
Not content with just opposing gay rights in the U.S., Grothman also defended a Ugandan law that makes homosexuality a crime punishable by sentences including life in prison. He even suggested that "unbelievable" American criticism of Uganda's law would prompt God to punish the United States.
Although Grothman fears that America might incur God's wrath for standing up to state-sanctioned violence against gays and lesbians, he is less concerned about climate change, which he says "doesn't exist." Grothman told one interviewer: "This environmental stuff, this is the idea that is driven by this global warming thing. Global warming is not man-made and there is barely any global warming at all, there's been no global warming for the last twelve or thirteen years. I see a shortage of Republicans stepping up to the plate and saying, 'look, this global warming stuff is not going on."
5. Zach Dasher
Taking advantage of his family's new-found reality TV fame, "Duck Dynasty" cousin Zach Dasher is running for U.S. Congress in Louisiana in an election where the top two candidates advance to a runoff vote if no candidate takes over 50 percent of the vote.
Dasher cited the success of "Duck Dynasty" as one of the reasons he entered the race: "Five years ago, I didn't see an opportunity or window of opportunity to get into this type of venture. But here recently, obviously with the family name and being able to get my message out there, I saw an opportunity that I couldn't pass up."
Of his uncle Phil Robertson, who came under fire for making statements in a magazine interview defending Jim Crow and demonizing gays and lesbians, Dasher gushed: "The support of the family means a lot to me. We share a very similar background and philosophy, and our spiritual beliefs are the same as well. They're going to be a big part of the campaign. I'm going to have Phil as my PR director, since he's so good with the media."
Robertson also appears in commercials promoting Dasher's candidacy, and Dasher has said he agreed with Robertson's remarks about the gay community. Dasher's wife wrote in a blog post that just as people should break out of addictions to alcohol and heroin, gay people can "overcome" and "come out of" homosexuality and find "healing."
One of Dasher's opponents, Rep. Vince McAllister, is a freshman Republican congressman who said he would retire after he was caught on video kissing a staffer who was not his wife, then changed his mind. Dasher says he is running as an even more conservative candidate than the GOP incumbent, and has received backing from Tea Party and pro-corporate groups such as the Club for Growth and Citizens United.
"My platform begins with God. That's really what this whole thing is about. In Washington, when we look at what's going on, we see an erosion away from that platform," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "We see the ruling classes kick God out and in His place they place themselves. That scares me because we didn't send these folks to Washington, D.C. to determine our rights, we sent them there to defend our rights."
Dasher fears that the federal government "believes that they're God" and is intent on "gain[ing] control over every aspect of our lives" as part of a plan to create a "culture of dependency." In a personal podcast, Dasher said the "swift drift away from God will usher in tyranny and death," warning: "Tyranny will get its foothold — if it already doesn't have it — and in the end, there will be mass carnage and mass death. It's inevitable."
Dasher blamed the Sandy Hook shooting on atheists, whom he also accused of "brainwashing a generation " through rap music and ushering in "moral decay" and the erosion of liberty. He said that schools should "arm the teachers," arguing that laws targeting gun violence actually leave people as "unarmed sitting ducks, waiting for someone to come in and shoot their schools up." Dasher recently claimed that the Second Amendment was established to allow people to defend themselves against "a tyrannical government," warning that government officials intend to repeal the amendment in order to eliminate all other freedoms.
Carlos Maza @ Equality Matters: Another Fox News Lie About The Subpoenas Of Houston's Anti-Gay Pastors.
Zack Ford @ Think Progress: The Real Reason Houston Subpoenaed Pastors' Sermons.
David Ferguson @ Raw Story: Iowa's Joni Ernst: Obamacare is bad because people should rely on churches for help.
Dara Lind @ Vox: This new GOP attack ad about a black criminal makes the Willie Horton ad look tame.
RWW's Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week's most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.
Religious Right activists claimed this week that they are losing their "right" to not see gay people, even going so far as to compare their situation to the Holocaust.
5) It Ain't Easy Being Straight
American Family Association president Tim Wildmon thinks straight people have it rough in America. In an email to the AFA's members this week, Wildmon complained that heterosexuals are being pushed into the closet and forced to watch gay people kiss "mouth to mouth" on TV.
"Straight America is scared to death of offending or potentially offending gay, lesbian and transgender people and their powerful movement. It's really embarrassing to watch," he wrote, objecting especially to "Michael Sam's mouth to mouth kiss of his lover on EPSN [sic]." Wildmon insisted that while he was grossed out by the kiss, he felt pressured by the media to enjoy it:
Sam and his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, decided to go "in your face," both to themselves (literally) and to those watching the draft on television including millions of young boys no doubt. After first kissing without debris, Sam then decided to put some cake in his mouth and go back after Vito for some more affection.
It was gross. But then I'm an old-school prude who doesn't believe men should be having sex with other men, so that is the reaction you would expect from people like me. I believe that kind of behavior is immoral, unhealthy and unnatural. If people want to live this lifestyle, that is their choice, but this idea of forcing people who disagree with it to applaud or else be shouted down, fined by the government or lose your job has gotten way out of hand.
"Now it is clear the sports world is also bowing the knee to GLBTQ," he added. "We must get more Christians to wake up and fight back or we will lose our country" to public displays of "man-to-man mouth kissing."
4) Gays Taking Away Freedom By Celebrating Pride Month
On a similar note, Linda Harvey of Mission America said this week that LGBT Pride Month celebrations have violated her freedom. She didn't say which freedoms she lost exactly, but she definitely felt oppressed!
"Such conduct is nothing to be proud of," she wrote in WorldNetDaily. "Their alleged freedom means loss of liberty for you and me."
Harvey, who wants the government to ban such celebrations from taking place, warns that "this movement is causing collateral damage in America. Are we willing to open our eyes and see where this is going? More pride means less freedom for Christians. That means loss of virtue and a farewell to America's soul. Isn't it time for America to stop the parade?"
3) Holocaust Against American Christians Approaching
In case you thought the outpourings from Wildmon and Harvey were enough, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said this week that he's pretty sure gay rights advocates will "start rolling out the boxcars to start hauling off Christians" to concentration camps any day now.
In keeping with the theme, Southern Baptist Convention official Russell Moore worried about the prospect of pastors soon "going to jail" and Liberty Counsel attorneys Mat Staver and Matt Barber offered their own Nazi Germany analogy.
2) Blame Obama (And Facebook) For Las Vegas Shooting
No one should be surprised that Alex Jones claimed that the murder of three people in Las Vegas by two far-right activists hoping to launch an anti-government revolution was actually a false flag operation by Obama.
What is slightly surprising is that the InfoWars host claimed Facebook was in on the maneuver too:
1) Agenda 21 In Iowa
Right-wing conspiracy theories and absurd allegations about how the United Nations' Agenda 21 will take away private property rights and force people into cities have truly gone mainstream in the GOP, with the latest musings about the non-binding environmental plan coming from the Iowa lawmaker who just won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate.
Joni Ernst, a Republican state senator, suggested in a 2013 speech that the United Nations will use Agenda 21 to have Iowans thrown off "their agricultural land" and "consolidated into city centers."
The Iowa-based Religious Right group The Family Leader held a forum for Republican US Senate candidates on Friday, at which the group's view that "God instituted government" figured heavily. In fact, nearly every candidate at the debate vowed that if they were to be elected to the Senate they would block federal judicial nominees who do not follow what they perceive as "natural law" or a "biblical view of justice."
Bob Vander Plaats, head of The Family Leader, opened the forum by declaring, "At The Family Leader, we believe God has three institutions: It would be the church, the family, and government."
He warned that policies such as legal abortion and marriage equality would cause God to cease blessing the country. "As we have a culture that runs further and further from God's principles, His precepts, from God's heart, it's only natural consequences that we're going to suffer," he said.
"You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country," he concluded.
Several of the candidates echoed this theme during the forum. When moderator Erick Erickson, the right-wing pundit, asked the candidates what criteria they would look for in confirming federal judges, three out of four said they would demand faith in God or adherence to "natural law."
Sam Clovis, a college professor and retired Air Force colonel, answered that he has "a very firm litmus test" on judges: "Can that judge…explain to me natural law and natural rights?"
Joni Ernst, who is currently a state senator, agreed, adding that federal judges should understand that the Constitution and all of our laws "did come from God" and that senators should "make sure that any decisions that they have made in the past are decisions that fit within that criteria."
Former federal prosecutor Matt Whitaker argued that neither Clovis' nor Ernst's answer had gone "far enough." He said that he would demand that federal judicial nominees be "people of faith" and "have a biblical view of justice."
"As long as they have that worldview, then they'll be a good judge," he said. "And if they have a secular worldview, where this is all we have here on earth, then I'm going to be very concerned about how they judge."
This all must have been very pleasing to Vander Plaats, who in 2010 orchestrated the ousting of Iowa Supreme Court justices who had ruled in favor of marriage equality, and who has repeatedly insisted that marriage equality is unconstitutional because it "goes against" the Bible and the "law of nature."


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Diamonds Show Carbon Cycle May Reach Earth's Lower Mantle
By studying the chemistry of an unorthodox set of Brazilian diamonds, a team of researchers have discovered startling new information about the carbon cycle and the theory of plate tectonics.
Researchers from the University of Bristol, Universidade de Brasilia, and the Carnegie Institution for Science studied what are known as "superdeep" diamonds, some of which originated from depths of 435 miles (700km) or more before erupting to the surface as volcanic rocks.
Most diamonds originate from depths of 120 miles (200 km) or less, and by studying these unique samples obtained from the Juina region of Brazil, the researchers were able to determine that their mineralogical composition was consistent with that of oceanic crust.
According to a press release from the Carnegie Institution, "This finding is the first direct evidence that slabs of oceanic crust sank or subducted into the lower mantle and that material, including carbon, is cycled between Earth's surface and depths of hundreds of miles."
Furthermore, in a separate media advisory, the University of Bristol noted, "The authors also observe that four of the six diamonds studied have extremely low amounts of 13C, a feature never previously seen in diamonds from the lower mantle. Low 13C is consistent with an origin of the carbon in oceanic crust at the Earth's surface."
"These and future results from investigations of diamonds and their inclusions could transform our understanding of the oxidation state, volatile content, and geological history of the lower mantle. They certainly mean that recycling of crustal materials, including carbon, is not limited to the upper mantle but extends deeper into the lower mantle," the UK university added.
Their findings were published online Friday at the Science Express website, the online version of the journal Science.
"This study shows the extent of Earth's carbon cycle on the scale of the entire planet, connecting the chemical and biological processes that occur on the surface and in the oceans to the far depths of Earth's interior," Nick Wigginton, associate editor at Science, said in a statement. "Results of this kind offer a broader perspective of planet Earth as an integrated, dynamic system."
Essentially, the study shows that the carbon cycle–the movement of the element through Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and crust–goes much deeper into the planet than originally though. Furthermore, according to a University of Bristol press release, the discovery also demonstrates that oceanic crust can reach the lower mantle, and then find its way back to the surface.
"I find it astonishing that we can use the tiniest of mineral grains to show some of the largest scale motions of the Earth's mantle," said Dr. Steven Shirey of the Carnegie Institution.
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Jacque MacKinnon
|Jacque MacKinnon
November 10, 1938
Dover, New Jersey
|March 6, 1975(aged 36)
|Fullback, Tight end
|Career highlights
Jacque Harold MacKinnon (November 10, 1938 – March 6, 1975) was an American college and professional Football receiver. A tight end, he played collegiately for Colgate University, and professionally for the American Football League's San Diego Chargers from 1961 through 1969. He also played one year for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders. He was on the Chargers' 1963 AFL Championship team in their victory over the Boston Patriots. He was an AFL All-Star in 1966 and 1968. As the last player selected in the 1961 NFL Draft, he was designated Mr. Irrelevant, however, he is the only such player ever to be eventually selected as an All-Star.
MacKinnon was out of football when he died in 1975. After fleeing the scene of a car accident and apparently drunk, MacKinnon jumped over a tall fence, not knowing about the construction site on the other side. MacKinnon fell some 30 feet and died of injuries caused by the fall.[1][2]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Ex-Pro MacKinnon Dead After Falling". The Milwaukee Sentinel. March 7, 1975. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- ^ http://www.freddickey.net/ronmix.htm
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|Mr. Irrelevant
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Mike Snodgrass
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Coding case studies: You make the call
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Use the clinical documentation below to determine the CPT codes and
modifiers to use for these two case studies.
Case study one:
Preoperative diagnosis: Morbid obesity
Procedure: Cancellation of gastric bypass, secondary to skin infection
Complications: As above
Indications: A 30-year-old female with a long history of morbid obesity,
recently underwent silastic gastric banding, and due to reflux disease,
subsequently required a procedure to loosen the band. Most recently she has
experienced significant reflux disease, and presents for removal of her band
and open Roux-en - Y gastric bypass.
Description of procedure: The patient was brought to the operating room and
placed in the supine position. General endotracheal anesthesia was
administered. The patient's gown was removed for prepping, at which point
clinicians noticed there were small, acnelike lesions over the anterior
surface of her abdomen, her intriginous areas, and on her legs. Several of
the lesions fell on the incision line.
Additionally, there was a large midline abdominal wall defect, which was
assumed to represent an abdominal wall hernia, and most likely will require
a mesh repair. For these two reasons the case was canceled after general
anesthesia was administered. The patient was awakened from anesthesia and
taken to the recovery room.
There were no immediate complications evident, with the exception of
cancellation of the case after general anesthesia.
CPT codes(s) and modifiers:
Case study two:
Clinical diagnosis: Obstructive sleep apnea
Operation: Aborted uvulopalatopharyncoplasty
Postoperative diagnosis: Same
Description of procedure: After obtaining informed consent, the patient was
taken to the operating room and placed in a supine position. The patient was
properly identified, and the anesthesia service performed bilateral superior
laryngeal nerve blocks and applied topical anesthesia to the oropharynx.
Attempts were made to orally intubate the patient, using a fiberoptic scope.
The patient exhibited significant coughing and gagging with the procedure.
It was extremely difficult to visualize the larynx. After multiple
unsuccessful attempts, the procedure was aborted. We decided to take the
patient to the recovery room and discuss further treatments of his
obstructive sleep apnea, including tracheostomy. The patient was taken to
the recovery room in stable condition. There were no complications
associated with the procedure.
Summary of findings: Aborted uvulopalatopharyncoplasty, secondary to
difficulty with fiberoptic oral intubation.
CPT codes and modifiers:
Click here to find out the answers.
This week's excerpt is adapted from the book, "The Modifier Clinic: A guide
to hospital outpatient issues," by Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS.
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