Undernews: March 20, 2014

Dems want to fix Obamacare, but can't say how

Blacks and Irish:: A complex story

Tales from the attic: The school prayer amendment

What they teach where Bill Gates and his family went and go to school

Another friend of Bill Clinton's

Word: Intelligence abuse is getting far worse

Pacific ocean scallops dying off from acidity

Word: We need neorealism

Obamacare premiums may soar

Police blotter

Pelosi hints CIA might be blackmailing Congress

Latinos become dominant ethnicity in California

Why Justice Ginsberg should retire

Law schools boosting recent grads' salaries to improve their rankings

Pacifica Radio in deep trouble

Problems we hadn't started worrying about yet

45 religious organizations back 'universal access to contraception'

McConnell's campaign uses police to bar reporter from news conference

Oscar Peterson explains piano styles to Dick Cavett

Army report credits Quakers, Mennonites and anti-war veteran groups with effectively discouraging young people from joining the military

Why a guaranteed income makes sense

Netherlands' cycle paths began 100 years ago

The apartheid of children's books: Of 3,200 children's books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people,

$250 hamburger in NYC

Head of Southern Command admits he can't stop 80% of Colombia's drug shipments to US

Unskilled and destitute are hiring targets for Fukushima cleanup

Police fail to get the message: Cops Arrest 228 At Police Brutality Protest in Montreal

Morning line
President: If Romney enters the race he would take the GOP nomination. The rest of the candidates are within a statistical tie of each other with the exception of four losers: Rubio, Jindall, Santorum and Walker.

Clinton has a a double digit lead against most likely GOP candidates, with the exception of Romney whom she leads by 9. She leads her closest Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, by 54 points.

It is possible for the GOP to pick up 19 electoral votes based on the current moving averages of polls, but in 2012 Obama won by 126 electoral votes.

Action notes
McDonald’s workers in New York, California and Michigan filed class action suits against the chain, as well as several franchises, for wage theft violations. The cases accuse the fast-food giant of “systematically stealing employees’ wages by forcing them to work off the clock, shaving hours off their time cards and not paying them overtime, among other practices,” according to a press release by the workers’ lawyers.

Populist movement growing

Seattle teachers boycott standardized tests

Word
Unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. --Andrew Jackson

Pocket paradigms
Liberalism has become the abused spouse of the Democratic right. - Sam Smith

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