
On this day: 2012 – GOP presidential primary debate scheduled on PBS.
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On this day:
2012 – New Hampshire Republican Primary
1967 – PBS launches as a 70-station network (National Educational Broadcasting).

On this day:
1979 – U.S. Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) a Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses.

On this day:
2012 – New Hampshire Republican Primary Candidate Debate scheduled on ABC.
1817 – Second Bank of U.S. opens

On this day:
1999 – The 106th Congress opens with their first legislative agenda item: the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton.

The fight to improve the health and well-being of our citizens…must be renewed in each generation with equal vigor, or will suffer setbacks from conservative forces that resist change. If we want to remain competitive, just, and successful in 2012 and beyond, we must embrace change, must believe in a better society, and must continue caring against overwhelmingly pervasive apathy and disillusionment. Start your day in the right frame of mind with our daily devotional…

‘The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.’
~ Richard Feynman, physicist (1918-1988)

The old Biblical idiom “out of the mouths of babes” couldn’t be more apt than for this brave young man. Eight-year-old Elijah confronted crass, homophobic Michele Bachmann at a book signing and gave her a piece of his mind on her hateful rhetoric against people like his mom, a gay parent.

When you finally, truly internalize the injustice of your country, you can’t go back to sleep. Instead, you start re-evaluating how you’ve been distracting yourself, and who is profiting from your trance. When you see that it’s the one percent profiting—that the one percent is standing atop the ninety-nine—you realize if we all shift, the one percent will fall.

I will never forget where I was on that day, ten years ago, when I first heard of the events unfolding in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.. Now, a full decade later, we pause to honor the lives lost on that tragic day, to pay respect to all those who suffered from such a ruthless political act, and to reflect on what has happened in the intervening years.
Mexico held a national census in 2010, with hundreds of thousands of workers going door to door across the nation for one month. Citizens were enthusiastic about the count, and unlike here in the U.S., it didn’t garner the same ‘invasion of privacy’ nonsense spread around by Tea Baggers, despite having far more intrusive questions. [...]
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