Social Policy and Change: Wednesday's Daily Brief: Voter ID Laws Are 'Poll Taxes'

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

	POLITICS Now Lesbians Have A Super PAC
	GREEN Yes, Climate Change Is Increasing The Odds Of Some Crazy Weather, Scientists Report
	FOOD FREE SLURPEES!
	WEIRD NEWS Pauline Potter, World's Heaviest Woman, Credits Sex For 98-Pound Weight Loss
	CELEBRITY Sofia Vergara Is Engaged!

BLOG POSTS

	Andy Stern: Palin Is Right: House Death Panel Vote "Is Downright Evil" -- People Would Die! This week, the Death Panel has finally raised its deadly head, not in HHS or the Obama Administration, but in the Republican-led US House of Representatives.
	Rev. Jesse Jackson: Put U.S. Jobs Above D.C. Partisanship This economy is not working for most Americans. With hard-hit families tightening their belts, employers won't hire until they see a lot more customers with cash in their pockets.
	Robert Reich: The Truth About Obama's Tax Proposal (and the Lies the Regressives Are Telling About It) Everyone is treated exactly the same. Everyone gets a one-year extension of the Bush tax cut on the first $250,000 of income. No "class warfare." Yet regressive Republicans want Americans to believe differently.
	Taylor Cotter: A Struggle of Not Struggling I came down on the 'right' side of every statistic -- I found a job in my field that actually pays well, I'm living on my own, and seem to have everything that these other college graduates are dying to have. But what about that 10-cents-a-word life that I always wanted? What about New York City?
	Lillian Daniel: 10 Signs You Should Not Be Getting Married in a Church Here's one: You find yourself asking the clergy to take all the references to Jesus out of the service.