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I’ve had friends who have survived malignant brain tumors and we can only hope for the best. I’ve known the guy my whole adult life and it was wonderful to watch him, over the past ten years, find peace–and the utter freedom to speak his mind–in his public life and true love with Vicky at home. That love will bolster him now, and our prayers, too.
And, no doubt, he will find some joy and hope in the fact that a cancer survivor, Jon Lester, pitched a no-hitter for his beloved Sox last night.
Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts, in which he said contraception is “not okay,” and that this would be a public policy issue he would tackle as President. In particular, he said he would “get rid of any idea that you have to have abortion coverage or contraceptive coverage” as a government policy. Start watching the following video at 17:55.
There’s nothing “wrong” with protests built around placard-hoisting and park-squatting, but Occupy the SEC is definitely doing something right with its radically different tack. The OWS-offshoot has submitted a 325-page letter to federal financial regulatory agencies on the Volcker Rule, a controversial measure designed to prohibit banks from proprietary trading, or making investments with their own dollars rather than their customers’, that was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
