April 2012
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“For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands. An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes.”
—Nicholas Kristof (via think-progress)
10 companies that dropped ALEC this week
- Coca-Cola
- PepsiCo
- Kraft
- Intuit
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Wendy’s
- Mars, Inc. (candy company)
- Arizona Public Service
- Reed Elsevier (a personal information provider of services such as Lexis-Nexis
- American Traffic Solutions
Why is ALEC losing donors? More at ThinkProgress
“Governor Romney calls the President out of touch. Hey, how many of y’all have a Swiss bank account?”
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VP Biden in New Hampshire today (via barackobama)
