Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Former Gov. Don Siegelman says his "heart is broken" for his supporters | al.com -The court declined separate requests from Siegelman and co-defendant Richard Scrushy to review their 2006 convictions in a bribery case. Prosecutors alleged Scrushy bought a seat on a state health board by arranging $500,000 in donations to Siegelman's 1999 campaign to persuade voters to establish a state lottery. The petition for Supreme Court review was one of Siegelman's final appeal avenues to try to avoid being sent back to federal prison to finish his sentence.
We don't teach hate, says church where anti-homosexual song filmed – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs - The video, which surfaced on YouTube last week, shows a child in front of the congregation, singing "I know that God is right, and somebody's wrong... ain't no homo going to make it to heaven." The congregation erupts in applause at those lines, which the unidentified boy repeats as the pastor looks on. At another point in the video a voice is heard shouting,"That’s my boy." - In the first Sunday service since the video surfaced, congregants arrived to the church as protesters jeered them over the video.
Monday, June 04, 2012
Women's salaries plateau at age 39 while men enjoy raises for a DECADE more | Mail Online - The gender pay gap is real and more unequal than ever according to new statistics. PayScale.com, an online compensation data company, polled 1.6million people to find that women make less than men from their first jobs and continue to pull in lower salaries until they retire. Adding insult to injury, the margin between male and female workers only grows the more experience they have, until women make nearly $30,000 less than their counterparts.
Mike Vaccaro: At his loneliest, Santana was surrounded on the mound - NYPOST.com - It can be the loneliest place in sports, the pitcher’s mound. Just not now. Just not at 9:48 p.m. on the first of June, at the end of the 8,020th game in the history of the New York Mets.Now, Johan Santana is peering in at a St. Louis Cardinals hitter named David Freese — and all Freese has on his résumé is a World Series MVP — and the count is 3-and-2, and there are 27,069 people inside Citi Field who are on their feet and millions of invisible fans scattered elsewhere holding their breath. The score is 8-0, but that became irrelevant a long time ago.
Why California Booted the GOP - and Other States Will Too | Chris Thompson | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Two decades of immigration and changing demographics have steadily eroded the Republican base in the Golden State. But rather than adapt to this new reality, the state party lurched deep into the far-right swamplands of American politics. As the state grew more socially liberal, the last of the Republicans doubled down on conservatism, and sank into irrelevancy. - But this is no local story. What happened in California is just beginning to happen all over the country. The GOP’s most reliable supporters are increasingly crammed into the South and the Midwest, energized by an ever more embattled sense of grievance and cultural alienation, while the rest of the country becomes younger, more multicultural, and more socially liberal. This trend is only going to accelerate, and unless Mitt Romney and his colleagues come to their senses and find a way to reverse it, the GOP is looking at a generation in the electoral wilderness. - And Republicans will have done it to themselves. Just like they did in California. - From the late 1960s through the ‘80s, California was a Republican paradise.
Braves select Lucas Sims of Brookwood High School in first round of Draft | Braves.com - Mark Bowman - Four days before retiring John Smoltz's number, the Braves selected a local pitcher who grew up idolizing Smoltz. The club took suburban Atlanta's Lucas Sims with its first-round selection in this year's First-Year Player Draft, 21st overall. The 18-year-old product of Gwinnett County's Brookwood High School possesses a fastball that has touched 94 mph and a hard curveball.
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