Wrong Restroom?

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Gender neutral signs posted outside bathrooms flushes out debate over transgender toilet access, as the issue spreads nationwide.

The feds are telling schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that are "consistent with their gender identity." This does not wipe out other laws, but since Title IX is seated into federal education funding, the implied threat is to follow the federal guidelines or risk losing those funds.

GOP CIVILITY?

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GOP is grappling with a new reality. Congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill have had to confront an awkward reality. Trump is their presumptive presidential nominee.

The Donald and Paul are playing nice? Could this be the candidate is finally growing up?

Trump And Ryan Call Meeting A 'Very Positive Step Toward Unification' Of GOP http://n.pr/1TAYWet

The GOPs Maddening Trump Conundrum | RealClearPolitics http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/12/the_gops_maddening…

The Roaming Empire?

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GOP conservatives, who we will call Ceasar and Defiant Donald, who we will call Brutus continue their flip flop danceathon. Around and round they go. When the music will stop, nobody knows.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.

US NATIONAL DEBT

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United States' national debt is the amount owed by the federal government of the United States. The measure of the public debt is the value of the outstanding federal securities at a point of time that have been issued by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.

Neither one of the politicians who have announced their candidacy for the nation's top position has been willing to say how they will solve the national debt.

According to Congressional Budget Office projections, a $534 billion deficit for 2016 is $100 billion more than in 2015.

Accentuating Negatives

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Whatever happened on political platforms and talking about issues? Instead, we hear taunts and insults for The White House race.

This camp pain has been vulgar, vile and perhaps we need to sugar coat it a bit, What do Clinton's affairs have to do with the pressing issues facing this country today? Instead of traveling up the information superhighway, politicians have chosen to stay down in the gutter.

Election 2016: Not Donald Trump vs Not Hillary Clinton - http://goo.gl/btqKTJ

Manila, Not Main Street

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A would-be dictator and BS artist has apparently won the presidential elections in The Philippines.

Filipinos are awaiting the official results of presidential elections after tough-talking political, maverick Rodrigo Duterte declared victory Monday.

Duterte, 71, a former Philippines mayor who has drawn comparisons to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, promised his people that he will "do my very best not just in my waking hours but even in my sleep." His main rivals Manuel “Mar” Roxas and Grace Poe have conceded defeat.

WOMEN RULERS

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One thing for sure, times are changing. In a first of its kind, American Society of Civil Engineers is choosing from among two women for President-Elect. And none of these well-qualified engineers had to use the woman's card.
As we know, an engineering ruler is a straight edge designed to measure objects on a construction plan to scale.

It's My Party...

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And I'll Lie if I Want To. This is what the 2016 political climate has been reduced to as we continually learn about flip flops, nasty accusations, and downright lies.

Trump's empty administration http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-administration-trans…

We can’t vote for either one: On world stage, Clinton and Trump present different but serious, dangers http://slnm.us/V7heHVD

Donald Trump breaks the GOP http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-breaks-the-gop-222939

Mother's Day Weekend

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This is Mother's Day in the United States and many other countries. We pay tribute to all, who constantly show unconditional love and kindness. They give us beauty, brains, brawn, and grit. What are some of the many things we also got from our dear moms?

Intelligence, kindness, understanding, emotions and so many for me to list. And whether it's your first Mother's Day, like my daughter Sabrina, who sent us this lovely photo of her first baby and my newest granddaughter Olivia.

2016 Class Kudos

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According to Economic Policy Institute figures, college graduates were hit hard in the Great Recession. While young graduates’ economic prospects have brightened in recent years, they still face elevated unemployment rates and stagnant wages. Many groups including young graduates of color entering the workforce face particularly difficult economic realities.

This report looks at trends in unemployment, underemployment, and wages of young high school and college graduates to paint a picture of the economy facing the Class of 2016.

http://www.epi.org/publication/class-of-2016/