A Billionaire, Some Millionaires, and a No-Show Senator Debate How Best to Block Wage Hikes

A Billionaire, Some Millionaires, and a No-Show Senator Debate How Best to Block Wage Hikes   Fast-food workers were on the streets asking for wage hikes and union rights, but the candidates spoke to the billionaire class.   JOHN NICHOLS

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Almost Half of All American Workers Make Less Than $15 an Hour   Three years after the first #FightFor15 strike, workers nationwide rallied again yesterday for living wages and union rights.   MICHELLE CHEN

Rikers Is Reforming Solitary Confinement—With More Solitary Confinement?   How did Enhanced Supervision Housing units become one of the mayor’s “solutions”?   RAVEN RAKIA

Am I the Only Person Who Thinks Larry David Wasn’t Funny on Trump’s ‘SNL’?   Shouting “Trump’s a racist!” helped inoculate Trump—and SNL—from seeming racist.   LESLIE SAVAN

Ms. Fiorina, What Is Your Favorite Color?   And other questions from the GOP dream debate.   TOM TOMORROW

Why Immigration Activists Are Celebrating Their Loss in Federal Court   An appeals court blocked President Obama’s deportation relief program, setting the stage for a Supreme Court showdown over executive authority.   JULIANNE HING

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These 12 gorgeous photos of couples celebrate the magic of love across race, gender, age, and size.

These 12 gorgeous photos of couples celebrate the magic of love across race, gender, age, and size.

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Can one song change the world? Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Fergie, and others are finding out.

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Cheerios Just Did Something Annoying

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Cheerios Just Did Something Annoying Last year, General Mills debuted a souped-up version of an old standard: Cheerios Protein. "I think the protein trend is real. I think it started with [the Atkins diet] back in the day, leveled off and now is gaining steam again," a General Mills exec told the Wall Street Journal at the time. But now the Center for Science in the Public Interest has taken a close look at the product's label—and turned up some unsettling information. CSPI claims that Cheerios Protein offers just marginally more protein per equivalent serving than the old product—plus a startling 17 times more sugar. [READ MORE]

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SC JUSTICES MAY BE IMPEACHED IF THEY GO AGAINST SANTIAGO RESOLUTION- KABAYAN ATTY. ROQUE

SC JUSTICES MAY BE IMPEACHED IF THEY GO AGAINST SANTIAGO RESOLUTION- KABAYAN ATTY. ROQUE by harryroque METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES- That was the position of Atty. Harry Roque when asked about possible repercussions of a contrary ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the Senate Resolution against the validity and effectivity of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). image credit : www.rappler.com The EDCA has been signed by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg in April last year, as part of the defense pact between the US and the Philippines. It has been characterized as an executive agreement, which supporters say is valid even without Senate concurrence. Those against it emphasize that in all respects it was a treaty, which required approval of the Senate for it to be valid. Atty. Roque has long been opposing EDCA, and has in fact filed with the Supreme Court to declare it invalid, together with Former Senator Rene Saguisag, Dean Pacifico Agabin, and lawyers Rachel Pastores and Evalyn Ursua. Their group has now found strong political support in the said Senate resolution. “The Santiago resolution reiterated the letter and spirit of the highest law of the land,” Atty. Harry Roque said. “An SC ruling to the contrary may render the Justices liable to impeachment for culpable violation of the Constitution.” Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago proposed said resolution to Senate, with thirteen other Senators concurring: Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Francis Escudero, Teofisto Guingona III, Manuel Lapid, Loren Legarda, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Sergio Osmeña III, Aquilino Pimentel III, Grace Poe, Ralph Recto and Cynthia Villar. Sen. Pia Cayetano, while absent during the vote, signified her support for the resolution. Senate President Franklin Drilon and Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile abstained, while only Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV objected to it. “Even though the SC is the interpreter of the Constitution, it cannot ignore well-defined constitutional powers of the Senate, such as giving concurrence to treaties,” Roque added. Atty. Roque is the former Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies at the UP Law Center, a position he has held for more twelve years. He is also a professor of Constitutional and International Law at the UP College of Law. He gave up his academic tenure to run for the 2016 elections under the party-list KABAYAN. “While the Senate resolution is a political act,” Atty. Roque notes, “so is the act of impeachment. And that is why it is important for the SC Justices to follow the letter of the Constitution, otherwise they may be liable for impeachment.” harryroque | November 11, 2015 at 4:06 am

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