Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) “will launch his presidential campaign on July 2, making him the third sitting member of the House to run for the White House in 2012,” USA Today reports. “McCotter will make his bid official in his home state of Michigan.”
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McCotter Will Announce White House Bid
“A normally obscure board in Kansas unanimously approved new regulations Thursday for abortion providers, moving the state closer to becoming the first in the nation without a clinic or doctor’s office performing the procedures,” the AP reports. Mother Jones : “The new law, which takes effect Friday, establishes new standards for abortion providers–standards apparently designed to make compliance difficult. The rules require changes to the size and number of rooms, compel clinics to have additional supplies on hand, and even mandate room temperatures for the facilities. Given that the rules were released less than two weeks before clinics were expected to be in compliance, many providers knew they wouldn’t be able to obtain a license to continue operating.”
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Kansas to Shut Down All Abortion Clinics
A new study from Northeastern University finds that the current economic recovery in the United States “has been unusually skewed in favor of corporate profits and against increased wages for workers,” the New York Times reports. Since the recovery began in June 2009, “corporate profits captured 88 percent of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1 percent” of that growth.
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A Wageless, Profitable Recovery
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “has signaled to White House officials that he’s considering leaving the administration after President Barack Obama reaches an agreement with Congress to raise the national debt limit,” Bloomberg reports. “An exit by Geithner would complete the turnover in Obama’s original economic team.”
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Geithner May Leave After Debt Limit Debate
Larry Sabato just released a nice chart sorting the Republican presidential candidates into three tiers. First : Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Second : Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain and Jon Huntsman. Third : Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Gary Johnson and Buddy Roemer.