Last month, a Georgetown law student named Sandra Fluke testified before Congress, offering support for portions of President Obama’s healthcare law that would mandate coverage of contraception by private insurance plans. In the wake of her testimony, Ms. Fluke was subjected to a host of vile slurs, most notably by radio commentator Rush Limbaugh. It [...]
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While a new year is upon us and unemployment is down to its lowest level in recent memory, there is reason for quiet optimism in 2012. You’ll forgive me if I remain skeptical. The global economy for one still faces enormous uncertainty. In Europe we see countries teetering on the brink of collapse brought on [...]
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On Monday morning, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus will hold a press conference to urge President Obama to increase the debt ceiling without the authorization of Congress, and without any spending cuts attached. A growing number of Progressives, including Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Sen. John Kerry (D- Mass.), and Former [...]
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This country was created by a Great Compromise. Our founding fathers worked together for the best interests of the American people and settled their differences through compromise. If problems arose, they were addressed by everyone. The key word is compromise. Compromise, compromise, compromise. Enter Wisconsin. You might support Labor Unions, or you might oppose them, [...]
Continue Reading →How would you feel if you were sitting next to someone with a gun in a restaurant? How about on a college campus? Well in Arizona, among other states, you just might have to sit next to that person. I’m hoping to go to college next fall, and the thought is a little unnerving to [...]
Continue Reading →Protecting the Right to Choose is as important a fight as protecting Health Care Reform or the Environmental Protection Agency. Woman abuser and botched abortion performer Kermit Gosnell is more than just a baby-killer, far more.
Continue Reading →“We have got to give tax breaks to billionaires” – Bernie Sanders in a mocking tone [1] I was watching a part of Bernie Sanders’ 8 hour filibuster the other day when this quote struck me for a number of reasons, the most obvious being “why does a billionaire need a tax break?” — an [...]
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