- Act would boost employment now for the many who need it, eliminate residual...
- The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely ...
- Washington is descending into another silly season. Let’s end this divers...
- "Ewww. Don't do it, Patrick. Don't do it. Dogs pee here." A woman was giv...
- The Pentagon wants Congress to shift $9.6 billion of this year’s Defense ...
- What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and s...
- The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat op...
- One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brow...
- After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including t...
- Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have...
- They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, so...
- Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a libera...
- Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party...
- The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell gam...
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- The student loan burden is reaching crisis proportions. Young Americans are...
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- A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the atta...
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- My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was f...
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Appeal to Action: Appalachian Leaders Launch Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Now Campaign
Written by Jeff Biggers | Huffington Post
"Living in a mountaintop mining area was a bigger risk for birth defects than smoking." -- Dr. Michael Hendryx, West Virginia University
Hailing a shocking new study on birth defects related to mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia as a historic shift and emergency clarion call in the long-time campaign to abolish the devastating strip-mining practice,
Kucinich, 12 Members of Congress Introduce Legislation to Protect Health in Coal Mining Communities
Written by Press Release Congressman Dennis J. KucinichDennis
Occupy Protesters' Rights Must Be Protected, U.N. Says; U.S. Says Nothing
Written by Dan Froomkin | Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Federal officials have yet to respond to two United Nations human rights envoys who formally requested that the U.S. government protect Occupy protesters against excessive force by law enforcement officials.
Resolve to Overturn 'Citizens United' Spreads Through the States
Written by Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation
Writing for the majority in the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy argued that independent expenditures by corporations “do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.”
Paul Ryan (and Mitt Romney) Versus the Nuns
Written by John Nichols | The Nation
Paul Ryan has made it clear enough that he’s interested in joining Mitt Romney’s 2012 Republican ticket.
Of course, Ryan says only that he would “consider” the vice presidency.
But those who are schooled in the language of career politicians know that “I’d consider it” translates as “I’d like you to consider me.”
A Red State Rebuke to Religious Fear-Mongering
Written by John Nichols | The Nation
The right-wing messaging machine assembled by Republican stalwarts and their conservative allies to defeat President Obama and the Democrats in 2012 has for more than a year been carefully constructing a campaign to gin up fears that the Obama administration is mounting a war on “religious freedom.”
Health Insurance Fine Print Still Written in Blood
Written by Donna Smith | Common Dreams
With great fanfare this week, the Washington Post reported that regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate provision, insurance giant United Healthcare plans to keep intact key consumer provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
GOP Front Group Suing States To Force Voter Purges
Written by Annie-Rose Strasser | Think Progress
A Tea Party group is suing states to try to purge their voter rolls before November’s election. True the Vote, an arm of the King Street Patriots, has filed a suit against the state of Indiana, alleging that the state has poor “list maintenance” of its voters.
This suit kicks off a series of state-focused attempts by True the Vote, serving as a co-plaintiff with the conservative “watchdog” group Judicial Watch, to limit voter turnout this election season.
NATO’s lost lessons from Libya
Written by Marc Garlasco | Washington Post
Marc Garlasco headed the United Nations Protection of Civilians office in Afghanistan in 2011 and was the U.N. senior military adviser for the Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Libya where he led the investigation into NATO’s actions during the war in Libya.
As the international community assesses the situation in Syria, it’s important to keep in mind what might be expected of NATO.
Obama says he was too busy to campaign in Wisconsin recall election
Written by David Nakamura | The Washington Post
President Obama suggested Monday that he was too busy to campaign in Wisconsin ahead of the recall election that targeted Republican Gov. Scott Walker, whose victory last week has raised questions about whether there are broader implications for the president in the fall.
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