Category Archives: Government

‘Miscarriage’ of Justice – VA GOP eyes Mark Obenshain for AG

Posted on Monday, May 20, 2013 by Amanda Sheppard

Virginia GOP this past weekend nominated Sen. Mark Obenshain to replace tea partier Ken Cuccinelli as the state’s attorney general.  If they succeed it will be yet another devastating blow to women’s rights. Obenshain has already tried to pass laws … Continue reading →

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Righty Poutrage Assuaged By Referencing A Dictionary

Posted on Saturday, April 6, 2013 by Ken

President Obama gave a speech about the gun safety measures he (and vast majorities of the American people) want to pass and one of the things he said has been the cause of much furor and consternation from the rightwing maniacs.  While … Continue reading →

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A Glaring Omission In the Plan For Immigration Reform

Posted on Monday, April 1, 2013 by Cindy Rose

First, let’s get the jargon out of the way; immigrants who are living and working here illegally are referred to as “illegals”, undocumented workers”, “out of status”, and “undocumented migrants” to name a few. When immigration hearings began earlier this … Continue reading →

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Limbaugh Complains “We’re Losing The Country”

Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2013 by Ken

Rush Limbaugh believes medical students petitioning against a speech by Ben Carson is a sign that “we’re losing the country“. “In the midst of all this talk about ‘equality,’ folks, in the midst of all this talk about the pursuit … Continue reading →

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The Second Amendment Does Not Trump All Other Rights

Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 by Cindy Rose

It seems that when the country attempts to do something, anything, to combat gun violence, Second Amendment zealots will willingly trample the flag and everyone else’s rights along with it; patriots my ass. There have been threats to shoot lawmakers, … Continue reading →

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Why Do Republicans Hate America So Much?

Posted on Saturday, March 9, 2013 by Ken

In June of 2012 during a congressional hearing on a Republican proposal to cut nearly $17 Billion from scheduled infrastructure projects Peter Defazio, who happens to be my Representative, had a question for the Republicans on the committee:  “Why do you hate the country so … Continue reading →

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Headlines from “The Party of Stupid”

Posted on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Dear Republicans, This is what your elected officials are spending their time on: Not Understanding the Constitution… Again Just a little over a week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit shot down Florida’s mandatory welfare drug … Continue reading →

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Republicans’ Selective Memory Affliction

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by Cindy Rose

Conservatives continue to yap about Benghazi in print and on TV, even dragging Bush era foreign policy dinosaurs Rumsfeld and Cheney into the mix; all of them trying to claim it points to either a “cover-up” or “incompetence”. So I’m … Continue reading →

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Mr. Obama, Tear Down the Private Profit Prisons

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 by Marc Belisle

“…men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.” –Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America In 2007, a teenager in a depressed county of Northeastern Pennsylvania, recently bereft of … Continue reading →

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Republican “Leaders” Need to Put a Stop to This Nonsense

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 by Cindy Rose

The level of disrespect shown this President by conservative lawmakers has long been out of hand, but this latest move by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) should have been stopped by Republican leaders immediately. Stockman has invited Ted Nugent to be … Continue reading →

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