Posts tagged america
David Gans: Rand Paul and Congressional Power to Secure Civil Rights
Jun 14th
Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul created a firestorm recently by stating that he opposed the portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibit racial discrimination by private businesses providing public accommodations. The outrage following his comments quickly forced Paul to backtrack at least somewhat, though he has still not said, unequivocally, that he supports federal laws banning discrimination by privately-owned establishments and believes these laws are constitutional.
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Loading ...Bob Wise: How Cutting Teen Dropout Rates Could Stimulate the Economy
Jun 14th
Recently, President Obama had this to say: “This is a problem we cannot afford to accept and we cannot afford to ignore. The stakes are too high — for our children, for our economy, and for our country.” Was he talking about defense or national security?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Beyond Left and Right: Scarborough Says Obama’s BP Speech Should Echo JFK’s On Space Race (VIDEO)
Jun 14th
President Obama should use his upcoming address about the BP oil spill as a chance to declare a new energy policy that will allow America to lead, argues Joe Scarborough. The “Morning Joe” host advised the president to take advantage of the new decade and to echo President John F
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sally Kohn: The 17th Amendment is Good for America
Jun 14th
There’s a movement afoot to repeal the 17th Amendment of the United States Constitution which allows for the two US Senators from each state to be “elected by the people thereof.” As proof that the Tea Party wants to infringe on your democracy and make it easier for elite corporate interests to control Washington, they want to take away our vote and allow state legislators to secretly appoint Senators through back-room deals. So apart from the obvious contradictions of claiming to be a populist, patriotic movement while attacking the popular vote and the democratic traditions of our nation, why else is repealing the 17th Amendment a bad idea ? One of the central themes of the Tea Party is the idea of returning to and honoring our Founding Father’s intent.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Eric Margolis: "Dr. Death Says The U.S. Is Really, Really Sick."
Jun 14th
World leaders seem to spend much of their time these days jetting from one conference to another. Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just arrived here for a summit with Turkey’s increasing influential prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christine Pelosi: What’s at Stake in the Golden State? Corporate Cash vs. Progressive Populism
Jun 13th
California voters face a clash between corporate cash vs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Daniel Cubias: Death at the Border: Bringing out the Worst in the Immigration Debate
Jun 13th
In a recent post, I wrote about how violent crime is down in states that border Mexico. This is true despite the repeated fear-mongering of right-wingers, who insist that millions of illegal immigrants are swarming American cities to murder, rape, and desecrate at will. As it turns out, however, this week offered a spectacularly bloody example of violence along the border
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sharon Waxman: Lunch With Queen Noor: Turkey and Israel Need to "Repair Relations"
Jun 13th
The woman who once ruled Jordan with King Hussein is poised, dressed impeccably in a summer-white suit and speaks calmly about the nuclear threat facing her region, and the world. Nuclear materials are “poorly guarded in unstable regions,” she told WaxWord at a private lunch in Beverly Hills on Friday
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Joss Garman: The View From Britain: ‘It’s Not Us, It’s You’
Jun 12th
As the oil spill grows to match the size of England’s green and pleasant land, there are signs that the famous British ‘stiff upper lip’ is starting to quiver. Writing in Britain’s right wing Daily Telegraph newspaper Thursday morning, the commentator Damian Reece devised an ingenious equation to justify his assertion that the slick isn’t as bad as you soft-headed Americans would have us believe. “If you take the 1,356 total dead or alive creatures collected…then BP shareholders are currently paying £36.6m per animal based on the fall in the company’s value.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [127] — Letting A Crisis Go To Waste
Jun 12th
President Barack Obama’s administration was supposed to follow a basic premise: never let a crisis go to waste. That was according to one of his own advisors, shortly after Obama took office.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven Weber: The Zeal Thing
Jun 11th
If the right wing has succeeded in doing anything (as certainly many of its loudly brayed sentiments have proved as revolting as they are socially untenable) it is the destruction of the office of President of the Unites States as a potent leader. So degraded has the office become through the right wing’s subversion, that it, along with most of the other aspects of a functioning federal government, cannot be mentioned without an attendant sneer. Carny trash invoke more sympathetic responses.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Winship: The Supreme Court Says No to the People – Again
Jun 11th
At a dinner party, an ever-so-proper aristocrat who had been at the British evacuation of Dunkirk, sixty years ago, remained tightlipped despite intense questioning from the other guests about what he had seen there.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Social Security Number: What’s Up With This Latest Birther Conspiracy?
Jun 11th
So the new new thing in Birtherism — the hot conspiracy for interplanetary peyote-monkeys — involves the complaint that President Barack Obama has a “Connecticut Social Security Number” — which seems pretty pointless, unless I’ve been overlooking that section of the Constitution that renders people with such Social Security numbers ineligible to serve as President of the United States. This whole matter came up in a White House briefing after Birther White House Correspondent Les Kinsolving peppered Robert Gibbs with questions about the matter that were raised by interplanetary peyote-monkey digest WorldNetDaily: [WATCH] So, this matter is pretty easily dispensed with
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This Is What Senate Dithering Looks Like
Jun 11th
The Senate is currently muddling through the process of amending and approving urgent legislation to reauthorize several domestic aid programs — including extended unemployment benefits — that expired on June 1 after the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess. The Senate will not get the legislation done until next week at the earliest. To the hundreds of thousands of people who are missing unemployment checks , the Senate’s slowness can be maddening
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rep. Mike Honda: AZ Law: Unconstitutional, Unsound, Ineffective and Un-American
Jun 11th
Much has been said about Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, allowing state law enforcement officials to stop, question, detain and report individuals based on suspicion of undocumented status.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Denise Bowyer: Sand Bags, Oil Spills and Wall Street
Jun 10th
The recent oil spill and the past financial collapse both show why protective barriers are important. Sand bags in hand, thousands of National Guard have been activated to buttress our coast line against the dark plume caused by Big Oil BP
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