Originalist Sin
A brilliant article shows that the Founding Fathers not only supported mandates, they passed laws imposing them. Take that, Scalia! By Eliot Spitzer The five conservative justices on the Supreme...
View ArticleRon Paul Can Win
(Excerpt) We cannot see past a phase change. I don't know if the U.S.A. will have undergone one at the time of the 2012 election, but the necessary conditions for one are all in place, as far as I can...
View ArticleU.S. Troops to Stay In Afghanistan For 10 More years?
Ben takes a look at a new agreement between the United States and Afghanistan to keep U.S. troops and U.S. money flowing into the country for 10 years after the "withdrawal" in 2014...
View ArticleMethodists in Tampa rally against private prison industry
By Eric W. Dolan Monday, April 30, 2012 17:31 EDT The United Methodist Task Force on Immigration held a rally in Tampa over the weekend to protest against the growing private prison system in the...
View ArticleGeorge Carlin - Pro-Life is Anti-Woman!
A whole lot of sense crammed into a 9 minute video! added by: kennymotown 21 comments
View ArticleThe moral and climate crises- will Obama heed the call in this campaign?
By Ted Glick “Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number-one priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and dealing with high gas prices. In that...
View ArticleThe moral and climate crises
By Ted Glick “Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's number-one priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and dealing with high gas prices. In that...
View ArticleBetty White Makes Her Political Pick | Animal Rights
CNN... . April 30th, 2012 08:07 PM ET . Posted by CNN's Ashley Killough . (CNN) - Betty White took her love for animals into the political world with the release of a new campaign ad Monday, backing...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch 'not a fit person' to lead News Corp - MPs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17898029 Rupert Murdoch "is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company", MPs have said. The culture committee questioned...
View ArticleWarren Claims Minority Status as a Cherokee but is Not Eligible to Join Any...
"Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s...
View ArticlePsychiatry’s bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good
"In our increasingly psychiatrized world, the first course is often to classify anything but routine happiness as a mental disorder, assume it is based on a broken brain or a chemical imbalance, and...
View ArticleSo long, Newt! 10 things we’ll miss now that Newt is gone
By Leslie Hart and Paula Neudorf / current.com As Newt Gingrich prepares to bow out of the race for the Republican nomination, we paused to reflect on what we'll miss most about his candidacy. 1....
View ArticleRon Paul Keeps Winning as Supporters Prepare For a Battle With GOP Old Guard
Four years ago, Nevada State GOP insiders so disliked Ron Paul supporters that they actually walked out of the state convention and turned off the lights behind them. In a windowless assembly room...
View Article‘You Know You’re a Liberal If…
1.You can discern the geographic distance between Kenya and Hawaii. 2.Bernie Sanders is one of your favorite senators. 3.You’re seriously considering dropping Verizon and switching to Credo Mobile....
View ArticleWhy didn't Obama mention TAPI pipeline completion in 2014 in his speech?
From 2011: KABUL: Afghan lawmakers on Saturday approved the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas agreement, Afghan television ToloNews reported. The Afghan parliament’s International...
View ArticleRomney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Forced to Resign by Conservatives
Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich to drop out of Republican presidential race
Newt Gingrich plans to formally drop out of the Republican presidential race on Wednesday, senior sources told Fox News. The campaign earlier had been expected to make the exit official on Tuesday,...
View ArticleRon Paul scores wins in Lousiana, and Washington state
While most of the mainstream ignores that it is happening, Maddow covers it albeit condescendingly. I love how when Obama won with the same strategy in 2008, he was unconventional, now that Ron Paul...
View ArticleFirst evaluation of the Clean Water Act effects on coastal waters reveals...
Levels of copper, cadmium, lead and other metals in Southern California's coastal waters have plummeted over the past four decades, according to new research from USC. Samples taken off the coast...
View ArticleStephanie Cutter: Get the facts on Mitt Romney, Big Oil, and the Koch Brothers
Campaign Manager Ms. Cutter says to "share" this so I am - hope you enjoy and it helps when you see inaccuracies on Facebook, etc. http://www.democraticunderground.com/101725784 "I agree with...
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