Lobbying coalition deserves more scrutiny
Legislators on both sides of aisle blindly support legislation written by ALEC
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Legislators on both sides of aisle blindly support legislation written by ALEC
Lack of context confuses statement's true message
DeChristopher leaves isolation after outcry
Obama, Democratic Party bow to pressure coming from right
Republicans could lose partisan battle over domestic violence bill's renewal
Republicans show ignorance, insensitivity on issues of reproductive, women's health
Agents push suspects toward acts of terror
Giving in to Catholic church's demands leads to bad politics
Safety net comments display ignorance of growing social inequalities
Free market principles cannot support projects lacking profit incentive
Health employees could safely refuse services
Now that Rick Santorum is being taken seriously by the media, contraception is suddenly a part of our national political conversation. The last real mention of it was in 1965, when the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that banning contraception violated the right to privacy. In Saturday's debate, Mitt Romney brushed the issue aside as irrelevant, because "no state wants to" ban contraception. That may be true, but it doesn't mean the whole issue is moot. Current law does not treat all forms of contraception equally, and the policy of the current administration severely restricts access to one form in particular.
Extreme income inequality needs to be addressed Let's breathe a sigh of relief: The so-called "supercommittee" has failed. Last week, the deadline for the committee to propose spending cuts, with an eye toward deficit reduction, came and went.
When members of one party in a staring contest have to endure cold, rain and time off from their regular lives, you’d normally expect that party to lose — especially if members of the other party need only sit in their comfortable offices and watch.
The most unsettling moment came when the candidates were asked about torture and "enhanced interrogation techniques," and only two (Jon Huntsman and Rep. Ron Paul) were willing to repudiate the torture of detainees.Herman Cain refused to call waterboarding torture, saying he would allow the technique to be used. Rep. Michele Bachmann falsely claimed waterboarding was "effective" when used under former President George W. Bush and suggested President Barack Obama has "decided we want to lose in the War on Terror." She accused Obama of "allowing the ACLU to run the CIA," claiming, "when we interdict a terrorist on the battlefield, we have no jail for them."
Environmental issues, such as using tar sands for oil, need more concern
Rick Perry came to town last week, promoting his newly-announced 20 percent flat tax plan.
Much has been written about how the purpose of Occupy Wall Street is unclear, or even nonexistent. It helps, when trying to understand a movement that is leaderless and spontaneous, to look at the historical moment that produced it. Even without bothering to apply a dialectic, we plainly see a path through 30 years of deregulation, to excesses in the financial industry, to the economic collapse of 2008, through the Great Recession — which persists for most of us, though Wall Street has rebounded with hardly a scratch — and finally to anger and protest on the streets. There is something happening here, and what it is should be perfectly clear. But there may be something even more important happening. For a moment, forget what the demonstrators are trying to tell us. Stop listening, and look. They're trying to show us something: democracy in action.