by Dave Johnson | Feb 5, 2014 | Blog
On Tuesday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report saying 2 million-plus people who are only working in order to get health care will finally be able to leave those jobs thanks to the Affordable Care Act. This will open up badly needed jobs. The...
by Bill Scher | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/Yn6KEKEQITg?t=1h33m[/fve] Watch Kirk Cameron make the anti-abortion pro-contraception case at the 01:33:00 mark above The number and rate of abortions dropped 13% during the first three years of President Barack Obama's term, concludes a new...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
The State Department released an environmental impact report Friday saying, according to The Washington Post, "the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would be unlikely to alter global greenhouse gas emissions." The report triggered more than 275 protests in towns and...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
For decades, college football players absorbed some pretty cheap shots from their schools and the NCAA. These athletes knew it wasn’t right that universities rescinded academic scholarships and refused to cover medical treatment for players permanently injured in...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Nothing drives conservatives around the bend like a speech by Barack Obama. So, thanks to the president’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, there’s no shortage of wingnuttery this week. A Grimm Encounter The most unhinged moment on the right this week was when...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog
Today, January 30, is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s birthday. In a week of mourning for Pete Seeger, that’s a good time to remember what Pete’s friend Woody Guthrie had to say in song about FDR: “This world was lucky to see him born.” The White House website’s biography of...