Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton took on the Bush Administration’s plan to define birth control as abortion and undermine women’s rights, today in a press conference and the blogosphere. Here’s a clip from the press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA56Oz-t_rQ
In a blog post cross posted on the HuffPo and RhRealityCheck, Clinton said:
The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivTm-VmfXg
Honestly this needs no comment beyond…gawd, John…get a grip.
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Barack Obama, has made his personal religious beliefs one of the central parts of his campaign. This has brought praise from many and condemnation from some. The evangelical Right, in the person of James Dobson, is certainly objecting saying that Senator Obama has ‘distorted’ The New Testament and Christianity.
Here [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The must read of the day today is this piece by Chris Hedges, in the L.A. Times: Stop the new FISA:
If the sweeping surveillance law signed by President Bush on Thursday — giving the U.S. government nearly unchecked authority to eavesdrop on the phone calls and e-mails of innocent Americans — is allowed to stand, we [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton did not disappoint liberals on today’s FISA vote, but Barack Obama certainly did. I can’t even begin to imagine why Obama caved on this issue as boldly as he has but it’s beyond disappointing, especially for those of us who had worked so hard to get Hillary nominated. While Barack Obama voted “yes” on [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The latest right wing attack on Obama is on his abortion stance. CBN reports:
The Christian Defense Coalition, who are known to shock folks from time to time, have come up with a new campaign called: “Barack Obama: The Abortion President”. They are going to make clear that Obama wants taxpayers to foot the bill on [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
For all the women, minorities and aged people in this country still facing inequality or downright sexism, racism or age discrimination it’s time for all of us because it’s time for all people to demand equality.
Barack Obama faces outright racism and admits it’s part of his fight. Hillary Clinton faced sexism, most obviously in broadcast [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
On a day 232 years ago some very courageous men announced to the world a document of independence. These world changing concepts had never before been put on paper or celebrated publicly.
We celebrate their courage, intelligence and durability because their action was certainly controversial in the colonies. In this document that those colonies are [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As Stuart noted below, today, the Supreme Court declared “that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2008 by Walter Brasch
There should have been absolutely no controversy in a resolution presented in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives this past week.
Speaker Dennis O’Brien, a Republican from Philadelphia, wanted to honor the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which was holding its 60th annual national convention in Harrisburg. These resolutions are routine and almost always noncontroversial. The resolution pointed out [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Wedding bells were ringing in California today as hundreds of gay and lesbian couples ties the knot, “giving a human face to a landmark court decision and a powerful opening salvo in what is expected to be a bruising fall campaign here over the issue of same-sex marriage.”
Some weddings actually began in a “handful of [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Unfortunately, we are seeing many people of retirement age wind up in strictly limited living circumstances. While active and socially involved, they live, in any cases, with limitations that can be difficult. Today MSN online offers a simple solution to the person with $12,000 retirement income or less. The article over simplfies a difficult [...]
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