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Hillary Hits Bush Attempt to Undermine Women’s Rights

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 [...]

McCain Fumbles Again and Planned Parenthood Strikes Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivTm-VmfXg

Honestly this needs no comment beyond…gawd, John…get a grip.

Obama, Religion and The Race

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 [...]

Must Read of the Day: Stop the new FISA

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 [...]

Hillary Clinton on The FISA Amendments Act of 2008

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 [...]

And So It Continues…

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 [...]

Demand Equality

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 [...]

On A 4th of July, The Declaration of Independence

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 [...]

Senator Dianne Feinstein On the Supreme Court’s Ruling Overturning the DC Handgun Ban

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 [...]

Pennsylvania Politics: Resolved to Perpetuate Bigotry

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 [...]

Wedding Bells Ring in California

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 [...]

The Non-Security of Retirement and One Idea

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 [...]