With a new poll may may have women once again moving toward Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the Senate’s Democratic majority leader is reminding female voters that the GOP hasn’t ended its “war on women.” Although President Obama had opened up a huge 19-point advantage among women just weeks ago in the midst of the debates over birth control and other women’s issues, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that gap has shrunk to just 7 percent. The “war on...
Language is not merely a tool; it is THE tool of tools. It is the essential ingredient that allows us to pass on knowledge, experience. It is the basis of all the collective knowledge that creates this magical civilization; that lights our homes and warms our feet, that fills our bellies and softens our mattress. There are not words to describe just how incredibly important language is; I won't try.
The Supreme Court has (predictably) expanded police powers broadly, ruling broadly in a case involving strip searches and jail visits, to expand all police's rights to strip searches (including cavity searches) of anyone for just about any violation -- including, as Justice Breyer notes in his dissent, a traffic offense:...
The controversy over Trayvon Martin’s death continues as his father Tracy Martin, described “the police version of events in a meeting Wednesday with Washington Post reporters and editors,” and he told them “he did not believe the official account, which was conveyed to him two days after his 17-year-old son was killed Feb. 26.” From his new Wrecking Ball tour, Bruce Springsteen is performing an updated version of “American Skin (41 Shots)”. “This is for Trayvon,” Springsteen said last night...
Kerry swipes Romney again today over Iran foreign policy… I have little interest in inserting myself, as a former nominee of my party, into this presidential campaign season. But as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has a vital role in issues of national security, I feel compelled to respond to the ways that, in pursuit of the Republican nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has put himself front and center in debates that have serious...
A group of progressive lawmakers plan on Wednesday to call on an obscure-but-powerful federal housing official to help struggling homeowners — or resign instead. Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including CPC co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), will join underwater homeowners from California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts and Washington State to demand that Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward DeMarco commit to large-scale principal reduction for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages or get out of the way for...
Iran has been the hot topic of the day with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney beating the Iran war drum with an OP/ED today titled: “How I would check Iran’s nuclear ambition“. Note Romney’s closing statement in which he beats the drum harder… My foreign policy plan to avert this catastrophe is plain: Either the ayatollahs will get the message, or they will learn some very painful lessons about the meaning of American resolve. Senator John Kerry, Chairman of...
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