Last night Americans opened their hearts and their wallets to help Haitians. It was an unprecedented media blitz of all US major networks and some cable outlets hosted by celebrities, musicians and political figures to raise money in the global telethon called Help For Haiti Now. However, according to relief organizations in Haiti, food, water, [...]
Yesterday, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court overturned a 63 years old law designed to limit the the influence of big corporations on elections. It is a legal coup of some sort, similar in nature to Hitler’s Kristal night. By opening this Pandora’s box, the Supreme Court has just rubber stamped the rise of [...]
The death toll in Haiti will continue to grow as more bodies are recovered from under the rubble in the days and weeks to come.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) joined several Republican and Democratic Members of Congress (a mix of veterans opposed to immigration reform and several freshmen like Chaffetz, see list below) to introduce an immigration-related resolution Thursday. The resolution would be a non-binding but symbolic statement aimed at putting Representatives of both parties on-the-record in support of two propositions:
It might come as a shock to Pat Robertson and other conservative Christian nuts who have recently blamed the quake in Haiti that killed 100,000 on devil worship, but Voodoo is a blend of French Catholicism and African religions. It has also been recognized as a part of Christianity by Pope John Paul II.
