Republicans are forcing votes on a flurry of amendments to the revisions package to the health care bill. The amendments range from relevant to health care to politically motivated. One by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) would outlaw the pregnancy-preventing morning after pill. The other part of the measure would be difficult for any lawmaker to [...]
Conservative hatred over the passage of health care reform has spilled over into direct acts of vandalism against Democratic targets, including the smashing of windows in multiple offices. This follows homophobic and racist slurs yelled at reform advocates.
Reporting the news, or at least trying to, is increasingly becoming a very dangerous line of work. Last year set a new record, with 77 journalists murdered worldwide. The United Nations Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), is raising the alarm in a new report published today, and is calling “for an end to impunity [...]
The people who used inexcusable language in an attempt to demean some of our African-American and gay Members of Congress should be ashamed of their behavior. It shows just how low the right has sunk in its pursuit of ideology over humanity.
It has become clear that the conservatives in America are determined to do everything in their power to derail the movement for change and reform for their corporate masters. Not since the time of Andrew Jackson has this country seen such a partisan attempt to prevent anything from happening in Congress. There are some lessons in the struggle to pass strong health care reform, and these need to be learned very well if our country is ever going to improve.
