John McCain and GOP Block Disclosure Bill in Act of Hypocrisy Stunning Even for the Keating Five Senator

Share- John McCain and the GOP protect the sleazy, negative campaign ads run by corporations and shady interest groups as  Democrats respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s outrageous Citizens United v. FEC ruling - Few thinking people took Keating Five Senator John McCain seriously as a reformist when he joined Sen. Russ Feingold in co-sponsoring campaign finance reform in the [...]

Here’s How YOU Can Help Save the America YOU Love

When nations face bankruptcy and are unable to rollover their government debt, the first thing to go is often the currency due to hyperinflation but this isn’t the end of the debacle but rather the beginning. The politicians and central bankers first try to shore up their control and hang on to the gravy train for a while longer by confiscating more wealth when possible and allowing the hyperinflation to push taxes to the top brackets. Finally only when the population has lost their savings and property and when government pensions and safety net programs are rendered meaningless by hyperinflation does the last terminal stage take place. Words: 2815

President Obama Signs Extended Unemployment Insurance, GOP Obstruction Defeated

ShareBy Jesse Lee Yesterday, at long last the Senate passed an extension of unemployment insurance, not only the decent thing to do but one of the most effective ways to boost our economy, as Lawrence Summers, Chair of the National Economic Council, explained.  The President  has pressured the partisan minority holding it up relentlessly on behalf [...]

Updated – Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) caving in to super-rich who wrecked the economy

ShareUpdated: See also Andrew Leonard’s A handful of conservative Democrats don’t want to raise taxes on the wealthy. – Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) caving in to super-rich who wrecked this economy. Protecting the multi-millionaires’ tax cuts and shelters – By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fiscally conservative Democrat. Sen Kent Conrad (D-ND), who chairs the U.S. [...]

Updated – Congress approves unemployment extension, 82 percent of House Republicans vote NO

A House vote Thursday is expected to send President Barack Obama a long-sought measure to resume unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed.

GOP Filibustering America, Says President Obama

Share- The President blasts Republicans in the Senate who are blocking unemployment insurance and small business tax breaks to create jobs – even as they push for permanent, massive tax cuts for the richest Americans. –   From the White House: Weekly Address: President Obama Says GOP Senate Leadership Choosing to “Filibuster Our Recovery and Obstruct [...]

U.S. Debt Obligations are Unrecognized, Unmeasured, Unmanaged and Unfunded

When people find themselves in a situation where they feel they don’t have a decent grip on the risks they face, or where a great deal of critical information is hidden from view, emotions can easily overwhelm rational decision-making. Is it so far-fetched to think that a sudden loss of confidence in the United States’ ability to manage its finances could evoke similar fears about just how large and widespread the fallout might be? 1011

Rep. Kirkpatrick Introduces New Bill Pushing Washington to Keep Promises to Veterans on Mental Health Care

ShareWASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, who has been tirelessly fighting for Veterans in rural and Native American communities, today introduced legislation that will help ensure they can access the mental health care they deserve. Her Veterans Mental Health Professionals Oversight Act pushes the federal government to live up to its set standards for providing treatment [...]

BP Associations Could Cost GOP in Great Lakes States

ShareMadison, Wisconsin—This writer has taken Sen. Russ Feingold to task in the past, but now it appears that Feingold’s likely general election opponent, U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson, wants to be the head cheerleader for Big Oil. That’s bad. If this were not bad enough, Johnson wants to open the Great Lakes to Big Oil, a position he [...]

Support Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2010

ShareVia mal contends – The Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2010 would, as Washington Watch reports, “increase, effective as of December 1, 2010, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans.” Opposition is coming from the usual suspects: [...]

My Private Obama

Share“You can’t live half-humanistic, half-fascist.” Perhaps the most perceptive comment I have heard on world politics, in this case a disgusted commenter stating his feelings on Israel a few years back. Robert Kuttner is more or less throwing down the gauntlet on President Obama–expressing the same disgruntlement with Obama’s tendency to maintain the worst of the [...]

GOP Senators Still Blocking Homeless Women Veterans’ Bill

ShareGOP Senate Still Blocking of Homelss Women Veterans’ Bill This outrage bears repeating. Sen. Patti Murray calls bill up for unanimous consent on Senate floor, tells story of veteran who was homeless with her children in Washington state—legislation is blocked by Senate Republicans MURRAY’S HOMELESS WOMEN VETERANS BILL BLOCKED BY SENATE REPUBLICANS (Washington, D.C.) – [...]

HR 5175 — The bill to silence citizens

ShareBy David Morris Congress is currently attempting to ram another bill down our throats that will silence groups (and bloggers) that speak on political matters within 60 days of an election. One of the common interpretations is that the bill will require groups and bloggers to disclose their membership lists if they mention public officials in [...]

Senate GOP Blocks Unemployment Benefits Before Break

Share By: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a bill Wednesday night that would extend unemployment benefits for two million Americans, according to a report in The Hill. The Senate has adjourned for the Fourth of July weekend. The vote failed 58-38, with 60 votes needed [...]

Congressman Adler’s Bill to Fix Broken Veterans’ Appeal Process Receives Congressional Hearing

Share- Congressman Adler’s Bill to Help Hundreds of Veterans Blocked from Appeals Process by Arbitrary, Unfair Deadline Heard Before House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee – Washington, DC – Today, Congressman John Adler’s bill, the Fair Access to Veterans’ Benefits Act, received a hearing before the House Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs [...]

GOP Declares War on Homeless Veterans

ShareAs veteran John Molina writes: “I’m speechless on this one folks. The same party that thumps it’s chest claiming to be patriots. Has no problem sending our young soldiers to near certain death in the Middle East.” But when it comes to taking care of these folks after they return home, the Republicans say we [...]

Plight Of Black Poor Continues To Worsen

Share“The conditions now, in my view, are unquestionably worse in the inner cities,” attorney and civil rights stalwart David Ginsburg told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Education is worse. Housing is worse. Unemployment is worse. We now have a drug problem that we didn’t have in 1967 and 1968. There are millions of handguns. The cities [...]

Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the “War Is Making You Poor” Act

The bill would cut the DoD’s budget and use that money to make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free. Last week, as Congress prepared to pass yet another “emergency” spending bill to cover America’s costly operations in Iraq and Afghanistan — to the tune of $159 billion this time around — Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, introduced a bill that would force the Pentagon to pick up the tab out of its ample regular budget.

Part I: Environmental Exposure Claims and Senate Bill S.3378

ShareSenate bill (S.3378) authorizes health care for individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune and the Atsugi Naval Air Facility.  (WASHINGTON, DC) – Senate bill (S.3378) authorizes health care for individuals exposed to environmental hazards at Camp Lejeune and the Atsugi Naval Air Facility and establishes an advisory board to examine exposures to environmental [...]

The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .

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