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31 March 2010

Republican hypocrisy over recess appointments

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Republicans are upset over President Obama's decision to make some recess appointments to circumvent the Republicans' obstructionis...
30 March 2010

Fred Phelps & his Westboro crew to picket Temple U on April 1

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When I first learned of "Reverend" Fred Phelps and his Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, I thought that their website, godhat...
29 March 2010

Sarah Barracuda flirts with violence

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On March 23, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tweeted to her followers the following message: Commonsense Conservatives ...
26 March 2010

In death row case, Supreme Court came through but Texas remains guilty

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On March 24, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner. The stay will allow the Court more ...
25 March 2010

Earth Hour this Saturday (March 27)!

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Did you participate in Earth Hour last year? I did, and the vibes felt great. And now we'll have another opportunity this Saturday. On M...
24 March 2010

Hey Boehner, here's what really ruins the country

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My fellow Americans, the sky is falling! And it's all because the health care reform bill is now the law of the land . Last weekend, you...
23 March 2010

The far-right fringe: Armed, bigoted, and dangerous

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Things have gotten really ugly in the tea party world. It was scary enough when some people showed up at town hall meetings last summer with...
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22 March 2010

Health care and the new Obama

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Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill that was previously passed by the Senate. It will now go t...
19 March 2010

Health care by the (alarming) numbers

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This Sunday, the U.S. House of Representatives will likely be voting on the health care bill. The Republicans keep claiming that health care...
18 March 2010

Will Texas execute an innocent man next week?

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Imagine, for a minute, that you are sitting on Texas Death Row for a murder you say you did not commit. There is DNA evidence that might exo...
17 March 2010

Pennsylvania state bigotry bill dies in committee

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Good news from Harrisburg: Yesterday, the Pennsylvania State Senate Judiciary Committee voted to table SB 707, the so-called "Marriag...
16 March 2010

In memory of Rachel Corrie

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Today, March 16, 2010, marks the seventh anniversary of the death in Gaza of American student and peace activist Rachel Corrie . This brave ...
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15 March 2010

Jihad blondes prove racial profiling a waste of time

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We recently learned that a Philadelphia area woman who had dubbed herself " Jihad Jane " was indicted on charges of helping Islami...
12 March 2010

Good riddance to the Hummer

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General Motors recently decided to discontinue production of the rude, hulking, gas-guzzling monstrosity called the Hummer. Now all those s...
11 March 2010

The Dems must create jobs -- or else

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Obama has been president for more than a year now. Still, the official unemployment rate continues to hover at around 10% , with the real r...
10 March 2010

Did child labor build your iPod?

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Technology giant Apple recently admitted that some of its suppliers used child labor. Other labor violations were also discovered during sup...
09 March 2010

The American people voted for health care reform

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Yesterday, President Obama came to the Philadelphia suburbs to promote health care reform. He challenged his Republican critics as follows, ...
08 March 2010

On International Women's Day, call for sponsorship and passage of I-VAWA

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Today, March 8, is International Women's Day . As UN Secretary General Ban K-moon noted last November , "Violence against women and...
05 March 2010

Republicans just voted against tax cuts

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This is how contrary the Republicans in Congress have become: Yesterday, most of them in the House voted against a bill that would give tax...
04 March 2010

Stars sell their souls to Polanski

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Movie director and convicted sex offender Roman Polanski just completed a new film, The Ghost Writer . It is currently in limited release in...
03 March 2010

Seattle blogger launches gay engagement initiative

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A same-sex couple in the state of Washington recently placed their engagement announcement in their local newspaper, The Kitsap Sun . The an...
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02 March 2010

How to help the earthquake victims in Chile

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It wasn't very long ago that many of us contributed whatever dollars we could to help the earthquake victims in Haiti. Now it's tim...
01 March 2010

The truth about tort reform

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The Republicans seem to think that tort reform is what's needed to improve our health care system. To the Fox News audience, it might s...
26 February 2010

George W. Bush as motivational speaker

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After hearing last year that George W. Bush was going to embark on a career as a motivational speaker , all the predictable jokes and commen...
25 February 2010

Amnesty Intl USA to honor Howard Zinn at annual meeting

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As you may have heard, the great historian and writer Howard Zinn died on January 27th of an apparent heart attack. He will be missed. Mean...
24 February 2010

Tell Congress to condemn anti-gay legislation in Uganda

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If you tune in regularly to The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC or other progressive media, you may have heard about the "kill the gays...
23 February 2010

1000th U.S. troop has died in Afghan war. Vigils are being organized.

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We've reached a very sad milestone in the war in Afghanistan: 1,000 U.S. troops have now been killed in that conflict. To mark this tra...
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22 February 2010

Santorum continues bashing gays in the military while ignoring a real threat

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Even though we the people of Pennsylvania finally voted ultra-conservative Republican Rick Santorum out of the U.S. Senate in 2006 in favor ...
19 February 2010

The IRS plane crash and the color of terrorism

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When I first heard the news on Thursday that a plane had crashed into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, a person standing nearby speculated...
18 February 2010

Texas gives Skinner another month to live - and fight for his innocence

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We got good news yesterday from Texas Death Row: Hank Skinner , who was scheduled to be executed next week, now has another month to fight t...