Lots of news in the gay marriage front. Yes, in North Carolina, the anti-marriage equality folks won with 61% of the vote. But, remember, in Wisconsin in 2006 the same kind of anti-gay actvists got 59% of the vote. That means in six short years North Carolina has become as...
It is getting harder and harder to find Democratic party politicans who don't support marriage equality for gays and lesbians in the U.S. But there is no guarantee that the Democratic party will have in its' platform this year, a statement in support of marriage equality. In...
Congress’s rating is at an all-time low, the Payroll-Tax Cut Extension has ground to a standstill, and due to some in the media and Republican Party establishment deciding, they want Mitt Romney as their nominee over everyone else, an open “negative smear campaign” led...
For those so inclined and attracted to the unofficially anointed Birther King Donald Trump, those being primarily conservatives and TEA Party types, his intent to host a Republican Party debate for those...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 23 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago 219 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
H.R. 1489 co-sponsor Rep. Tammy Baldwin continues to put her support for Glass-Steagall front and center in her campaign to be the Wisconsin Democratic Party's candidate for Senate next year, as she did in her...
The United States of America was created with three check and balance components meant to allow governing of the country through the representative process. The United States is not a true democracy; it is a...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 43 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 816 views | 15 recommendations | 24 comments
Cue the music, fade in:'Do, do, do ,do, do … wa, wa, wa … do, do, do, do, do … wa, wa, wa … 'Like the showdown in Clint Eastwood's classic film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the TEA Party, wearing...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 43 wks ago | updated 43 wks ago 390 views | 8 recommendations | 13 comments
Before getting down to serious business to craft some form of solution to the looming debt ceiling deadline of August 2, a number of bills will be brought to the floor for symbolic votes in the Republican Party...
created by Karen Hatter | 45 wks ago | updated 45 wks ago 121 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Imagine if you will, waking up in a world in which you believe all that you knew and loved has been turned upside down. In general, it’s a feeling that is borne out, by all the indicators you feel are valid,...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 4 days ago 679 views | 8 recommendations | 26 comments
We think state employees should have the same collective bargaining rights as Federal employees. They have none for Wages or Benefits. In 1978, Democratic President Jimmy Carter, backed by a Democratic Congress,...
created by Albert Milliron | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 784 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
After much uproar and a synchronous outcry from conservatives, the Republican Party and the Right Wing, the Obama administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano, in an act...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 489 views | 14 recommendations | 6 comments
One of my favorite movies is the Dead Poets Society. There's always been pressure put on America's kids to get into "the college of their choice". I, myself, attended a small and very elite private high school...
opinion by Rory Cripps | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 265 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
For two decades going now, we are seeing American Right continuing to claim credit for the breakup of Soviet Union and to equate the American Democrats with Stalinists and their crimes. Not enough has been done to change and to challenge this line, either in America...
As Glenn Beck often displays what could be characterized as an inability to self regulate his more inflammatory violent speech and theatrics, like pretending to douse someone with gasoline and set them on fire,...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 510 views | 30 recommendations | 32 comments
Since 1945 and the reelection of FDR, for the third time, to the presidency, the Democrats have been in control of the U.S. House of Representatives almost 4 times longer (3.7 times to be exact) than have the...