President Obama comes out in support of same sex marriage

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...

Urge Democrats to support marriage equality for gays in platform

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...

Attacking fellow Republicans could leave the GOP facing wipe out

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...

Birther King Donald Trump’s Almost Extravaganza

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...

Wisconsin Senate Campaign - Glass Steagall front/center

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 Hijacking of the U.S. Government by the Republican TEA Party

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...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The U.S. Debt Crisis Showdown

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...

Budget Amendment: Very Likely Contrary to the U.S. Constitution

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...

Birtherism: The Antidote/Sedative for the Obama Administration

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,...

State and Federal employees same collective bargaining rights?

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,...

Right Wing Extremist Tendencies: In the 1990s Forward to Today

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...

Race To Nowhere For America's College-Bound Students

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...

American Right, Soviet Union and China: Wrong Lessons for History

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...

Glenn Beck and Elements of the Right Wing

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,...

Political Lesson For American Ideologues Especially Democrats

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...

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