The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced a national call to action on ENDA. The call came after the Human Rights Campaign confirmed the Committee on Education and Labor will vote on Wednesday, November 18,...
A town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts held by Congressman Barney Frank turned combative when the participants got angry over the proposed overhaul of the nation's healthcare. There were both supporters...
created by Blaine Metzgar | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 387 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
The 2010 Census in the United States will count gay married couples for the first time in US history. Recent speculation that the White House would begin counting gay married couples in the 2010 census were confirmed Thursday, June 25, though a press release was not issued....
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This is the kind of story that needs a lot of attention to detail. Executive compensation has been described as solely a question of "supply and demand", yet top executives in Japan or Europe receive far...
Congressman Barney Frank walked out during an interview with CNBC. Frank was on the business news network to discuss a House Financial Services committee hearing about executive pay, and he didn't care for the...
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While America slept on Wednesday April 25 we woke up to find headlines about how Michelle Obama likes to sneak out and eat at fun restaurants. Not so well covered by the media was the passage of the Hate Crimes bill re-introduced and passed in committee by John Conyers....
opinion by lakeall | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 1013 views | 10 recommendations | 12 comments
Many Americans find it difficult to place their trust in President Barack Obama. Why? Because, by any definition*, he is a socialist intent upon forcing socialism on the people of the United States. Don't believe it? Then consider three definitions of "socialism," courtesy...
America expected, or hoped for, a new administration that would set new standards in leadership, ethics, and diligence over the government of the country. Instead there is growing unease as the nation increasingly realizes that the lack of competence demonstrated by its new...
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of...
opinion by RoryKearney | 41 wks ago | updated 41 wks ago 1060 views | 24 recommendations | 0 comments
“I’ll make this quick,” the businessman said, with two other witnesses present. “I have a message for you from Russia. The message is, ‘We are about to kill you. We are about to kill you.’ Patrick, they are going to kill you. If you do not stop this crusade, they...
opinion by RoryKearney | 46 wks ago | updated 46 wks ago 988 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
There has been much anticipation as to whether the second half of the $700 billion bailout fund would be released or not. The Obama administration is looking forward to its first legislative triumph if ever the...
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Despite two recent trips to Washington, D.C. — first by private jet, then by electric vehicle — Big Three executives seem incapable of turning around the no-longer-profitable domestic automobile industry in the face of stiff competition from foreign manufacturers. ...
Naomi Klein, author of the best-selling "Shock Doctrine" about capitalist exploitation of disaster for profit, comments on the Wall Street Bailout, the Federal Reserve extending $2 trillion in emergency loans without disclosing recipients or collateral, the Treasury's illegal...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 144 views | 5 recommendations | 4 comments
The radical socialists have stolen our retirement money, they have stolen the values of our homes, they have ruined and closed our banks and stolen the value of our vote, and, now, the polls say, they will...
opinion by joellerose | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 202 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
If I thought I was angry about the housing and mortgage crisis before, an article in Sunday’s Providence Journal about many actual cases of mortgage fraud in Rhode Island has escalated my anger to a level...
opinion by joellerose | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 355 views | 14 recommendations | 19 comments