This, something pretty much every liberal the last few decades has proposed, will be hailed as courage: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan called for ending oil subsidies Thursday, further complicating Republican efforts to stay on message about rising gas prices. The Wisconsin Republican told constituents at a Waterford, Wis., town hall meeting that he …
Archives for April 2011
Prisoners
From Britain’s The Independent, 27 April 2011, “US doctors ‘hid signs of torture’ at Guantanamo“: US government doctors who cared for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay deliberately concealed or ignored evidence that their patients were being tortured, the first official study of its kind has found. __ A detailed review of the medical records and …
Heartbroken at the Suffocating Racism and Outraged at the Apologists
This. Of yesterday’s events — Obama’s release of his long-form birth certificate and Trump’s gloating response — Baratunde Thurston (Jack Turner) of Jack & Jill Politics writes: It was during my viewing of this video [Trump’s remarks in New Hampshire] that I began to cry. I thought of my ancestors, both direct and collective, who …
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Not quite the same
I do think that the mainstreaming of birtherism represents a new low in American political discourse, and I do think birtherism is borne out of racism. I agree that the attacks on Clinton were just as bad in their own way, and probably more politically damaging: As far as Clinton goes, in fact, calling him …
Second-class citizens deserve second-class ballots
Florida’s brand new voter suppression bill is moving quickly: Tallahassee, FL — A new 151-page version of the Florida House of Representatives’ elections bill HB 1355 surfaced late last night, making a bad elections bill even worse. The League of Women Voters of Florida, along with other voter groups, is still digesting this massive effort …
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What’s Up in Massachusetts?
Reader P sent me this link: House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns.[…] “It’s pretty stunning,’’ said Robert J. Haynes, president of the …
While We’re Strolling Down Memory Lane
Remember when a guy who wasn’t born in America was running for President? During the 2008 campaign, questions about John McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone on a U.S. military base prompted some to ask whether McCain was eligible to be president, since the Constitution stipulates that anyone not born in the United States …