Do any of you remember Ernest Istook? Well, in the ’90s when he was a GOP member of the US House from Olahoma’s 5th district, he wrote an abortion amendment that thankfully failed. HR3, the current GOP-proposed Abortion bill is the equivalent
What’s been going on in Wisconsin is electric, and it’s spreading. In states like Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Tennessee and Indiana, right-wing governors and/or legislators are taking up similar measures to the one in Wisconsin to begin stripping workers of their fundamental collective
Can someone please explain to me how Republicans can profess to “love” American … when they clearly hate Americans? What’s going on in Wisconsin is spreading and it’s come home to roost in our own state. Excuse me, but we need to
On Monday, the President unveiled his fiscal year 2012 budget. It outlines spending proposals totalling $3.73 trillion and claims 1.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years. The proposal contains a five-year freeze on domestic discretionary spending, which the White
House Speaker John Boehner has spent more than a month without doing any legislative work to create jobs. Now, he’s telling middle class workers who might lose their job upon passage of the House Republican budget, “So be it!” That GOP budget
In 1926, black historian Carter G. Woodson proposed the first national Negro History Week. He chose the second week in February as it included birthdays for anti-slavery notables Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It was overwhelmingly accepted by the public, and increased
Of late, we’ve all been hearing how Nevada doesn’t have money for this and Nevada doesn’t have money for that. We all have to tighten our belts and share in the sacrifice. Well, that is, unless you’re a hungry legislator. It appears
Throughout the campaign, we listened to one Republican after another rant about less Government and getting Government out of our lives … and that if elected to Congress, that’s exactly what they’d do. Even more specifically, they didn’t think Government should have
Remember all the furor over the Patriot Act … specifically, three sections of the Patriot Act — The “Library Provision” — that provision that allows some secret court to issue confiscation orders for anything and everything that might be deemed relevant to
With the rules changed to allow pre-filing of proposed legislation, the 120-day session will start with a full trough. 128 Assembly bills have been pre-filed and 125 Senate bills have already been pre-filed. All those bills be introduced in the few days
