Corporate Rights Trump Women’s Health in Hobby Lobby Ruling

‘This ruling goes out of its way to declare that discrimination against women isn’t discrimination.’ – Lauren McCauley, staff writer at Common Dreams Defenders of women’s health and reproductive freedom are reacting with anger to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Monday

If This is What it Means to be “Conservative” — I’m Proudly a Bleeding Heart Liberal

Clearly, members of the GOP in the House are all about looking for ways to handicap ANY organization tasked with performing regulatory actions that might impede their ideological plans for the future of the United States of Republica.  A case in point

How Politicians Are Using Taxpayer Money To Fund Their Campaign and To Sell Off America’s Public Lands

— by Matt Lee-Ashley, Guest Contributor at ThinkProgress-Climate The recent Cliven Bundy debacle in Nevada put a national spotlight on the long-running, and long-failing, effort by right-wing Western legislators to seize federal public lands and either turn them over to the states or sell

Obama to Issue Executive Order Against LGBTQ Discrimination

Campaigners say White House move ‘will begin to undo one of the last vestiges of legally sanctioned discrimination’ — by Lauren McCauley, staff writer, Common Dreams In what is being hailed as a major victory for LGBTQ rights, the White House confirmed on Monday that

Information Is Powerful Medicine: Understanding Your HIPAA Rights

— by Leon Rodriguez, Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services In December 2013, the Departments of  Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury jointly issued mental health and substance abuse parity rules that, along with the Affordable Care Act, expand mental health and

Food Lobby Colossus Sues Vermont over GMO ‘Right to Know’

Powerful lobbyist groups claim ‘free speech’ as they file suit against law that says consumers should know what’s in their food — by Jon Queally, staff writer Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin last month signed Vermont’s first-in-the-nation GMO labeling bill into law on the

Al Gore: Snowden Revealed Crimes ‘Way More Serious’ Than Any He Committed

Former vice president says NSA overreach poses “a threat to democracy.” – by Andrea Germanos, staff writer Former Vice President Al Gore, who on Tuesday said Edward Snowden performed “an important service” saying that Edward Snowden’s revelations showed the NSA’s “threat to democracy”

Who is Robert Goodman?

In Tuesday’s Primary Election, Robert Goodman won as the Democratic contender opposing Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval in the general election.  He won only because “None of these Candidates” isn’t capable of running, even though receiving nearly 30% of the vote. No one know’s much