The head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt organizations office Lois Lerner appeared Wednesday at a House Oversight Committee meeting, as she attempted to address the hot button issue of conservative groups like the Tea Party being unfairly singled out by the IRS based on political reasons, even though Lerner would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination almost [...]
Okay, so maybe I’m a little past my child-bearing years – but even so, I care more deeply than ever about a woman’s right to choose, womens’ access, nationally, to safe and affordable abortions, the need for good, solid, accurate information about our health in general and abortions in particular, comprehensive sexual education in our [...]
Monday’s devastating tornado outbreak is now being blamed for at least 51 deaths in Oklahoma according to the Oklahoma City Medical Examiner, including at least seven children who were killed at the Plaza Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was reported by CNN—with the death toll expected to rise as search and rescue responders continue to comb through [...]
Maybe I’m just confused, but what’s the kerfuffle over Floridian Kaitlyn Hunt, who’s been charged with a felony for having a relationship with a 15-year-old girl? Same sex, opposite sex, still statutory, still a crime. It’s Florida, so anti-gay bias isn’t out of the question; and a felony seems to be a little heavy-handed, but on [...]
It’s too early to start the politicizing of the horrific tornado in Oklahoma that leveled Oklahoma City and left, at last count, 37 dead. But it may soon become political, even as our hearts go out to the victims of the storm, and it’s not too early to ask Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe and Tom [...]
Though new and green, Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockton is determined to make his mark as a good lock-step Republican, and is threatening to file articles of impeachment against the President over his gun control efforts. Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe thinks the Benghazi “scandal” is the key to impeachment. “Of all the great coverups [...]
Well, that program didn’t work out too well. As reported by the Huffington Post, “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates there is $1.1 trillion in outstanding student debt. Roughly 85 percent of the loans are guaranteed by the federal government. Millions of students and families who took out federal loans in recent years are paying record [...]
Seems as though Ben Rhodes – an Obama camp higher-up entrusted with formulating foreign policy and working closely with the Administration on national security – has had the crosshairs on his back over what really happened post-Benghazi: According to the American Thinker, he’s a failed fiction writer, a Muslim sympathizer (which, you know, isn’t a [...]
From the folks who brought you the “Let Women Die” Act (which allowed hospitals to let women literally die rather than offer life-saving, abortion-related care), from the folks who opposed the Violence Against Women Act (because it offered protection to the LGBT community, undocumented immigrants and Native Americans), from the folks who believe rape is a god-given [...]
During a time when the New York Police Department has been under fire for its highly controversial stop-and-frisk policy, commonly known as a 250 stop, because it has been accused of unfairly targeting Blacks and Latinos, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told ABC’s Nightline on May 1. 2013 that Blacks are actually being “under-stopped.” According to [...]
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