Listen to SCOTUS Marriage Equality Oral Arguments
Listen: Hollingsworth v. Perry (CA Prop 8) Listen: United States v. Windsor (DOMA)
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Marriage Is Not Just a Religious Rite—It’s Contract Law
While reading my wall in Facebook this morning, I came across this salient point … — Sarah Wood/Opinionated Democrat “Marriage is a contract. It’s contract law. There are rights which are being granted to some and not others based on bigotry alone. That’s
Holding Insurance Companies Accountable for High Premium Increases
— by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services The Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibits some of the worst insurance industry practices that have kept affordable health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. It provides families and individuals with new
Top Ten Lame Reasons Being Used by Folks on the Right to Oppose Marriage Equality
Please pardon my sarcasm at the ridiculousness of their reasoning: Being gay is not natural. Yeah … like real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester and air conditioning. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay. Gee … I guess
It’s Well Past Time to FIX our Citizens United Problem
— by Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary for President Bill Clinton The Supreme Court, which hears oral arguments today and tomorrow on same-sex marriage, has become the nation’s de facto decider of social policy. The Federal Reserve, meanwhile, whose monetary policy is
RADICAL REPUBLICAN BUDGET: ROBIN HOOD IN REVERSE
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today is continuing the drumbeat against House Republicans who voted for the radical Republican budget, releasing a new web video to highlight the chasm between mainstream Americans’ priorities and House Republicans’ radical approach. In the video –
The Morality Brigade
by Robert Reich We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in “Roe
What I’ve Been Reading Lately— Monday, 3/25/2013
Lean in, Women; Corporations and Government, Brush Off Your Hands Veena Trehan, Op-Ed: Fifty years ago, Betty Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique” explained how wives were not fulfilled by homemaking and childbearing. Woman couldn’t get credit, were fired when their pregnancy showed and held
Govt Shutdown Averted As Can Gets Kicked 6 Months Down The Road
The budgeting process for our Federal Government is a convoluted process that doesn’t come close to matching any budgeting process in the private sector. Since Congress hasn’t actually agreed upon spending and taxing policies, which they can use to create a budget, some means
REPUBLIBAN Approaching Ability to Impose Their Theocratic Beliefs on North Dakota Females
North Dakota Becomes First State To Ban All Abortions By Defining Life At Conception By Tara Culp-Ressler on Mar 22, 2013 at 3:00 pm North Dakota lawmakers voted on Friday afternoon to pass a “personhood” abortion ban, which would endow fertilized eggs