Now this is the kind of change we believe in: The US has lifted a 22-year immigration ban which has stopped anyone with HIV/Aids from entering the country. President Obama said the ban was not compatible with US plans to be a leader in the fight against the disease. The new rules come into force […]
For more proof that Republicans don’t care about health care reform as much as being obstructionists we turn to Roy Blunt: “Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of […]
Elizabeth Dole seems to think that naming an AIDS funding bill after Jesse Helms will erase the years of bigotry that scum brought upon our capital. What next? The George W. Bush Diplomacy Act, or the Dick Cheney Energy Conservation Bill?
This is absolutely absurd: The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a lawyer’s request Tuesday for immediate access to the medical files of a Guantanamo prisoner who says he has AIDS. Chicago attorney H. Candace Gorman said she needs access to her client’s records as she wages a legal fight to make sure he gets adequate […]
So the talk today has been about Jamie Lynn Spears and her pregnancy, which has turned into another debate of abstinence only programs. I love the defenders of these programs that quickly dismiss every study that says it don’t work because they think it does. It is a serious case of being stuck in fantasy […]
Raw Story has gotten their hands on one of the first proposals for budget cuts the GOP has authored. Seems like they are not as much up on public opinion as we would hope. They aren’t targeting the actual pork items, instead they got their sites set on something else. Mostly they are calling for […]