Tag: discrimination

Since the horrific murder of Christopher Lane, the right wing media has tried to seize on the opportunity to portray the African American population of our country has criminal racists.

Just received this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: President Obama signed an order Thursday night requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo […]

The GOP has already been saying that they will run on repealing healthcare. Let’s look at the things that will already be enacted at that time. NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHILDREN WITH PRE?EXISTING CONDITIONS — Prohibits new health plans in all markets plus grandfathered group health plans from denying coverage to children with pre?existing conditions. Effective […]

Now that numerous players in the NFL have come out publically opposed to Limbaugh buying the St. Louis Rams, including some of the top brass with the NFL Players union, can we expect Rush Limbaugh to go on the air today and claim he is the victim of some sort of discrimination? I wouldn’t be […]

Well I guess the wingers can’t use their claim that he is a Muslim if the IRS is investigating his Christian church: The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Barack Obama gave to its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president. Obama is a member of […]

During his State of the Union address, Bush was pushing Congress on a school voucher program. Today we got two different stories of Catholic schools discriminating against women (here and here). Considering how these schools always use separation of church and state to defend their actions, should our tax money go to them? Better yet […]

I guess this explains why O’Reilly has the top ratings. No matter how disturbing, everyone has to look at that bloody car wreck: I usually don’t defend Geraldo, but he deserves it this time. The issue was about a drunk driver that happened to be an illegal immigrant. O’Reilly wouldn’t have become so billegerant if […]

What amazes me is that the Republicans are so worried about politicking that they are willing to back-burner the entire country to take up the issue of gay marriage this week. When I think of the problems surrounding our country; Iraq, healthcare, FEMA, energy crisis, immigration, record level deficits – just to name a few, […]