Yesterday there was a major Tea Party rally scheduled in Columbia, S.C, in which about 2,000 people were expected to attend. Well it didn’t turn out that way: The Columbia Tea Party went from Donald Trump to jilted chump after the celebrity businessman canceled his appearance at Thursday’s State House rally, and state legislators approved […]
Yesterday the Ohio Senate passed SB5, a bill to strip public employees of their basic right to collectively bargain. This was after some very dirty tricks by the Senate GOP, including booting two GOP members off the committee because they opposed the bill. What isn’t getting much attention is one little provision hidden in the […]
From Bloomberg: The top-ranking U.S. official in charge of ensuring the safety of offshore oil rigs resigned four weeks after the Gulf of Mexico disaster that killed 11 workers, sank a $365 million vessel and triggered leaks that have gushed millions of gallons of crude into the sea. Chris Oynes, associate director of the offshore […]
An interesting tweet, however actions speak louder than words (or 140 characters or less). On Saturday Roy Blunt voted against healthcare reform, yet last year over 2,200 veterans without healthcare died in our nation. How does Roy consider that a way of honoring them? [congress]B000575[/congress]
The EPA has finally started to undo the raping of the land that George Bush allowed: Dozens of mountaintop coal-mining permits are being put on hold until the projects’ impacts on streams and wetlands can be reviewed, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Announced by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the move targets a controversial practice […]
A group of veterans back from Iraq and Afghanistan are launching an AD campaign against our administrations lack of care for veterans. This is something well over do. These brave soldiers are sent to do something that none of us would want to do, and return to find their benefits have been cut by a […]