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April 15, 2011 9:02 pm | By Miranda Blue
NOM’s Gallagher Invited to Share Anti-Equality Myths with House Committee
This morning, Rep. Trent Franks, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, called a hearing on “Defending Marriage” to examine the Obama Administration’s decision to stop defending the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” in courts. Franks is pretty,…
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April 15, 2011 8:43 pm | By Justin
Support Marriage Equality? You’re a Bigot!
It seems that the religious right is resorting to that old schoolyard taunt to yet again attempt to portray themselves as the victims of the fight for marriage equality. I am rubber, you are glue… In her testimony before the…
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April 15, 2011 6:46 pm | By Miranda Blue
“Raising Everyone’s Taxes” *
The Washington Post today reports on a growing rift among Republicans, between those who are becoming willing to close a few corporate tax loopholes to help close the budget deficit and those who are sticking with their pledge never to…
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April 15, 2011 3:09 pm | By Brian
As Students Standup To Anti-Gay Bullying, The Religious Right Pushes Back
People For the American Way’s Michael Keegan writes today in the Huffington Post about right-wing activists who are trying to stop school officials and lawmakers from developing bullying-prevention strategies that address anti-gay harassment and violence, erroneously warning it would lead…
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April 14, 2011 10:09 pm | By Justin
Walker Admits He Never Campaigned On Union-Busting
If Gov. Scott Walker wonders why there is such a negative reaction to his union-busting efforts in Wisconsin, he needn’t look very far: a poll by the non-partisan Wisconsin Policy Research Institute found that nearly six in ten Wisconsinites disapprove…
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April 14, 2011 9:53 pm | By Miranda Blue
Attacks on Mosques Spread Through U.S.
Last September, in the heat of the mis-named “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy and the hubbub over Terry Jones’ first, aborted, Koran-building spectacle, People For’s Michael Keegan warned of the “careful mainstreaming of Islamophobia” in American life: Some anti-Park51 crusaders, even…
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April 13, 2011 7:13 pm | By Miranda Blue
Obama: GOP Budget Changes “the Basic Social Compact in America”
President Obama, in a speech on the budget this afternoon, ripped into the GOP budget plan created by Rep. Paul Ryan, which would decimate Medicare and Medicaid, as well as programs like Pell Grants for higher education, in order to…
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April 12, 2011 10:15 pm | By Paul Gordon
Voucher Provision in Budget Bill Shows the Mendacity of the Right
If you were negotiating in good faith in order to make budget cuts for the current year – cuts that were so important to the nation's welfare you were willing to shut down the entire federal government over them –…
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April 11, 2011 6:24 pm | By Jen Herrick
PFAW urges you to contact Congress tomorrow on Equal Pay Day
Equal pay in America needed to be put back on track after the devastating Ledbetter ruling, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act answered that call – but it wasn’t the last word. The Paycheck Fairness Act would move us…
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April 7, 2011 3:46 pm | By Miranda Blue
GOP May Shut Down the Government Over Family Planning, Clean Air
The Hill reports that Democrats and Republicans in Congress have reached an agreement on the amount of money to cut from next year’s federal budget, just before tomorrow’s deadline for avoiding a government shutdown. Great news, right? Not so fast:…
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April 7, 2011 2:58 pm | By Paul Gordon
Vitter and Paul Ramp Up Their War Against Latinos
Earlier this year, Senators David Vitter and Rand Paul introduced a constitutional amendment to eliminate one of the key advancements in liberty in American history: the citizenship provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, a necessary reform that was made possible only…
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April 7, 2011 1:44 pm | By Kyle
Stewart Grills Huckabee On His Praise For David Barton
Cross-posted from Right Wing WatchA few weeks back, we captured video of Mike Huckabee being introduced by David Barton at the Rediscover God in America conference in Iowa, during which asserted that he wished every American would be forced -…
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April 6, 2011 10:43 pm | By Drew Courtney
The Story From Wisconsin: Big Defeat For Walker
A lot of people are feeling pretty good in Wisconsin right now, but Governor Scott Walker probably isn’t one of them.Last night, his hand-picked successor to become Milwaukee County Executive (the office Walker left when he became governor) was crushed…
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April 6, 2011 5:57 pm | By Brian
Pro-Corporate Groups Spend Millions To Save Walker’s Preferred Justice In Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser was supposed to win reelection in a walk, after winning a February primary with 55% of the vote. Prosser, a former Republican state assemblyman, faced JoAnne Kloppenburg, who previously served as the state’s assistant…
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April 6, 2011 3:20 pm | By Paul Gordon
Honoring King By Following in his Footsteps
The day after the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, a group of undocumented youth in Atlanta honored him by applying his message of peaceful protest against injustice. Supported by civil rights leaders like Rev. Timothy McDonald –…
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April 5, 2011 10:02 pm | By Miranda Blue
Applauding Disaster
Mother Jones flags this paragraph from a Washington Post story on the tense budget negotiations that may lead to a government shutdown at the end of this week: House Republicans huddled late Monday and, according to a GOP aide, gave…
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April 4, 2011 9:35 pm | By Paul Gordon
Roberts Court Leaves State’s Church/State Money Laundering Scheme Intact
A closely divided Supreme Court issued a seriously flawed decision today in Arizona Christian Tuition v. Winn, using constitutional sleight of hand to get around the Establishment Clause's prohibition against the use of public funds for religious purposes and to…
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April 4, 2011 8:21 pm | By Sergio
Hundreds Protest Union-Busting Outside Koch Industries in Washington
Today, PFAW joined the We Are One Campaign and hundreds of workers outside of Koch Industries in Washington, DC to protest the political activities of the Koch brothers, the notorious multibillionaires who are working to destroy unions across the country.…
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April 4, 2011 8:11 pm | By Shaun
Ohio Governor Signs Union-Busting Bill But The Fight Isn’t Over
Welcome to Ohio 2011, the state that has become the new laboratory for various right wing bills aimed at destroying Ohio’s middle class, and communities of color. And it just got worse for Ohio workers. Last week, Governor John Kasich,…
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April 1, 2011 10:13 pm | By Paul Gordon
Wisconsin Republicans Seek to Block Americans From Seeing Their Embarrassing Video
Wisconsin Republicans have been using the threat of legal action this week to suppress dissemination of a video that they are, quite justifiably, embarrassed about. As reported by Talking Points Memo: First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled…