Possible Low-Skilled Immigrant Worker Program Awaits Senate Agreement
A prominent Senator, the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have sent the Senate an agreement on an low-skilled immigrant worker visa.
A prominent Senator, the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have sent the Senate an agreement on an low-skilled immigrant worker visa.
This month, an article argued the Iraq War was the single worst foreign policy decision in US history. This may be more than just hyperbole.
Cesar Chavez was a Christian activist, basing his civil rights rallies upon Jesus’ example of achieving social justice through non-violence, and is an iconic hero to Mexican Americans.
The news that there seems to be someone gunning down prosecutors in Kaufman County, Texas didn’t sway Sen. Lindsey Graham off of his there should be no new federal gun legislation stance.
There are millions of Americans who will seek out real Easter eggs to feed their children, wait for their $189 of monthly food stamps, and wonder how they will replace school lunches this summer.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
In an attempt to bash the President over food stamp usage, Fox News claimed that the recession ended four years ago, which is right about when President Obama took office.
The Republicans are sending campaign staffs to boot camp to teach them how to put out the fire after one of their candidates comes out in support of rape.
Most Americans do not object to debt when they receive something in return such as road or schools, but a great deal of America’s debt is for wars that only benefit the military industrial complex.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is reprinting their domestic violence and sexual assault flyers after discovering that the toll free number listed sent victims to an adult sex line.
conservative Christians, did not limit their threats to President Obama and the Supreme Court, and set their sights squarely on the Republican Party.
After the scarlet letter license debacle, Republican Gov. McCrory eliminates the Office of Hispanic/Latino affairs, which was created in 1998.
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are desperate for recession stretched dollars, but overpaid CEOs and underpaid workers are a good reason to take your business elsewhere.
In her latest SarahPAC video, Sarah Palin urges her supporters to give her money to fight back against GOP consultants, but in 2012 Palin spent millions on Republican political consultants.
Police in Utah are searching for an AR-15 stolen from the vehicle of Clark Aposhian, a prominent gun lobbyist and instructor, and the GOP’s ‘primary source’ for gun issues.
Republican Representative Don Young tried to explain away his use of the racial slur ‘wetbacks’ by saying it was okay during his day.
Piers was trying to have a sane discussion about gun safety measures when Dana Loesch exploded, ‘If you stab someone with a spoon it can be qualified as an assault weapon!’
With some veterans waiting years to access the benefits they need and deserve, Senator Boxer led a bipartisan group uring the Dept of Defense to work more effectively with the VA.
The Society of Actuaries conducted a study on the costs of medical claims and draws some scary conclusions. Exactly what the client paid for.
Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema of Grandville, MI is refusing to resign after posting a raging anti-gay article on his Facebook wall, rife with inaccuracies.
Rush Limbaugh claimed today that 50% of the news on Twitter is being posted by people getting paid by the Democratic Party.
Wisconsin has fallen again, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics report. They are now at 44 out of 50 states for private sector job growth from September 2011 to September 2012.
Many officials in Torrington are facing the rape culture head-on, including attempting to deal with the cyberbullying of the 13-year-old victims.
In his remarks on gun violence today, President Obama made it clear that he still standing tall and taking the fight to the NRA.
DOMA’s day in court went from bad to worse, when the GOP’s favorite argument: states’ rights came back to bite them in the ass.
Republicans in Congress and statehouses have made every attempt to create a permanent underclass living in poverty, and they are unfazed at the devastation they are creating for children
It has been ten years since the invasion of Iraq , and conservatives are still trying to spin the war to the American people.
Justices must acknowledge the prohibition on same-sex marriage, and homosexuality in general, has no other foundational basis than it is prohibited adherents of the Christian religion.
Sarah Palin is back, and ready to help Democrats win more seats in 2014 by supporting Republicans that will never win in November.
The House used the sequester crisis to slip the Monstanto Protection Act into a short term spending measure. Activists are calling on Obama to issue an executive order labeling our food.
Rick Perry thinks that he speaks for everyone in the state of Texas, because the governor declared to reporters that both he and the state oppose gay marriage.
John Boehner has skimmed $742,000 in House funds to defend DOMA, but his cap on the defense fund is actually $3.1 million taxpayer dollars. A chunk of that money is coming out of the Justice Dept.
Hillary Clinton is such a strong potential presidential candidate that she leads both Scott Walker and Paul Ryan in their home state of Wisconsin, and Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio in Florida.
Jon Stewart did the mainstream media’s job, and revealed that GOP minority outreach strategy is the same one that Kool cigarettes used to target African Americans.
The Supreme Court listened to arguments in the first of two cases considering marriage equality today, and here is what you need to know.
Shouldn’t we be questioning the right of government to mess with marriage at all?
Rush Limbaugh lived down to expectations today by claiming that the 14 Amendment doesn’t cover same sex or animal marriage.
The Service Employees International Union is putting its muscle behind immigration reform, with a national campaign including a $300,000 ad buy that will run on the most-watched cable news programs.
Wal-Mart’s infamously poor treatment of labor is starting to negatively impact its bottom line as customers abandon the superchain’s unstocked shelves, disorganized stores, and long waits for help.
John Boehner has promised that he will scrap the ACA , and take healthcare coverage away from 30-40 million Americans.
George W. Bush spent $1.32 million last year, but if we have a debt problem, why aren’t Republicans cutting the ex-president’s spending?
Omaha, NE police not only used excessive force while performing arrest, but they also entered a home without a warrant to confiscate video, and knocked over a woman in a wheelchair.
Republicans take on Nancy Pelosi and, to their peril, Hillary Clinton.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was asked repeatedly what he’s learned so far in his 10 weeks in DC. The answer is not much.
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s voucher schools are teaching Louisiana kids that most slave owners were kind to their slaves, and that the KKK are civic reformers.
The Republican-led House is allowing an investigation into Bachmann’s ethics at the same time as the party would be better off without her. The GOP appears to be all done with Michele.
Robert Zimmerman compared Trayvon Martin to a black teenager who is accused of murdering a baby in Georgia because both are black and both are giving the camera the middle finger.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has more pro-marijuana position than the Libertarian-Republican Sen. Rand Paul.
When obstruction for obstruction’s sake is the Republican reason for serving in government, any fantastical reason suffices to block the President’s choices.
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison is a powerful lobbyist for the Podesta Group. He’s about to become the Chairman of the state party.
Tea Party Republicans have the answer to their communication problem – mind control over popular and influential liberals – Rachel Maddow and Krystal Klear.
Sen. Rand Paul went on Fox News Sunday and told a pretty big lie about marijuana. He claimed, with zero evidence, that marijuana takes away your incentive to work.
Financial institutions may not face prosecution because they cannot go to jail, but the men and women committing fraud and money laundering should be criminally prosecuted and sent to jail.
For the final nail in the GOP’s coffin, we have the revered former Republican Senator Bob Dole’s deep disappointment and shock at the modern day Republican Party.
Even as support for same sex marriage reaches a record high, Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and CNN’s State Of The Union all gave air time to right wing gay bigots.
It may be ten years too late, but someone in the mainstream media has finally called out Karl Rove for a lie.
According to testimony by two police officers supported with audio tape evidence, Stop and Frisk targets racial minorities.
While opposing fictional provisions in the Arms Trade Treaty, the NRA becomes a schill for War Criminals and Terrorists.
Republicans blame the media for their messaging problem, but they have a plan to fix that.
The paranoia that Fox News created is turning against them, as tea party activists are boycotting the network for being too far left.
Israeli President Shimon Peres awards President Obama the country’s highest civilian honor.
Here is the proof that ‘pro-life’ Republicans are not actually concerned with the life of a fetus: An Iowa Republican killed a maternal care bill with a poison pill.
The Republican Party’s ratings now stand at a 20-year low and there’s very little indication that it can reinvent itself enough to win a national election.
Bill Maher used video interviews of Republicans demanding spending cuts, but refusing to cut anything they like to demonstrate the Republican hypocrisy on spending and cuts.
The Republican class war has, for well over a decade, contributed greatly to income inequality that hastens America’s rush to oligarchy, and the primary driver is trickle down tax cuts.
On MSNBC, Michael Moore explained that we must prosecute Bush and Cheney for war crimes in order to send a message to future presidents.
Seventeen Senate Democrats ignored the facts about Keystone XL, and joined with Republicans to pass a measure urging the construction of the pipeline.
It turns out the”liberal extremists” that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.
President Obama’s visit to Israel was such a success that Fox News is desperately talking about anything else, including calling for a boycott of the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) praised President Obama for reaching across the aisle and said Republicans should compromise on the budget by increasing tax revenues.
John Boehner is nothing more than a dummy mouthing the message of his corporate ventriloquist.
Republicans are threatening to hold the debt limit increase hostage and they can hardly wait to present their ransom demands to President Obama.
The supposedly liberal-leaning Grey Lady has bestowed the gift of cover for House charlatans who would like you to forget they continue to serve the same warmed over plate.
By claiming that Obamacare would literally kill people, and then calling Medicaid a ghetto, Michele Bachmann is destroying herself and the Republican Party.
Once again, the right has got it all wrong. Instead of ignoring Israel, Obama is visiting sooner than any Republican president in U.S. history.
Instead of apologizing or listening to the complaints that the network was soft on rapists due to their Steubenville rape convictions coverage, CNN is outraged and dismissive.
When a heckler interrupted Obama’s speech in Jerusalem, he discouraged the audience from booing, and ended up getting a standing ovation for embracing the’lively debate.’
As Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget advances toward the finishing line in the Republican-led House, a new Rasmussen poll shows Ryan flailing with a 15 point drop.
Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan have purposely created crisis after crisis in an attempt to get middle class and poor Americans to pay the debts that they ran up under Bush.
In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper’s The Lead on CNN, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) replied to a question about the sequester by admitting that Obama ‘didn’t want the cuts.’
Rachel Maddow called out the mainstream media for blaming the dead, dying, and virtually non-existent tea party for the fact that Republican policies are unpopular.
What a coincidence. Republicans talk about outreach to the same people whose votes they are trying to suppress.
Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the richest 1% nearly 15% in tax cuts.
Rush Limbaugh offered some advice to conservatives on how to, ‘get women into bed.’ The countdown to conservative extinction has begun.
The Republican talking point that Obama is on a spending spree has become so widespread that even some on the left believe it, but the truth is that federal spending as a percentage of GDP has fallen.
The RNC has a big plan is to pay workers to infiltrate minority communities in order to spread their repeatedly rejected propaganda.
Michele Bachmann dodged, and literally ran away from questions about her CPAC Obama lies by pivoting to Benghazi conspiracies.
The five Democrats who killed the assault weapons ban will further embolden the million caliber wackjobs to make this the most dangerous county on the planet, wars notwithstanding.
On this the 10th anniversary of the worst Foreign Policy blunder in our time I would like to share a dying hero letter.
The latest PPP poll of the potential Florida governor’s race finds Gov. Rick Scott trailing former Gov. Charlie Crist by twelve points, 52%-40%.
It wasn’t cowardice that killed the assault weapons ban. It was the opposition of five Democratic Red State senators that forced the ban to be dropped from the bill.
In less than a week Sen. Rand Paul has gone from the filibuster hero/CPAC straw poll winner to total zero with the right for vaguely, kind of supporting some form of immigration reform.
In this country when a 16-year old girl is brutally raped by promising football players, society mourns their ruined careers and finds myriad reasons to blame the victim.
Rick Snyder’s intention all along has been to hijack democracy in Michigan – and Detroit in particular – and now he officially accomplished exactly that.
An increasing number of states have passed a bill whose main component is increasing reading skills. It’s really another privatizing effort
House Republicans effectively guaranteed that the working poor will continue falling deeper into poverty, and giant retailers will continue posting record profits.
The new Pew State of the Media report confirmed that Fox News could be facing future economic woes because for the second straight year they have failed to add any new viewers.
The NRA has decided that it is great strategy to claim that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy whose husband and son were mass shooting victims doesn’t know what she is talking about on the gun violence issue.
Former Sec. of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton added fuel to the 2016 speculation by announcing her support for marriage equality today.
What is really behind the Republican party’s incremental about face on the subject of same-sex marriage? It’s all about the money.