Senator Franken Calls for FISA Court Opinions to be Made Public When Possible
Senator Al Franken used this opportunity wisely to call for greater transparency, within reason and with respect to national security issues.
Senator Al Franken used this opportunity wisely to call for greater transparency, within reason and with respect to national security issues.
The Boy Scouts of America leadership has voted to allow gay youngsters to join. Right-wingers are fleeing in droves; “BSA is too liberal.”
Paul’s vision of America has nothing to do with the United States Constitution and democracy and everything to do with the Bible and theocracy
Mitt Romney is still clinging to his skewed polls and claiming that if Hurricane Sandy wouldn’t have hit when it did, and he would have known about the IRS scandal, he would have won the election.
Rand Paul (R-KY) released an outraged statement in response to “news” that the government was collecting phone records. The only problem is that Congress has known about it for seven years.
Republicans are using a desperately ill 10-year-old child as a prop in a political campaign to smear Obamacare.
Speaker John Boehner said that President Obama must explain why the NSA program is important, but that he was sure that the intelligence committees were involved, and congress approved it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blamed the members of Congress who continue to support the Patriot Act for the news that the NSA has been collecting millions of telephone records from Verizon.
Lawrence O’Donnell explained that the real scandal in D.C. is that your representatives can loot the people’s money, take it right out of the treasury, in order to enrich themselves.
If Republicans really want criminal convictions, they can look into Willard Romney, John Boehner, Koch oil associate ERM, and conservative groups’ illegal activities.
The bad news keeps coming for Governor Scott Walker (R-WI), who’s thrown the state into what’s looking now like a long term economic contraction.