The American Legislative Exchange Council has an enormous amount of power in state legislatures. Not as well known is the power it wields within our court system.
Through Amicus Curiae Filings ALEC Tells Courts How to Decide Their Cases
Mitt Romney Lies His Ass Off To the NRA About Obama and Guns
Mitt Romney's lie your ass off to get elected tour took the stage at the NRA's annual meeting and uttered a barrage of falsehoods about President Obama and guns, so extreme that most of them had no relationship to any facts.
In South Carolina When In Doubt Or Not, Shoot To Kill
In South Carolina a local sheriff has justified the shootings of two men because the shooter believed his life was in peril. Even though, the victims were described as ducking and fleeing.
Another Questionable Castle Doctrine Shooting In South Carolina
Two young black men were recently killed in South Carolina. They were preparing to illegally break into an apartment, but the owner wasn't in the apartment, and no break in had occurred
The Best Supreme Court Money Can Buy Will Support Corporate Oligarchs on Health Care
The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for anything meaningful to emerge as long as Republicans have a majority in any branch of government.
The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women's health
The Catawampus State of 2012 America
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
City Manager Offers Misleading Justification for Not Arresting Travyon Martin’s Shooter
The Sanford City Manager issued a statement today claiming that the police were prohibited from making an arrest in the Trayvon Martin shooting, but a closer examination of the law reveals that the City Manager is misleading the press about the law.
Republicans Exploit 2 Murdered Border Agents To Attack Obama and Holder
The Republican Party is out to 'get' Barack Obama, and they are using Eric Holder and a bogus Fast & Furious investigation to do so.
The Dirty Thirty – March 2012 Edition
Don’t Be Surprised If You Get Shot This Year
As state and national elected officials battle for the most egregiously NRA-friendly legislation possible, bizarre shooting incidents are popping up around the country.
The Dirty Thirty – February 2012 Edition
As we enter 2012 the GOP's campaign to save America from non-existent problems rather than to create jobs shows no signs of abating
The Dirty Thirty – the GOP’s Rights Killing Agenda for America
With no signs of abating. Republican legislatures are if anything more eager than ever to press their rights-killing agenda for America and Americans
The Dirty Thirty Year End Edition
The Dirty Thirty Year-End edition is a recap of legislation, local, state and federal, the GOP is using to destroy America
AZ Gov. Jan Brewer Politicizes Border Violence in Arizona
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is using drug related border violence to justify a draconian and perhaps unconstitutional law, but the two have nothing to do with one another. In fact, in the video the reporter says, "he (Officer Pinal) was tracking the five suspects as they transported marijuana and other drugs..." So if Brewer wanted to deal with this issue, she should have written a law dealing with drug trafficking and undocumented fire arms, not people who "look undocumented". Hey, I'm just assuming she'd want to narrow the field down to the dangerous folks if her argument is the threat of violence.
Poutraged Eric Cantor Blames Democrats for Tea Party Violence
Righteous Eric Cantor claimed yesterday that his office was the target of gun violence. I wondered at the time the teabaggers may have shot at his office, seeing as they are now furious with Republicans for allowing a “Marxist Socialist Nazi” to “take over” the healthcare sector. But whose fault is that? They wouldn’t be so angry if Republicans hadn’t been lying to them for so long. So how would that have made the violence equal, if in fact, he had been targeted by the teabaggers? You lay down with dogs….Just to be sure, I checked Palin’s target map and I didn’t see Eric name on there anywhere. And then I remembered how Republicans love to play victim as soon as the heat gets turned up on them. Unfortunately for Cantor, the police don’t concur with his version of events. So much for Cantor’s desperate attempt to take cover for being a bully by hopping on the victim bus.