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Some in Congress want changes in military law as a result of sex scandals

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - May. 16 (News Report) - Members of Congress said they are so angry about the crescendo of sex-crime scandals in the armed forces that they are considering fundamental changes to military law and other measures that the Pentagon has resisted for years. ...

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Best of the Web Today: 'Hate Crime' Hoaxes

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 03 (Opinion) - Why are they so common, especially on campus?

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FBI looking into relationship between McDonnells, donor

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rosalind S. Helderman, Jerry Markon - Apr. 30 (News Report) - FBI agents are conducting interviews about the relationship between Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, his wife, Maureen, and a major campaign donor who paid for the food at the wedding of the governor’s daughter, according to four people familiar with the questioning. ...

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Could Gosnell trial testimony end today?

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Philadelphia Inquirer - Apr. 24 (News Analysis) - After five weeks of prosecution evidence, the defense in the murder trial of West Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell could be over this afternoon.

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A red state/blue state chasm

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Fred Hiatt - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate , those of us who don’t think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome. ...

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The Tea Party’s Next Bogeyman: Obama's Common Core Conspiracy

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Tim Murphy - Apr. 04 (Comment) - Last week, conservative talk show host and media mogul Glenn Beck decided to let his listeners in on what he dubbed "the biggest story in American history." It's called System X. "If you don't stop it," he warned , "American history is over as you know it." As Beck explained it, a little-known Department of Education program, supported by rich philanthropists, business interests, and the United Nations, was turning public schools into the world"s next great data-mining frontier. Using carrots offered up in the 2009 stimulus bill, the federal government and its contractors could compile hundreds of points of data on your kids and use it for who knows what.

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Inside the NRA's Koch-Funded Dark Money Campaign

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Peter Stone - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - "This election is going to be won on the ground," Chris Cox, the National Rifle Association's top lobbyist, told me early last year as the gun lobby prepared to launch its all-out campaign to defeat Barack Obama. Historically, pro-gun voters have favored Republicans by a margin of 2- or 3-to-1, but that only matters if they vote. And, Cox stressed, millions of gun owners were not registered yet. See our full special report on gun laws and the rise of mass shootings in America. The NRA's get-out-the-vote effort, its most ambitious ever, would target gun owners from all angles. Its field workers would register them at gun shows and gun shops in battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. The NRA spent millions on TV spots; one seven-figure ad buy last October attacked the president for "chipping away" at Second Amendment rights, urging Americans to "defend freedom." Chuck Norris, a spokesman for the NRA's Trigger the Vote campaign, warned apathetic gun owners , "I'll come ...

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Anti-Choice March Madness: The Worst State for Women

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard, Jaeah Lee, Tasneem Raja - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - Despite being Women's History Month, March has seen relentless attacks on ladies' rights. As soon as one state passes some outrageous woman-restricting bill, another is right behind with something even, well, outrageous-er . The "state-by-state race to the bottom on women's health," as the president of Planned Parenthood put it, inspired us to set up our own March Madness bracket to determine the national champion in the War on Women. ROUND ONE: THE MEAN SIXTEEN No doubt about it, these states all brought their A games to this season's War on Women . From imposing onerous new building codes on abortion clinics to threatening to throw doctors in jail for providing life-saving abortions, these contenders made it all but impossible for women to obtain (still constitutionally protected) abortions. The qualifiers: The Matchups Louisiana (1) vs. Arkansas (16) Louisiana barrels into the tournament as top-seed in its region and the expected overall champion, since the anti-choice ...

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Editorial: Beyond Mr. Obama’s Inaugural Message on Gay Rights

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 28 (Editorial) - By including gay rights in the arc of the struggle for civil rights — the road “through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall” — President Obama linked his presidency to ending antigay discrimination and underscored the legal wrong of denying gay people t

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Rig the Vote

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Charles M. Blow - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - Republican lawmakers in some states have a new devilish plan to tilt presidential votes their way.

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Steve Stockman is the Nuttiest Freshman in Congress—Again

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Tim Murphy - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - On Monday of last week, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) announced that if President Barack Obama attempted to enact new gun violence prevention measures through executive order, he would have no choice but to file articles of impeachment. By Tuesday, he was comparing Obama to Saddam Hussein for using children as props at a speech introducing a gun control package. By Wednesday, he had stepped back from the precipice, asserting that "impeachment is not something to be taken lightly." After all, where did anyone get that idea? This is the way it has always been with Steve Stockman: Light a fire; add some potassium nitrate; then stand back and gawk at the crater.

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5 Anti-Abortion States to Watch in 2013

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The 2012 presidential campaign and the fights for the House and Senate were filled with talk of "legitimate rape," reproductive rights, and a "war on women." But now that the campaigns are over, the legislating is just beginning—and in 2013, women in states across the country will face even more new restrictions on abortion.

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Fact-checks on gun control and gun violence

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Dec. 19 (Fact Check) - The shooting in Newtown, Conn. that killed 26 people has reopened a national debate about gun control. As it unfolds, you might hear some familiar claims : Gun control Under federal

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Obama Medicaid Expansion For Poor On The Brink

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Dec. 02 (Comment) - It's health care brinksmanship, with hundreds of billions of dollars and the well-being of millions of people at stake.

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Obama and Romney remain silent on climate change, the biggest issue of all

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By George Monbiot - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Despite hurricane Sandy, neither Obama nor Romney will speak about global warming. The danger this poses is huge Here's a remarkable thing. Neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama – with the exception of one throwaway line each – have mentioned climate change in the wake of hurricane Sandy. They are struck dumb. During a Romney rally in Virginia on Thursday, a protester held up a banner and shouted "What about climate? That's what caused this monster storm". The candidate stood grinning and nodding as the crowd drowned out the heckler by chanting "USA! USA!". Romney paused, then resumed his speech as if nothing had happened. The poster the man held up? It said "End climate silence". While other Democrats expound the urgent need to act, the man they support will not take up the call. Barack Obama, responding to his endorsement by the mayor of New York, mentioned climate change last week as "a threat to our children's future". Otherwise, I have been able to find nothing; nor have the many ...

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The Mistake That Is the Libertarian Party

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Randy Barnett - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Voting the LP line could swing the election to the Democrats. That's not an outcome libertarians should hope for.

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Nov. 4: Did Hurricane Sandy Blow Romney Off Course?

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - If President Obama wins re-election on Tuesday, the historical memory of the race might turn on the role played by Hurricane Sandy. But while the storm and the response to it may account for some of Mr. Obama's gains, it assuredly does not reflect the whole of the story.

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Anti-Obama texts traced to activist

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Steve Friess - Oct. 31 (News) - The spate of unsolicited anti-Obama text messages that have hit hundreds of cellphones in recent days appears to be the work of conservative activist Jason Flanary and his Virginia-based communications firm, ccAdvertising. Every domain listed in previous

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Sheldon Adelson Gives $1.5 Million To Pro-George Allen Super PAC

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Paul Blumenthal - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Billionaire Sheldon Adelson is expanding his super PAC giving in October by making a huge contribution to a group working to return former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) to his old seat. Independence Virginia PAC reported Wednesday that it had received a $1.5 million contribution from the Las Vegas casino mogul on Oct. 12. This is the largest contribution the Virginia super PAC has received since it launched.

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FiveThirtyEight: Oct. 19: After Romney Gains, Should Obama Concede Florida?

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - Mitt Romney's gains in Florida call into question how vigorously the campaigns should be contesting it over the final two weeks of the campaign.

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Romney’s Throwback Language, His Mittisms

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:40:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MICHAEL BARBARO, ASHLEY PARKER - Oct. 20 - Richard Perry/The New York Times Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Virginia this month. His unique style of speaking has distinguished him throughout his career. GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — At a campaign stop in Rockford, Ill., not long ago, Mitt Romney sought to

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New economic data key to presidential race

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:44:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - Oct. 20 - Cleveland -- Unemployment rates fell last month in nearly all of the battleground states that will determine the presidential winner, giving President Obama fresh fodder to argue that voters should stick with him in an election focused squarely on the ec

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Poll: Who Won The Debate? Vote!

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

fox4kc.com - Oct. 17 (News) - Did you watch the presidential debate last night? Wow! Talk about fireworks! I’ve never seen such an exciting war of words. In fact, I half expected the President and Mitt Romney to throw down their microphones and wrap their hands around each others thr

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Is David Axelrod Responsible for Climate Change Inaction?

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - "It was always going to be the case that whenever the visible reality of climate change became so painfully obvious that you couldn't deny it any more, that it was going to flip over to a winning issue. The question was: When was that going to happen?" So spoke Joseph Romm, the former Clinton energy official and popular blogger behind Climate Progress , at the first Climate Desk Live briefing at the Mott House on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Romm and his fellow panelists—strategist Betsy Taylor of Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions and consultant Paul Bledsoe , who worked in the Clinton White House on climate communications—were in strong agreement that the weather of the last year has transformed climate change into the type of issue that could impact the 2012 election, simply because most Americans now feel directly affected by it. That emphatically includes independents and swing voters . "One of the problems with climate change is it's always been distant and remote. This ...

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Is Retraining the Unemployed Actually a Good Idea?

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Amy Goldstein - Oct. 15 (Investigative Report) - This story first appeared on the ProPublica website . In February 2008, six days before he would win the Wisconsin presidential primary, Barack Obama traveled to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., for a major economic address. Janesville is a community of 63,000 on a bend in the Rock River near the Illinois line, three-fourths of the way up Interstate 90 from Chicago to Madison. On the sides of downtown buildings, pastel murals by area artists show scenes from the city's past, hinting at its muscular civic spirit and outsized role in U.S. industry. "History. Vision. Sweat." is lettered across one mural's bottom edge. The small city has been catapulted into public view as the hometown of this year's Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan. But long before, it was the home of Parker Pen. And for nearly a century, the soul of the local economy had been the Janesville Assembly Plant, where GM had started out making tractors and, in 1923, begun to build cars. The oldest operating ...

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