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Who Wants to be Governor?

The good news is that Democrats finally have someone to face likely Republican candidate Meg Whitman in the race for governor of California this...

One Nation Under God, So Says the Textbook

For decades,Christian groups have maintained that the United States is a Christian nation, that the founding fathers were Christian men who sought to build...

Mr. Smith Gets Filibusted

By now everyone has gotten an earful about “limited government.” Everyone from constitutional scholars to the crazy tea baggers have made that very clear....

Keep Teabagging Pure

Two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee approved a resolution urging Republican leadership to examine the records of candidates and verify if those candidates...

NFL’s Supreme Court Smackdown

This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether antitrust laws apply to the National Football League. If the Court rules in the NFL’s favor,...

Finding God’s Loopholes

Once more we are faced with the age-old moral question: do the ends justify the means? Is it acceptable to steal under certain circumstances?

The Long & Winding ‘Road’

APOCALYPTIC: The film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel captures the bleak hopelessness of the end of the world.

9/11 Trials Head to the Big Apple

When Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the “mastermind” behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, would be put on trial in New York along with four other terrorism suspects, there was a predictable outcry. The right wing claimed it was a foolish decision to give terrorists the same legal rights afforded to American citizens. The decision, however, is wholly appropriate and consistent with judicial precedent and the high moral standards the very same right-wing people always uphold as American ideals that need protecting. When the time comes to practice them, the right wing is reluctant to prove how effective they are.

Democrats Abort Pro-Choice Provision

Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives finally passed a health care bill with a vote of 220-215 with only a single Republican vote. While this is only the first step to any meaningful health care reform, the bill is already making waves for its amendment excluding funding for abortion. Until now, the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, has made it impossible for the Department of Health and Human Services to subsidize abortions in its annual budget. This disproportionately affected poor women who could not afford to pay the private insurance cost for abortions out of pocket and was a restriction for anyone receiving Medicaid or working for the government. But now even more restrictive language has been drafted, taking the abortion issue to an extreme and depriving millions of women of their right to choose.

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