As the state of Tennessee ponders passage of a whole slew of laws removing/altering women's rights and their ability to decide on whether to be a mother or not, it seems that what they are really seeking is a Sexually Activity License. Liberadio(!) has been tracking the list of legislation (her full...

…to give a woman the skills to respond gracefully to some nonsense. All the “bless his heart, but that man ain’t right”s in the world don’t quite cover it when the Family Action Council’s David Fowler gives an interview about reproductive health-related bills in T...

Nancy Hauskins with Inside Politics interviewed Sen. Mae Beavers (R-17th) on the budget and the current legislative session. In this video clip (1:00), Beavers cites the jobs created from the federal stimulus bill her party voted against that will directly benefit her constituents. She also talks ab...

CF Foundation Develops Congressional Cystic Fibrosis Caucus in the USA, writes Cystic Fibrosis Foundation staffer Kathryn White in a moment of candor. (You can’t find this document directly on the internet anymore, but if you search for the headline on Google, then select the option “Vie...

That's the title of Jay Winkler's latest message.  He's the General Secretary of the United Methodist Chuch General Board of Church & Society.  LINK I have led hundreds of workshops on The United Methodist Church’s Social Principles during the past 20 years. I realized ...

Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...

It's a House divided between Reps. David Rivera and Marcelo Llorente. The two Miami Republicans are co-pilots in building the House budget and both are battling for a Miami-Dade Senate seat in 2010 along with a third House member, Rep. Anitere Flores. This is a recipe for political disaster. Riv...

"Bill disputes standard for retardation," is from today's Florida Times-Union.  A bill sponsored by two Georgia legislator-lawyers would make it easier for defendants, including condemned Waycross triple murderer Billy Daniel Raulerson, to use the defense of guilty but mentally r...

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Senator Tom Coburn thought that he was being awfully clever earlier this week when he spoke about wasteful pork barrel spending in the Omnibus Appropriations Act, and cited, as an example, spending for a program to deal with pollution coming from pig farms in Iowa. Pork barrel spending on pigs…...