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- New Sanctions Against Iran Smelling Very Oily
- 77 Democrats Sacrifice Medicare To Protect Military Spending
- Dozen Democrats Join House GOP To Demolish Nuclear Nonproliferation
If Marriage Is Only A Religious Institution…
Larry Gause, one of two Republicans running to challenge U.S. Representative Hank Johnson in the 2010 congressional election, has argued that the principle of separation of Church and State requires that the government relinquish control of marriage law to churches, and no longer provide legal recognition of the status of marriage. Gause proposes this ...
Drilling for Oil in Lee’s Summit, Missouri?
Democrat Emanuel Cleaver represents Missouri's 5th congressional district in Congress. Republican Jacob Turk would like that to change. For the third time, Turk is challenging Cleaver in the 2010 election.
One of the persisting differences between Cleaver and Turk has to do with drilling for fossil fuels. Cleaver favors maintaining the current level ...
The Christmas Prophecy of Ed Martin
In his 2010 re-election campaign, U.S. Representative Russ Carnahan will face down a Republican challenger, Ed Martin. If Martin's campaign rhetoric is to be taken seriously, Carnahan may end up facing much more.
A few days ago, Martin posted a campaign blog article in which he compared himself to the baby Jesus, or perhaps a ...
A Golden Mean Intimidates With Guns?
The golden mean isn't a new idea. There have been many politicians who have proposed the idea that an idea that sits somewhere between two other, opposing, ideas must be the source of an appropriate solution. When put to the test, this principle is easily exposed as nonsense (given the opposing ideas of ...
Kansas Democratic Senate Candidate Urges Withdrawal from Afghanistan
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback supports the expansion of the 8 year-long fighting in Afghanistan, in spite of the profound military failure there so far and the thorough corruption of the Afghan government created by the occupying force. But then, Brownback won't be a senator much longer. He's announced his retirement, and in 11 ...
Gillibrand Ducks Afghanistan, Tasini Takes It On
Search the senate campaign site set up by Kirsten Gillibrand all you like, but you won't find a single policy statement describing for New York voters where Gillibrand stands on the expansion of the war in Afghanistan. The fighting in Afghanistan is perhaps the most important foreign policy matter our nation faces, as the ...
Bill Maske Dares To Take On Corporate Ag in Iowa
U.S. Representative Tom Latham, from Iowa's 4th district, likes to adopt a pose of protecting rural communities when he's opposing environmental regulation. Latham recently commented, for instance, that requirements to measure emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas, from manure management systems "would drive up costs for farmers" in a way that's totally unfair.
What's the ...
Update: Meager LGBT Equality Caucus Activity Oct-Dec 2009
The following marks the measurable activity of the LGBT Equality Caucus in the House of Representatives from October 19 (the date of our last update on the caucus) to December 23, 2009:
On October 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a Defense authorization bill containing legislation defining violence against people on the basis of sexual ...
Despite History, Mike Castle Tries Recasting Self as Moderate for Delaware Senate Race
In Reuters today, Delaware Representative Michael Castle launches his effort to land a Senate seat next year by recasting himself as a Republican "moderate." This effort is a more than bit strained: reporter Thomas Ferraro justifies the "moderate" label by noting Castle's public willingness to state that no, President Barack Obama was not born ...
Grassley Whines For UnGreen Biodiesel
A generation ago, I attended college out in Iowa. One of the first things I noticed upon moving there is the way that corn gets pushed into just about everything. Ethanol was the proposed wonderfuel back then, and we heard quite a bit about it, but that wasn't the only bit of cornstuff ...