Which members of Congress and congressional candidates have accepted money from Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, the coal company whose increasingly unsafe record of mining operations culminated in this week’s Upper Big Branch coal mine methane explosion.

39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

The following are the Top 10 Absentee Senators in the U.S. Senate during 2009: 1. Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia – absent for 159 of the 397 roll-call votes in the Senate during the year 2009 2. Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia – absent for 58 Senate roll-call votes 3. Republican [...]

The prisons of Guantanamo are an international symbol of the shameful disintegration of American liberty. Yet, Senator Jim Bunning has the audacity to compare Guantanamo to the Statue of Liberty itself.

Senator Jim Bunning is not known for supporting government transparency and accountability. Failing to support government openness about its surveillance activities, Bunning regularly votes instead in favor of government-supported discrimination. But this week Senator Bunning has come out with a good idea that has the potential to enhance citizens’ awareness of what’s going on in [...]

Democrats may have the majority of seats in the Senate, but the Republicans still appear to have the control. The Democratic-Republican distinction appears not to have anything near the meaning as the progressive-regressive split, and the progressives are clearly in the minority.

“He’s a control freak! He wants to control everything that happens.” – Senator Jim Bunning, referring to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Supporter of denying women the right to sue for job discrimination? Senator Jim Bunning. Supporter of legislation to let the government spy on citizens without a warrant? Senator Jim Bunning. Supporter of legislation [...]

The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.