Last week, the U.S. Senate passed S. 1867, a military authorization bill with a special provision granting the U.S. military the power to put people into detention without charges and without any time limit. All classes of people are subject to detention without charge: Americans citizens and noncitizens, people living inside the borders of the [...]

S. 1738 provides a 3.8 tax cut, but only for households with an income of over $250,000 per year. It’s a special tax deal for the 1 percent most wealthy Americans. It provides no benefit whatsoever to the 99 percent.

Why did John Cornyn celebrate a document that calls the military an eternal enemy of civil liberty? Why did Cornyn praise the document, which refers to priests as “ever ready minions of power”? Is Cornyn some kind of Communist?

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.

Huge numbers of politicians are indebted to a company that makes its profits from the vulnerability of Americans in economic distress. The following are among the biggest recipients of donations from Cash America.

Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the worst parts of the Patriot Act can expire, as they were originally intended to do.

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.

This last week, Lamar Smith in the House and John Cornyn in the Senate introduced identical bills (H.R. 1076 and S. 436) to criminalize anonymous use of the Internet. If passed, the legislation (entitled the Internet Safety Act of 2009) would require every person in America to register every single time they use the internet [...]

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.