The Democrats on the Super Committee are slightly more liberal than the Republicans are conservative, but the difference is only 3 percentage points – not a very significant amount. The Republican and Democratic teams alike included only one of their strongest ideologues, tending toward politicians in the middle range of their parties’ principles.

Whether or not you believe that American participation in the war in Libya is a good idea, now is a good time to call your U.S. senators and U.S. Representative through the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, and tell them what you’d like them to do. Votes on the war authorization legislation could happen in both houses of Congress as soon as tomorrow.

The federal government has spent approximately one and a half billion dollars funding abstinence-only sex education programs without seeing any positive results. At a time when programs that have been proven effective, such as Head Start and the WIC nutritional program, are being cut, the failed abstinence-only experiment should not be spared.

“The duties currently imposed by the United States were set in an era during which high rates of duty were intended to protect production of footwear in the United States…. Footwear duties, which are higher on lower price footwear, serve no purpose…” –

Eighteen Democrats and one independent from the United States have signed a letter urging the President and the Attorney General to return to a commitment to equality in the United States. The letter asks Attorney General Eric Holder to allow the decision that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is unconstitutional to stand.

Economically and militarily, the Pakistani-American Enterprise Fund Act is contrary to the national interest of the United States.

These politicians have not been elected to Congress to complain about Washington. They’ve been elected to Congress to be part of Washington, and make it better.

Over the past few years of reading the religion pages in your local newspaper, you may have come across a reference to something called distant intercessory prayer. The word “intercessory” in this phrase refers to the notion of a deity interceding in worldly events. Distant intercessory prayer is a practice carried out by religious groups [...]

Given that the government of Pakistan has nuclear weapons on missiles that are aimed at an American ally, and the Taliban are growing closer to toppling the Pakistani government, I don’t understand why the cash-strapped U.S. government ought to provide billions of dollars with no strings attached.

The Kerry energy bill allows utility companies to create new fees that customers will need to pay – 10 billion dollars in fees. Those extra charges on our utility bills will go to pay for a corporation with the goal of demonstrating that carbon sequestration technologies could work.