The Founding Fathers explicitly defied the first of the Ten Commandments, placing in the Constitution a ban on religious tests for any public office, and further establishing freedom of religion and the separation of
The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.
It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.
Voters can decide to call candidates when they receive a robocall, and inform their campaigns that their vote has been lost because of the robocall. When enough people provide this direct feedback to campaigns, the robocalling machines will be shut down.
A hoax? Like people in Wyoming dressed up in bigfoot outfits, with chupacabra footprint makers, to make the murder of Shephard look like an anti-gay crime when it really wasn’t?
Why does Virginia Foxx keep asking to be re-elected, to return to work in Washington, if she really hates the place so much?
If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.
How is it that Virginia Foxx believes that the Democratic majority in Congress managed to cause the price of crude oil to rise years before it actually came into being?
To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.
Only someone determined not to see what’s happening around them could deny that America is going through profound economic suffering. Gasoline prices are up, and that means that there’s inflation for practically everything else we buy too. At the same time, work is increasingly hard to come by. New jobs aren’t being created much any [...]
The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, as its name implies, would begin a transition from reliance on out-of-date fossil fuels for transportation toward more efficient transportation by train. It’s exactly what we need to deal with America’s current economic and environmental problems. For some bizarre reason, almost all of the Republicans in the House of Representatives oppose it.
