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When I grew up, gun violence had yet to rear its ugly head in our schools. Frankly, I can not imagine how scared American kids are to go to school today, to say nothing of the fears of their parents. As the two-year anniversary of the Newtown tragedy on December 14th approaches, Moms Demand Action is ramping up efforts to strengthen membership and raise awareness about the reality of gun violence in …
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It is hard to look away from the tight horse race for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat. Pundits call the challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, 35, a long shot. If she's such a long shot, why does the incumbent Senator need to appeal to Kentucky women with this charade of an ad? http://youtu.be/Rq8NhMvo0pY Perhaps, a new Courier-Journal/Survey USA Bluegrass poll released Monday that shows McConnell leads Grimes …
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Women are not pleased with the Republican Party — and with jackass moves like Senate Republicans blocking the equal pay bill, you can see why. We shall soon learn if the GOP will pay dearly for it during the mid-term elections in November. Which brings us to a few key races, and the women vying to win them. First, incumbent Senator Kay Hagan in North Carolina. Here she is speaking out about the need to fund …
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley is running anti-Koch brothers ads that say, "Monica Wehby may be a good investment for the Koch brothers. But she’s the wrong choice for Oregon." It's a good line and one I am apt to agree with. http://youtu.be/CtK5mr63PaE Now, let's look at the challenger for a minute. Her views on certain things appear to be unorthodox. http://youtu.be/qAQ6fH1CFwg Yes, you just saw former …
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Iowan Joni Ernst—mother, soldier and conservative—wants to take her hog castration experience to the chambers of the U.S. Senate and clip, clip, clip the dreaded "pork," so beloved be her political brethren. http://youtu.be/p9Y24MFOfFU "Washington is full of big spenders—let's make them squeal," Ernst offers. What a towering load of manure. So-called conservatives freely spend the nation's tax dollars on …
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Russian oligarchs have much invested in Europe and in the U.S. The inverse is also true. We have much invested in Russia. Russia is big business. According to The Hill, public relations giant Ketchum has earned more than $26 million representing Russia, and is keeping the country as a client despite the widely denounced incursion into Crimea by the Russian military. “Our work continues to focus on supporting …
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There's a special election today in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Former Washington lobbyist David Jolly is the Republican contender. Alex Sink, former CFO for the state and Gubernatorial candidate in 2010, is the Dem. The seat was held by GOP Rep. Bill Young, who died in October after representing the district for more than four decades. He was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress at the …
The great English writer Samuel Johnson once declared that, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” Johnson’s beef wasn’t with patriotism per se, rather the issue of it being coopted for the purposes self-interest. In the preceding several hundred years since he uttered the phrase, proof of Johnson’s quote is still readily seen in many pockets of society. Politicians often appropriate the love of country …
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