Last week Representative Brown spoke on the floor of the House, in discussion relating to one of the multitude of bills introduced by Republicans all over the country that act to limit or eliminate access to reproductive health care by women. The official line is that all of these bills are meant to stamp out the murder of unborn Americans (my own ( Read more... )

A week or so back I wrote about a bill that had just gone through the Arizona legislature. It was easy to gloss over it as one more bill intended to restrict abortions by forcing extra steps into the process, requiring tests of dubious or nonexistent medical value, and so forth. The subtle detail hidden in the bill was that pregnancy was defined as ( Read more... )

If you've been watching the recent flood of "pro-life" legislation, and wondering how far the extremists who are driving the neuvo-Republican Party want to go, the Arizona House has just offered a pretty good idea. As an easy-to-miss element in their latest effort to restrict abortions, they want to define life as beginning when the woman starts ( Read more... )

Once again, the time of the House has been wasted for something having nothing to do with problems Congress should be addressing. Yesterday they passed by an (unsurprising) overwhelming majority a resolution to confirm that the motto of the USA is "In God We Trust," holding up the ancient tradition that has been in place ever since our Founding ( Read more... )

Over the last few weeks I've sent a number of comments on policy to my Congresscritter in the House. I just got this response. Somehow this fits with a lot of what the Republicans have been demonstrating in terms of connection with the people who aren't "corporate persons" in this country ( Read more... )

Sometime in the last two days someone living on a main road about half a mile from us put up a large (4' by 8') sign for Huckabee. Yes, I'm posting this on July 30 of the year Two Thousand TenWhile it isn't for Palin, it is still a strong indication the Republican message of "returning to the strong America of the past" is being listened to by ( Read more... )

This link is to a letter written by a Naval NCO who had served for a number of years before he had his fill of living a lie. It is well worth taking a minute to read ( Read more... )

The Republican economic policy for the last 30 years has just been repudiated at the highest levels. "Let business forces clear out the dead wood, because business knows what it needs and how to do it, and the federal government should have no role in regulation or oversight" has been replaced by "the federal government will take over the engines ( Read more... )