This week, the Senate is planning to quietly hold a vote that would pardon President Bush for breaking the law by illegally wiretapping innocent Americans ( Read more... )

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No, I'm not kidding.

I just found out that a group of Republicans in the Senate are trying to derail the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act - a vital law that protects voting rights for minority citizens. They managed to hold it back for over a month in the House, and now it could be delayed even longer in the Senate. In just a few weeks, it could get bumped off the ( Read more... )

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They just keep getting more absurd. Some of the most rabidly anti-choice zealots in Ohio -- a hotspot in our Stand with the Statessm campaign -- gathered Tuesday for a hearing on a proposed abortion ban even more extreme than South Dakota's ( Read more... )

Right now Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the First Amendment of the Internet -- a principle called "network neutrality" that preserves the free and open Internet. Congress needs to hear from you today or they will hand over control of what you do online to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast ( Read more... )

Think sex and drugs destroy America? Try naive chastity. Oh, and "Purity Balls"
By Mark Morford, SF Gate ColumnistFriday, May 12, 2006 ( Read more... )

By Doug McIntyre
Host, McIntyre in the Morning
Talk Radio 790 KABC

There’s nothing harder in public life than admitting you’re wrong. By the way, admitting you’re wrong can be even tougher in private life. If you don’t believe me, just ask Bill Clinton or Charlie Sheen. But when you go out on the limb in public, it’s out there where everyone can ( Read more... )

Principal bars Coral Springs student from singing anti-Bush song at talent show
By Jamie Malernee
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted May 5 2006

A 10-year-old Coral Springs girl won't be allowed to sing a controversial President Bush-bashing ballad at her school talent show after her principal deemed it inappropriate and too political.
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