A recent Gallup Poll shows that support for marriage equality continues to increase across the nation, while state polls also show growing support, including in AZ, MI, VA, (Arizona, Michigan and Virginia). While not alone, those three states show significant swings. In general, as the Gallup Poll report headlines, “Same-Sex Marriage Support Solidifies Above 50% [...]
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Hillary Clinton’s Political Reemergence, Set to Speak at Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards
Philippe Reines, a Clinton spokesman, said Clinton’s appearance at the awards event next week would mark her first public speaking event since leaving the State Department. Clinton was scheduled to present an award to Melanne Verveer, a longtime friend who served under Clinton as the first U.S. ambassador at-large for women’s issues. [Associated Press] AND [...]
Republican Election-Rigging in Virginia and Beyond
NATIONAL REPUBLICANS who continue to be frustrated that the American voter won’t reward their extremism with handing them the national popular vote have started systematically to take voters out of the equation. It’s been making the news for days in Virginia. American Progress has released a document titled Grand Theft Election. How the Republican election-rigging [...]
Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst Group Silent Before Michigan’s Governor Snyder Vetoes Concealed Carry Permit Law
Although [Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst] group takes no public position on the measure, StudentsFirst’s allies in Michigan politics have no problem with concealed carry in schools. Indeed, the vast majority of the Michigan legislators whom StudentsFirst recently endorsed voted in favor of the legislation. Of 22 legislators who received election endorsements from StudentsFirst, 14 supported the [...]
Top Story — Insane Nation: Background Checks, the NRA, and Beyond
“Guns were her hobby,” said Dan Holmes, the landscaper of Nancy Lanza’s sprawling yard here on the edge of town. “She told me she liked the single-mindedness of shooting.” [Washington Post - Newtown school shooter’s mother collected guns, was loath to let people inside home] WHEN I gave an interview back in 2008 to The [...]
Obama Era Brings New Meaning of “Freedom” and the Collapse of Unions that Built Middle Class
“This is just the first round of a battle that’s going to divide this state. We’re going to have a civil war,” Hoffa said on CNN’s “Newsroom.” [CNN] WHAT HAPPENED in Michigan didn’t arise out of nowhere. It developed with the help of Democratic Party laziness and lack of leadership, when the party of unions [...]
Michigan ‘Right to Work’ Measure Passes, Thousand Protest *VIDEO UPDATE*
As expected, the so-called “right to work” measure was approved by legislators, with Republican Gov. Rick Snyder earlier saying he would sign it. As reported at DemocracyNow: Pushed through before Democrats gain five House seats in the new legislature next month, opponents call the effort an organized attack against labor that will suppress wages and [...]
Top Story: Obama in Michigan, Battleground in “Right to Work” [Full Remarks and Video]
MICHIGAN IS about to become the latest state where right to work for less replaces a living wage. Nothing compares to having right to work here in the heart of where the most important American union, the UAW, began. You might think I’m sentimental, with all of this twaddle about union “romance” and the blood [...]
Michigan House Passes First Piece of ‘Right To Work’ Legislation the Day It is Introduced: Protestors in State Capitol
Yesterday Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and GOP legislative leaders announcing “fast-track plans to make Michigan the nation’s 24th right-to-work state,” according to the Detroit Free Press. “Fast-track” was clearly meant seriously, as the lame-duck session moved into action immediately. From Free Press: Michigan House passes right-to-work legislation after Democrats walk out to protest closed Capitol [...]
Boehner Scurries to Find Woman in All Male GOP Boys’ Club to Chair Committee She’s Not Even On
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AFTER BEING busted for an all white, all male Republican leadership monopoly, with no woman in sight, Speaker John Boehner responds by taking a woman not even on the committee, because there are no women on the last remaining committees without a chairman, [...]
David Axelrod Bets his Moustache on Obama Winning MN, PA, MI
@davidaxelrod “I’m so confident of that I’ve put my mustache on the line.” Talking about Romney SUPER Pac ads running in MI, MN of PA — Taylor Marsh (@taylormarsh) October 31, 2012 ON A CONFERENCE call this morning Team Obama pulled all the political quips and sports metaphors out of their Halloween grab bag, making [...]
Meet the Republican “Flat Earth Five” of 2012
THEY ARE Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24), Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-07), Rep. Francisco Canseco (TX-23), and Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08). Joe Walsh might ring a bell. He’s the guy who likes to mock his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double amputee. He’s also got a bad reputation [...]
Top Story: Al Gore, Time to End the Electoral College
“I’ve seen how these states are written off and ignored, and people are effectively disenfranchised in the presidential race. And I really do now think it is time to change that.” – Former Vice President Al Gore AMEN. …and hallelujah. If you don’t live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North [...]
Top Story: Romney Shrugs off Critics, Pleased his Birther Joke Got a Laugh and Cheers
“The crowd loved it and it got a good laugh.” – Mitt Romney DEFLECTING THE QUESTION about what he said today in Michigan, Mitt Romney shrugged it all off as a joke when speaking to Scott Pelley of CBS News. It didn’t bother Mr. Romney that he was not only channeling Donald Trump, but embracing [...]
Mitt Romney Floats Birther Joke in Michigan
THE GAFFERIFFIC candidate either can’t tell a joke or actually believes this stuff works. Adviser says Romney went rogue. “I love being home, where but the both of us were born. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate; they know that this is the place where both of us were born and raised.” [...]
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