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The people have already decided on gays in the military; it’s time Congress got the message. Yesterday marked a sad chapter in America’s struggle against discrimination when the Senate …

Who says that Republican congress-critters don't care about minorities in our society? Why, at this very moment, they are pushing hard to pass a $372 billion federal program to …

Washington - Republicans in the House of Representatives Thursday plan to offer a blueprint for how they'd dramatically change what they term an "arrogant and out of touch government …

Washington - The right's atwitter — literally, in some cases — about President Obama's comment to Bob Woodward that America “can absorb a terrorist attack.” This unobjectionable remark — …

Is America in the grip of a right-wing backlash that will hit the November elections like a hurricane? This narrative is gathering steam. It is fed not only by …

According to Mike Huckabee, people with pre-existing conditions are like houses that have already burned down.

Parents and students in Chicago occupying a school field house to protest its planned demolition have become a symbol of community resistance to blind budget cuts. More than 50 …

Attacks on Wikileaks are really an attack on free speech says its founder, Julian Assange. Scheduled for release in the next few weeks in concert with international and American …

GOP House Candidate Claims Muslims Want “Victory Mosque” Near Ground Zero

Dodgy voting systems; Luddite judges; stressed out, arrogant election staff - small wonder vote counts are often wrong. Half a Loaf in the Maricopa County, Arizona, Election Trial