War on women extends to workplaces
There are disturbing trends regarding war on women and the workplace, especially public sevtor workers, including teachers, and hotel and hospitality workers in the private sector.
Ryan budget: A nightmare in the making
House Republicans approved a budget that is far worse than any reasonable person could, up to now, have imagined would ever come out of a U.S. Congress.
Path to victory in 2012
Just consider the track record of the Grand Old Party over the last few months:
Senate leader Mitch McConnell: Marijuana use risks death
Has Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell been watching too many reruns of Reefer Madness?
Will Arizona move left in 2012?
The 2012 elections are an opportunity to turn things around in Arizona.
Olympia Snowe preaches wrong lesson about her departure
Senate members, she went on to say, don't appreciate that "there is not only strength in compromise, courage in conciliation and honor in consensus."
Say no to GOP ploy on payroll tax cuts
If Congress doesn't move and renew jobless benefits by Feb. 29, millions of workers and their families will drown in a sea of worry, debt, foreclosure, homelessness and perhaps even worse.
Birth control is not attack on religion
The Obama administration made the right move when it mandated that all employers be required to offer free family planning services to women through their insurance plans.
Komen vs. Planned Parenthood: another attack on women
It's disturbing that the Komen Foundation has bowed to the Republican right in pulling its funding for Planned Parenthood's breast cancer prevention services.
Mitt Romney running a seminar on inequality
Should we all start praying for Mitt Romney? The GOP presidential hopeful from Bain Capital has become a walking, talking object lesson on how our plutocracy works - and why we desperately need to end it.
