“Pro-Muslim” textbooks banned in Texas
By focusing on Texas, the extreme right has been able to keep Thomas Jefferson and Thurgood Marshall out of textbooks in districts around the country.
Global warming at stake in November elections
Not one Republican running for the US Senate in the November elections favors action to curb greenhouse emissions causing global warming.
Science: did wind help Moses part the waters?
There may be a scientific explanation for the parting of the Red Sea.
Obama discusses elections with student journalists
Today's young people, the so-called "Lost Generation," is going to be just fine, says President Barack Obama-but only if the progressive reforms made in the past two years are defended from the Republicans-and expanded upon.
Hope is stronger than hate
In their effort to win the Congress this year and the White House in 2012, the Republican Party and their tea party attack dogs are unashamedly promoting fear, racism, bigotry and red-baiting.
Republican candidates "pledge" open warfare on working families
Republican Party Senate candidates pledged this past week to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.
GOP facing multiple hurdles in election drive
Republicans hoping to seize control of Congress on Election Day face a week of obstacles that are expected to complicate their plans.
Activists call FBI raids massive “fishing expedition”
CHICAGO - Antiwar and solidarity activists filled the West Town Community Law Office here of Melinda Power Saturday, Sept. 25, to show support for Joe Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner whose house was raided by the FBI on Friday.
GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam
It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."
Women senators offer bill to compensate Black farmers
WASHINGTON - Senators Kay Hagen and Blanche Lincoln unveiled their bill at a Capitol Hill rally following a march by Black farmers demanding compensation for decades of discrimination.
