Judge halts “don’t ask, don’t tell”
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, Calif., ordered the military Tuesday, Oct. 12, to immediately stop enforcing the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting a halt to the 17-year-old law.
Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estate and the horses he keeps for his daughter.
Undocumented nanny takes on Republican governor wannabe
Meg Whitman's former nanny and housekeeper accused the billionaire Republican candidate of having "treated me like garbage."
Obama admin speaks out against bullying gay youth
After a wave of teen suicides by gay youth recently due to bullying the Obama administration is speaking out saying no young person should have to endure a life of relentless taunts and harassment.
Air pollution and diabetes: Pollution levels too high
A new national study has found that there is a statistical correlation between exposure to air pollution and adult diabetes.
Sparks fly at Ohio Senate debate
Fisher blasted Portman as a tool of Wall Street and a "rubber stamp" for those seeking to return to the "casino" policies that caused the economic crisis.
CHEERS to early voters
CHEERS because lots of Americans are already voting, and JEERS to bullies who harass gay students.
Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
Election 2010: Crucial governors' races overlooked
The nation's governors play a key role in implementing federal policy - and none more so than in the next three years - when the states will have to do the heavy lifting on setting up competition in the health care sector, as part of the health care reform law Democratic President Barack Obama pushed through Congress.
One Nation coalition to continue beyond the Nov. 2 elections
The One Nation coalition will try to stay together to work on each other's causes after the Nov. 2 election, a top union participant says.
