Title X Grants, which fund family planning and other preventive health services, are already prohibited from being used to fund abortions by the Hyde Amendment. Yet, in the face of reality, the GOP and right-wing media continue to trumpet the notion that defunding Planned Parenthood will prevent tax dollars from being spent on abortions. This has […]
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Republicans in congress are using the budget cuts debate as a way to slip their climate denying, anti-woman ideology into the bill, while house democrats attempt to meet Republicans, more than halfway, to avert a government shutdown. As of this post there are 7 hours, 55 minutes, and 20 seconds until a possible shutdown if […]
In light of Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) “courageous” and “serious” 2012 budget proposal, as many establishment pundits have called it, I can’t help but wonder: where on the class ladder does Paul Ryan fall? As it turns out, in 2009 Ryan had a net worth of $590,092 to $2,425,000. That’s a lot of money, way more […]
How far to the right is Obama willing to go in order to compromise? Not to say that compromise is inherently wrong, but it’s important to consider the motive of the side you are compromising with. And when it comes to today’s GOP, particularly the tea-party wing, any effort to compromise automatically pushes everyone to […]
Allison Kilkenny posted an excellent article in the Nation this weekend about how, for many people, budget cuts are literally a matter of life and death. The proposed budget cuts to Medicaid that recently passed in Texas were the most alarming: The president and CEO of Texas Hospital Association, Dan Stultz, says the budget cuts […]
On the surface, differences between Democrats and Republicans on budget cuts seem oceans apart, given the heightened rhetoric over a looming government shutdown. But in reality, Democrats are just as committed to austerity cuts as Republicans. It’s simply a matter of how much. The fierce budget-cut battles in congress over a possible government shutdown mask […]
Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant post today about why it would be foolish, not to mention illegal (not that it matters), to send weapons to the Libyan rebels, a strategy the Obama administration is seriously considering. While his entire argument is certainly compelling and well worth reading, he makes one particularly significant point that has, […]
In light of the anti-choice legislation popping up in states like South Dakota, Iowa, Florida, and Texas (to name a few), I want to highlight what is rarely discussed in the abortion debate: the deceptive, duplicitous hypocrisy of the “pro-life” agenda. For starters, “pro-life” is an inaccurate term to use when describing those who want to […]
We live in uncertain times. The economy is always on the brink of collapse, the wars continue unabated, climate change keeps rearing its ugly head, and the costs of everything from gas to healthcare are increasingly unaffordable. It wouldn’t be so bad if solutions were on the horizon, but we are stuck with a broken […]
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