by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Discrimination, Education, History
Thomas Jefferson knew that education is vital to a functioning Democratic Republic. Conservatives have other ideas THOM HARTMANN, ALTERNET Sure, the war on education helps Republican lawmakers destroy unions and slash government spending, but it’s our history of...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, Madison County, Virginia, Voter Rights
Because elections are locally administered in the United States, voter suppression varies among jurisdictions. At the founding of the country, most states limited the right to vote to property-owning white males. Over time, the right to vote was formally granted to...
by MCDC | Feb 25, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Issues, News
A new poll from Public Policy Polling is making headlines this week because it reveals that 57 percent of Republican primary voters want to make Christianity the national religion, even though doing so would require removing the First Amendment from the Constitution....
by MCDC | Feb 21, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Education, News
If you ever want to make a conservative touchy, the quickest way—out of many quick ways—is to hint that the connection between ignorance and holding right-wing views is more than a coincidence. But when you look at what Republican politicians get up to these days,...
by MCDC | Feb 20, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, News
by Ryan Grim WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush personally lobbied the secretary of health and human services, while his father was vice president, on behalf of a Miami figure who would later flee the country accused of one of the greatest Medicare frauds in the...
