by MCDC | Jul 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Equal Rights, Ethics, Events, Gun Reform, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Racism, Social Security, Voter Rights
In 2016, Democrats meet in Philadelphia with the same basic belief that animated the Continental Congress when they gathered here 240 years ago: Out of many, we are one. Under President Obama’s leadership, and thanks to the hard work and determination of the American...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), right, listens to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) speak at a news conference in Washington about their opposition to the climate change bill on Wednesday, June 4, 2008. (Photo: Brendan...
by MCDC | Mar 8, 2015 | Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Issues
A new documentary shows how a “professional class of deceivers” has been paid by the fossil fuel industry to cast doubt on the science of climate change, in an effort akin to that from the tobacco industry, which for decades used deceitful tactics to deny...
by MCDC | Jan 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
by MCDC | Dec 18, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Energy, Issues, News
Excerpts from an article by Steve Benen Remember the 2012 presidential campaign? It was just two years ago that Mitt Romney boasted that if he were elected president, he’d “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower” by the end of his first...