by MCDC | Feb 27, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, News
Is Sen. James Inhofe really the person we want chairing the Senate’s environment committee? What’s all this talk about global hunger? I don’t know about you, but I just tucked into a burrito and there are plenty more where that one came from. But that doesn’t...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | Issues, News
Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, cleared a major hurdle today to succeed Eric Holder as the country’s top law enforcement officer. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 to send the nomination to the full chamber, which is...
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 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...
