by MCDC | May 16, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage
Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re heading toward levels of inequality not seen since the days of the nineteenth-century robber barons, right-wing conservatives haven’t stopped lying about what’s happening and what to do...
by MCDC | May 15, 2014 | Economy, Employment, History, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage
This country’s fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980 By Thom Hartmann, Alternet There’s nothing “normal” about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it’s a choice we need to...
by MCDC | May 14, 2014 | GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Issues, Virginia
A group of recalcitrant Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates have blocked Medicaid expansion at every opportunity. They are so determined to keep poor people from getting health care that they are preventing passage of a two-year budget for the state for the...
by MCDC | May 8, 2014 | Civil Rights, Issues, News
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves … these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.” –...
by MCDC | Apr 30, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, Voter Rights
For the first time, a photo ID law is struck down under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Here’s why that matters. Very big news out of a federal court in Wisconsin, where the state’s polling place Photo ID law (Act 23) has now been struck down as both a...
by MCDC | Apr 24, 2014 | Racism, Video
I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at...
