by MCDC | Aug 24, 2013 | Civil Rights, Economy, Events, History, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Racism, Voter Rights
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered early Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
Liberals have spent years now agonizing over why it is that many working-class white Americans vote for the party whose policies on taxes, organized labor and much more work against their own economic interests—the “What’s the matter with Kansas”...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Speaking directly to the camera, Paul Osborne of Raven says “My family’s been in Southwest Virginia since the mid 1800s. My grandfather would roll over in his grave if he saw what was going on today with the energy companies.” “Ken Cuccinelli is helping the energy...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Education, Environment, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From This Week In Richmond, Senator Ralph Northam offers an in-depth perspective on the issues and challenges facing Virginia....
by MCDC | Aug 22, 2013 | Citizens United, History
In case you missed the news this summer, the Supreme Court set a date to hear McCutcheon v. FEC, a case that challenges aggregate campaign contribution limits. On October 8, 2013, the folks who opened the floodgates for outside spending in Citizens United v. FEC may...
by MCDC | Aug 22, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
In what has to be the least convincing pitch in modern political memory, House Republican leaders are suggesting to their members that they should forego a government shutdown over Obamacare and instead breach the debt ceiling over Obamacare. Reuters reports that “the...
