by MCDC | Mar 25, 2015 | 2016 General Election, News
If birthers wanted to go after Ted Cruz’s citizenship, here are the many questions they could ask Cruz’s official Canadian birth certificate, as posted by the Dallas Morning News, shows that Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, on December 22, 1970....
by MCDC | Mar 23, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Issues, News
Potential Republican presidential candidates are neck-deep in the “money primary,” schlepping from one wealthy watering hole to another, kissing the proper palms, stroking the insatiable egos, and if successful, pocketing commitments and cash. The “ideas primary”...
by MCDC | Mar 22, 2015 | Education, Employment, Health Care, Issues, News
WASHINGTON — A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation that would have provided $21 billion for medical, education, and job-training benefits for the nation’s veterans. The bill fell victim to election-year disputes over spending and fresh...
by MCDC | Mar 21, 2015 | Action Alerts, Discrimination, Issues, News, Racism
It’s time for #Republicans in Congress to stop playing politics with law enforcement and national security and confirm Loretta Lynch as Attorney General of the United States. President Obama and Democrats are losing patience with the Republican-controlled...
by MCDC | Mar 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Voter Rights
The Nashville Student Organizing Committee and a group of nine students from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both historically black colleges, filed a lawsuit in early March against the state, alleging that excluding student IDs from the acceptable...
by MCDC | Mar 17, 2015 | Events, History, News
Congressional #Republicans who are trying to blow up US-European diplomacy with Iran would desperately like Americans to believe that they have some alternative besides war to the administration’s multilateral efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Iran....
