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All Virginia Lawmakers Have a Stake in Expanding Medicaid
Uninsured Virginians are in every district across the commonwealth Virginia lawmakers should provide needed health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of Virginians who live and work in the communities they represent by expanding access to health care through...
Uninsured Need Medicaid Expansion
Letter to the Editor of the Times-Dispatch Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli’s claims in his Op/Ed column, “Medicaid expansion is wrong for Virginia.” Cuccinelli claims that if Medicaid is expanded under Obamacare to provide care for...
President Obama’s Remarks on Changes to the NSA’s Surveillance Programs
via Mother Jones Substantive reform, or just rebranding in the face of a PR nightmare? Obama's NSA Reforms Are Going to Tick Off Everyone.. "No one expects China to have an open debate about their surveillance programs, or Russia to take the privacy concerns of...
Black Female Voices
A conversation with bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry about race, black womanhood, politics, media, and love. bell hooks (née Gloria...
Members of Congress Introduce a New Fix for the Voting Rights Act
Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA....
If You Thought NAFTA Was Bad, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new "free trade" agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Like other Free Trade Agreements (remember NAFTA?), this one is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and financial...
Kochs flood airwaves with anti-Obamacare ads
by Joan McCarter Since September, Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for their support of the Affordable...
“Forward together, not one step back!”
“A MOVEMENT, not a Moment!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbeTp44NTY&list=UUeBaVCo1Abl6J-g5E1x080w&feature=share If you believe that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, if you understand that what happens in North Carolina has...
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress (via Techdirt) With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as "trade promotion authority") in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its constitutionally-granted sole...
The $17 Trillion Delusion
The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Debt By Marty Wolfson Shortly after the ceiling on federal debt was raised on October 17, 2013, the conservative Heritage Foundation notified its readers that the outstanding debt of the United States had...
