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Day 10
This article will appear in the October 28, 2013 edition of The Nation. The shutdown of the government is a crisis for Americans, who rely not just on the services provided by the affected agencies but on the efficiency of their delivery. When 800,000 federal...
Day 9
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False Equivalence
TO: ABC, NBC, CBS AND CNN from CREDO Mobilize The government shutdown is not the result of a legislative breakdown or both parties refusing to compromise. It is a direct result of the right-wing House Republicans' legislative strategy of taking hostages and making...
Compromise
The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government
By Chris Hedges There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to...
Day 8
As the government shutdown headed into a second week with no resolution in sight, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday made three key points.. Read A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
The More Things Change..
Given the extreme ideology of the current slate of Tea Party candidates Cuccinelli, Jackson and Obenshain, this letter to the editor of the Madison Eagle is every bit as on point now as it was then.. Feb. 21, 2003 Letter to the Editor "Cider House Rules" It's...
Democratic Party of Virginia v. VA SBE
From the Bristol Virginia Democratic Committee Today the Democratic Party of Virginia released a complaint filed in federal court asking a judge to stop a plan by the Virginia State Board of Elections, in coordination with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli – who has a...
Day 1
On October 1, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown suspending discretionary services deemed "non-essential" by the Antideficiency Act. As a result of the government's failure to enact regular appropriations or a continuing resolution for the...
Birth Control to be Illegal in Virginia?
During this morning's Attorney General debate with Democratic candidate Mark Herring, Tea Party Republican Mark Obenshain attempted to sidestep his extreme record on women’s reproductive rights because he knows that Virginians simply will not vote in support of...
