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What Do Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Women and Families? A Lot.
What Do Offshore Corporate Tax Loopholes Cost Women and Families? A Lot. Tax Day (April 15) is nearly upon us. Maybe you’re scrambling to file, or maybe you’re happy to have a refund on the way. Whatever your feelings about your own taxes, it’s important to remember...
Voter Suppression, Virginia-Style
"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." -- Henry A. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, March 10, 1975. RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia law will require all voters to have photo IDs beginning next year. Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a bill...
Why Did Cuccinelli Purchase Company’s Stock After They Sued the Commonwealth?
4/02/2013 Richmond, VA -- On Sunday The Washington Post reported on the latest revelation involving Ken Cuccinelli's conflict of interest with tobacco and drug company Star Scientific. As the Post reported, Cuccinelli failed to disclose his stock holdings in the...
Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering
Will Obama regret offering to cut Social Security? Conservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare.U.S. politics seems stuck in an endless debate about the size of the federal deficit and federal debt. From congressional...
As Earth Day Approaches, a Message of Hope
As Earth Day Approaches, a Message of Hope: How Grazing Cows Can Reverse Global Warming Could grazing large herds of cattle reverse global warming? Yes, according to ecologist Allan Savory. And nothing offers more hope for a planet in distress. For years,...
DPVA Certifies Statewide Nomination Petitions
"the most signatures any candidate has collected for Governor in Virginia history" 4/02/2013 h/t http://www.vbdemocrats.org/ RICHMOND -- Yesterday afternoon the Democratic Party of Virginia informed the Virginia State Board of Elections that it has certified the...
Virginia’s War on Voters
Dear Friend, Voter ID requirements are changing again. And, once again, Republicans are making Virginia national news for all the wrong reasons. The refrain of last night's Rachel Maddow Show from Republicans is "Let's make it harder." Let's make it harder for...
The Dangers of Surveillance
From Schneier on Security A blog covering security and security technology. March 29, 2013 The Dangers of Surveillance Interesting article, "The Dangers of Surveillance," by Neil M. Richards, Harvard Law Review, 2013. From the abstract: ....We need a better account of...
All Politics Is Local
Do what you can within reach of your arm, I will tell her, because anything you touch is part of a tapestry that reaches far and wide, even unto the highest and mightiest seats of power. Do what is possible within reach of your arm, make the weak mighty and give the...
Defense Should Give it a Rest
via Defense Should Give it a Rest. In day two of the Supreme Court hearings on issues related to the legalities surrounding gay marriage and partnerships, the focus was on the Defense of Marriage Act. Several of the justices raised concerns about DOMA. Justice Kagan...
