extracts from Wikipedia and PoliticsUSA The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should...
In politics, as in sports, you can’t win ‘em all. With a divided government and a House of Representatives firmly in the control of tea partiers, it was a tough year for progressives in Washington – one marked by the painful cuts of sequestration…...
byLaura Clawson The American Legislative Exchange Council has been influencing policy for the worse for decades; with the news that ALEC is struggling to keep members and raise the big corporate money to which it’s accustomed, let’s review just what all...
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America’s biggest companies. It brings them together much as a dating service would do. It sits them in rooms behind closed doors where...
