
Republicans have been trying to get rid of this country’s social safety net ever since it was first enacted. Now, they have a new proposal to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the working/middle class.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking member of the [...]

Given the resurgent popularity of the Constitution in many conservative political circles as of late, ideological opponents have taken to looking for weaknesses in position and policy that are susceptible to attack. One of the more tiresome and ignorant retorts deals with the [...]
Press Release from Rep. Murtha’s office:
Congressman John Murtha Passes Away at Age 77
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman John P. Murtha (PA-12) passed away peacefully this afternoon at 1:18 p.m. at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA. At his bedside was his family.
Murtha, 77, was Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on [...]
I've really got to learn to hold my phone sideways on these things:I don’t know why we didn’t think of this earlier…… From South Carolina
(1) “Subversive organization” means every corporation, society, association, camp, group, bund, political party, assembly, body or organization, composed of two or more persons, which directly or indirectly advocates, advises, teaches or practices the duty, necessity or propriety [...]

As many of you may know, I am the Director of Operations for the Fair Boundaries Imitative, and I want to be very clear that the views I express in this blog (or any blog, for that matter) are my own and do not represent [...]
So I was watching these commercials on TV yesterday that kept getting interrupted by a sporting event. What I don't understand is why there was so much hub-bub about 11 minutes of action.- The legislature (and the Sutherland Institute), still bitter about school vouchers, just doesn’t like citizen initiatives. No other way to say it. And I mean really don’t like them.
- Financial reform talk drives Wall Street donors from Dems to GOP.
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Thanks to those who came to the first “Bagels and Briefings” on Saturday morning. We had a great conversation about funding and revenue streams for public education, trends over the past decade, and specifics related to possible legislation to increase equalization of funding. I’ll work to put the materials on [...]


