Month: April 2011

The Republicans want to repeal the health care bill the Democrats passed last year. They want to repeal Medicare and Medicaid. They want to make it next to impossible for poor people to get contraceptives. They want to stop all...

Here in West Virginia we are seriously interested in reforming the coal mining industry – whether easing it out entirely or at least improving the pollution of the air and water due to mining practices – but the most...

What the 9/11 attacks exposed is that we’re a nation of cowards who don’t have the guts to live up to our convictions. That’s why Senator Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg complained about having trials for the 9/11...

The Republicans have a plan to destroy Medicare. If enacted I will likely die an early death as will my wife. A little background: I have a chronic autoimmune disorder that forced me to retire from my profession over ten years...

The Republicans’ willingness and ability to use the budget process to offer another staggering redistribution of wealth from average Americans to the top two or three percent is pretty depressing. Let’s look at how...