Who (not which machine) is counting the votes?
Clearly much work is being done to oblige the powers that be to make sure voting machines produce accurate, verifiable results.But WHO is doing the counting? What is our side doing to have our people...
View ArticleObama using Cooper for healthcare spokesperson
The name of Rep. Jim Cooper meant nothing to me until I read the post linked to below.Seems Cooper had everything to do with scuttling Hillary's attempts to get healthcare.Not sure what the thinking is...
View ArticleStop the Trans Pacific Partnership
Attached is a link to Public Citizen. At the site there is a brief list of the key problems with the treaty. There is also a petition to sign.http://www.tpp2012.com./Key passage about the treaty below.
View Articlesupermajorities on rise in state legislatures
Saw headline about this in pundit roundup, but no link to a story. So I searched it myself and here is the link.http://news.yahoo.com/...
View ArticleUptick on GMO labeling initiatives
Even though agri-business won the first round in California, other seem to have been inspired to take up the fight. http://beforeitsnews.com/...I know folks love to joke about boomers getting...
View ArticleVeterans protest cuts to healthcare and pensions
As an old woman of very limited means I care as much as the next soul about Social Security. That said, I think letting the sociopaths in Congress do this to people in the armed services will be as...
View ArticleGreat new website about affordable housing
I found this at Alternet. It's about a new website called "I Can't Wait". The full headline is - New "I Can't Wait" Campaign Illustrates Why Our Affordable Housing Crisis Needs to End. I think the...
View ArticleEric Cantor facilitates citizen war on social research
A website sponsored by Eric Cantor is encouraging constituents to target social research for funding cuts. Suggested search topics include: culture, lawyers, museum,...
View ArticleKPFA being Occupied by staff
Seems the national board fired the station director illegally and on the sly. The director and staff have responded by going to work anyway, beginning with bolt-cutting their way past the padlocked...
View ArticleImpeaching Trump will help the Rightwing
How to win today and lose tomorrow.benjaminstudebaker.com/…Donald Trump must be allowed to finish his term if at all possible. Let these people be their own undoing, and let the left profit from their...
View ArticleDemocrats must realign or lose to someone worse than Trump
benjaminstudebaker.com/…After the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, both parties changed their primary systems to reduce the influence of party insiders. The Democrats gave their...
View ArticleCrowds at Bernie's rallies dwarf Trump crowds
A story at Gritpost has a long, wonderful roll of photos from Bernie’s rallies. The crowds are enormous.Why aren’t the media covering these with even a fraction of the attention they are paying to that...
View ArticleBad news for Trump in 2020
According to Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight, the electoral map for 2020 looks a lot more like 2012 than 2016. The states that carried Trump in 2016 are swinging back toward...
View ArticleCuomo putting NRA on the ropes
Governor Cuomo is going after the NRA hard and urging other states to follow his example.“If I could have put the NRA out of business, I would have done it 20 years ago,” the governor said late Friday...
View ArticleWe must fight Trump campaign on Facebook
the Trump campaign has spent $6 million on digital advertising since the 2018 midterm election. … Trump can be beat in 2020, but not if he is allowed to strengthen his position in 2019.Trump filed for...
View ArticleBrazen election interference
This story from Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report really frightens me because it is happening completely off the radar. While everyone is flipping out because Russia may or may not have influenced the...
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