I read about a simple tweet from a young high schooler that landed her in the principal’s office with orders to write several apology notes and it made me angrier than Black Friday–it pissed me off.
Journalists and others lit up Twitter with claims of media blackouts and physical aggression by the NYPD as the police continued to empty Zuccotti Park of all protestors and media, alike.
Big Corp Tobacco won a 15 month stay and preliminary injunction against the Congress approved FDA cigarette packaging requirements authorized by the Tobacco Control Act.
After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a strict voter ID law in Indiana 3 years ago, the GOP has taken up the battle cry of “VOTER FRAUD” to enact voter ID requirements throughout the United States with many Republican controlled states considering adding to the ones already enacted before the 2012 election.
The 99% Occupy movements are spreading throughout this great land and now a movement is gaining support from an unlikely source: the 1%.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the enactment of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act this month, I reflect on a decade of unparallelled achievements by the TSA.
Florida and Missouri have passed into law, bills that require recipients of welfare to submit to blood, urine or hair sample tests in order to claim their checks. Thirty-six states have bills pending and many Republican dominated state houses are eager to test those that are ‘living off the generosity of the real taxpayers.’
This past week, Governor Walker called the Wisconsin State Legislature back to Madison claiming that he wanted to focus on job creation. He issued an executive order labeling it the ‘Back to Work Wisconsin’ special session.
Be grateful. That is what I am hearing from my conservative friends and I’m listening and would suggest that all my liberal and moderate friends listen as well. This is life changing information.
This morning, at approximately 6:30 est, CNN, in a breaking news story, reported that Mayor Bloomberg along with Brookfield had announced that the eviction will be delayed, leaving the protestors free, for the moment, to continue their fight by lawfully demonstrating and occupying Wall Street. Wall Street is alive with cheers this early Friday morning.
On October 5, 2011, I was alerted to a little article in Feministing wherein the author referred to the situation being discussed as a ‘clusterf**k.’ This got my immediate attention–thinking perhaps Dad was sending me a message–and I discovered that due to budget cuts, Shawnee County’s (Topeka) District Attorney, Chad Taylor, would no longer be prosecuting misdemeanors, including domestic violence cases.
Gather up your kids, wrap their heads in tin foil, activate any and all parental control blocking devices and maybe they’ll be safe from Glenn Beck’s new children’s program ‘Liberty Treehouse.’
I realized I was losing my allegiance at the beginning of the past decade following the Supreme Court’s involvement in the infamous decision of Bush v. Gore and that my oath was of no import to me as recently as January 21, 2010
