School sponsored prayer has been unconstitutional for years, but a new bill in the Florida Senate would circumvent the Constitution by allowing student government to vote for the kind of school prayer they want over the objections of religious minorities.
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When a teenager stands up for her Constitutional right to not have Christianity forced on her, the all too predictable out pour of hate and rage from those that claim to love Jesus is sure to follow.
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Disillusionment with the status quo – combined with the buzzwords swirling around a Libertarian campaign – often strikes just the right chord with frustrated American voters. But while the concept of a Libertarian presidency does have its appeal, there are inherent problems that outweigh the positives.
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SOPA poses a danger to the internet as we know it. Basically, under SOPA, an accusation of copyright violation is enough to allow the Department of Justice and any complainant who gets a court order, to shut down a website and websites that facilitate copyright infringement.
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New Hampshire Republicans are taking it a step further and bypass the Constitution entirely. They want to require all bills to cite a sentence from the Magna Carta itself.
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Here are 31 quotes that prove how ignorant, fanatical, heartless, and dangerous Rick Santorum is.
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If there is one candidate in the Republican Presidential field that absolutely hates homosexuals, it’s Rick Santorum. He has never missed out on an opportunity to bash gays and same-sex marriage and he would just love to acquiesce to the demands of the extreme Christian Right.
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The National Defense Authorization Act is now law. President Obama signed the controversial piece of legislation on Saturday despite calls from progressives, lawyers, generals, law enforcement agencies and officials, civil rights groups, and civil libertarians for him to veto it.
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It seems many of us have forgotten the Occupy Movement. While we gear up for Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still in the streets, protesting Wall Street and fighting for social justice. To that end, OccupyMarines have renewed their vow to defend the protesters from the brutality of police forces across the country.
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During the last GOP Debate of the year, Newt Gingrich stated that he would abolish federal courts and judges that make decisions he disagrees with. Gingrich took this unconstitutional idea a step further during a conference call with reporters by saying that he would blatantly ignore Supreme Court rulings that he disagreed with as well.
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Newt Gingrich declared war against the nation’s courts on Thursday during the GOP debate in Sioux City, Iowa. After host Megyn Kelly asked him about the viability of his proposed plan to gut the judiciary branch, Gingrich said that as President he would abolish any court and get rid of any judge that makes a decision that he disagrees with.
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On Sunday, during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox, Perry gave the Christian Right more red meat when he expressed his undying support for a constitutional amendment for prayer in schools.
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Anti-abortion fanatics have really had a field day since Republicans took over the House of Representatives, several governorships, and many state legislatures. Anti-abortion laws are being proposed and passed in every red state and even the U.S. House has passed anti-women and anti-contraceptive bills.
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Not too long ago, Addicting Info reported that the US Senate was voting on S. 1867, a bill that would allow the military to arrest Americans on American soil and hold them indefinitely.
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What? You thought it would never happen here? I have some bad news for you…
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This week, the United States Senate passed S. 1867 also known as the National Defense Authorization Act including sections 1031 and 1032 which authorize the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without trial or charge.
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On Tuesday, the United States Senate, by a vote of 60 to 38, voted down the Udall Amendment, which would have deleted a controversial provision in the National Defense Authorization Act that allows the military to arrest and lock up Americans indefinitely without charge or trial.
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On Monday or Tuesday, the US Senate will vote on a bill that would give the President the ability to order the military to arrest and imprison American citizens anywhere in the world for an indefinite period of time.
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On Saturday during a town hall, deadbeat dad and Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh said that veterans who have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the greed of big banks and income disparity are ‘anti-American,’ and don’t ‘represent America.’
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During an appearance at Johns Hopkins University, Occupy Baltimore protesters interrupted a speech by Karl Rove. Protesters yelled ‘Mic check!’ from among the audience and said , ‘Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!’ That’s when Rove flipped out and began yelling at the protesters.
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