The United States House of Representatives currently has 21 congressional committees; 20 standing committees and one select committee. All but three committees, the Budget Committee, the Ethics Committee, and the House Administration Committee, are subdivided into subcommittees, each with its… Read More ›
Everything that is Federally governed starts with a law in the US and is legislated by the US Congress. As the population grew following the legislation/law, details emerge that are also addressed either with supplementary legislation or a new law. All… Read More ›
Not the police, mind you, but the campus cops at Ohio State University now possess an MRAP; that is, a $500,000, 18-ton, mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicle of a sort used in the war in Afghanistan and, as Hunter Stuart of the… Read More ›
By Jessica Mason The United States could be on the verge of calling its first constitutional convention since 1787, and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or “ALEC,” has been working behind the scenes to make it happen, including through its… Read More ›
I’ve always been baffled about the misconceptions surrounding the word “anarchism”. I visualize everything into a story (storyartist), and on the word anarchism I picture rich white men like William Randolph Hearst sitting around a carved rich-wood table scheming how… Read More ›
A breach in a tailings pond from the open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine sent five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) ofslurry gushing into Hazeltine Creek in B.C. That’s the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic swimming pools of waste,… Read More ›
By Joshua Holland …it’s important to recall that the first Gulf War was sold to the public on a pack of lies that were just as egregious as those told by the second Bush administration 12 years later. The Lie… Read More ›
Some American citizens believe that the Federal Government should not regulate any state or business. The video above is an example of why both Federal and State Government Regulations are important. If we want clean safe water, a beautiful state, a healthy environment, regulating corporate… Read More ›
National Republicans have waged an unrelenting campaign to exploit every weakness and anachronism in our electoral system. Through a combination of hyperpartisan redistricting of the House, unprecedented obstructionism in the Senate and racist voter suppression in the states, today’s GOP… Read More ›
I’ve recently Friended Bruce Bacon from a mutual progressive facebook group, and this article was published from one of his posts. It’s long, but concise, to the point, and weaves together all the pieces which I believe to be true… Read More ›
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