Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will join talks at the White House on Thursday about gun control and safety. After December’s Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, which President Barack Obama called the worst day of his presidency, he asked Biden to come up with a broad range of ideas to curb the nation’s gun violence. On Thursday, Biden will meet with [...]

After this last election cycle and everything I have heard from the GOP…it seems to me that they feel like women are only good for reproducing and taking care of their homes. According to them, women are not even good at making decisions about their own bodies. The war on women continues…Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), [...]

As the nation braces itself to hit the debt limit as early as February 15, Congress is as gridlocked as ever. Republican lawmakers are now suggesting they will resist raising the debt ceiling, risking a government shutdown and a default on U.S. credit. The last fight over the debt ceiling in August 2011 led to an unprecedented downgrade of U.S. credit [...]

 “This is historically unprecedented.  Never before has the public weighed in on who should be secretary of the treasury of the United States.” ~Mark Weisbrot, economist and Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Paul Krugman is by far my favorite economist.  When it came to the economy – he [...]

“We can’t go on like this anymore.  I don’t want to get rid of the filibuster, but I have to tell you, I want to change the rules and make the filibuster meaningful.” ~Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)  If you don’t understand the filibuster – you need to watch the video of Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) [...]

On Monday President Obama nominated former Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and top White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to be CIA director. This is Obama’s latest move to round out his second-term national security team following his nomination of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Hagel, who earned [...]

As we have said HERE – Republicans are lying to you about the debt ceiling.  Republican idol – President Ronald Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times and he understood that this wasn’t an optional issue.  Today – Reagan would be a Democrat.  If Republicans block raising the debt ceiling – the whole world will [...]

 ”We need a common sense solution to fix the flawed interpretation of the Constitution’s citizenship clause, and ‘The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2013′ does just that.  The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of ‘anchor babies’ must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is [...]

Conservatives like to talk about the debt as if it were about to crush the American economy into oblivion; after all – the U.S. has accumulated more than $16 TRILLION with a T in debt.  That’s pretty scary and conservatives will talk about America’s impending Greece moment.  But forgetting all the Keynesian arguments for why [...]

If you’re following the debt ceiling debacle – you have no doubt asked yourself if Republicans are really crazy and reckless enough to sabotage the American economy by failing to raise the debt ceiling for the first time in American history.  One of the favorite talking points by Republicans is that in order for there [...]