Nancy Pelosi, House Dem leaders brainstorm ways to restore Voting Rights Act...
Photo via Richard Ellis/Getty Images Thank you Nancy Pelosi, for moving quickly to try to undo the damage that the Supreme Court inflicted on democracy. Key word: try. Unfortunately, there is no easy...
View ArticleVideo- Tony Perkins on DOMA Decision: "Leads To Lawlessness"
Crazed gheys roaming the country!!! Via. The post Video- Tony Perkins on DOMA Decision: "Leads To Lawlessness" appeared first on The Political Carnival.
View ArticleMilitary Intelligence? Humanity? Actually, Yes.
Who do you turn to for wisdom regarding gender equality and civil rights? The military? Hardly. But maybe we should give them another look-see. The other night, Rachel Maddow had an amazing convo with...
View ArticleBoth sides say Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality could doom state laws
Watch as Rachel Maddow and David Gregory destroy the GOP’s last argument against marriage equality: Justice Kennedy addressed that issue specifically in his ruling. He says that by denying marriage...
View ArticleCartoons of the Day- Voting Rights Act Gutted
Mike Luckovich David Horsey Rob Rogers The post Cartoons of the Day- Voting Rights Act Gutted appeared first on The Political Carnival.
View ArticleVideo Mid Day Distraction- Rare Fourth of July Fire Rainbow In Indiana
"Fire Rainbow" seen in Fort Wayne Hmmm, seems SOMEONE was happy about the SCOTUS decisions last week. Via. The post Video Mid Day Distraction- Rare Fourth of July Fire Rainbow In Indiana appeared...
View ArticleCartoons of the Day- Strict Biblical View
Chan Lowe David Fitzsimmons Clay Bennett The post Cartoons of the Day- Strict Biblical View appeared first on The Political Carnival.
View ArticleAnother Upchuckable Week: A Week in Despicable News
Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts. You can link over to her site here for the entire post. It’s well worth a look: Another Upchuckable Week -...
View ArticleVIDEO: Atty. Gen. Holder to challenge states on voting rights
THANK you: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As Pete Williams just said on MSNBC, the cop is still on the beat, and you don't get a free pass now, despite the...
View ArticleWorried about non-existent voter fraud? Fine. Make Voter IDs free and easy to...
The Los Angeles Times put out an editorial today called "The Voting Rights Disaster." "Disaster" is an understatement. Weakening the Voting Rights Act was a punch in the gut to democracy, to civil...
View ArticleJustice [sic] Scalia: “It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities...
Newsflash!! The courts can actually invent new minorities! Like magic! Or so believes Supreme Court "Justice" Scalia. Have we finally concluded that the words "justice" and "Scalia" should never be...
View ArticleJustice Dep't. files lawsuit against Texas voter ID law
The Voter I.D. laws (AKA poll taxes) that GOP-run states are implementing are completely unnecessary, because voter fraud is nearly non-existent. But they do prevent voters from voting. Especially...
View ArticleInfographic: "A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy...
President Clinton gave a terrific speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington which included this memorable sentence: "A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than...
View ArticleWhat Citizens United ruling unleashed: More polarization, massive cashing in...
Has your inbox been filled with eleventy-thousand urgent!! fundraising emails in the past few days? Have you watched Republican after Republican on the Tee Vee Machine blaming President Obama for not...
View ArticleJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “I think it’s going to be another Democratic...
Via a WaPo Magazine titled, "The question facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Stay or go?"... So Ginsburg understands politics but does not feel she faces a deadline to leave so that Obama, whom she admires,...
View ArticleBill Moyers Calls Out the GOP -- And Good
There's something about the congenial way newsman and journalist Bill Moyers captures the essence of what's going on around him -- soft spoken, folksy and stingingly right on. He's blessed with acute...
View ArticleWhat next? Ruling that corporations can pray? Brace yourselves.
The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has thrown a huge wrench into what's left of our democracy by allowing corporations to have the same rights as people to have their voices heard, giving...
View ArticleVIDEO: The most important election you haven't heard of
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Chris Hayes: In August, [the mayor of Pasadena, Texas] started pushing a plan to shrink the number of districts from eight...
View ArticleTop Republican: Go ahead Dems, change filibuster rules. Then GOP can appoint...
UPDATE via a Politico email alert: Senate Republicans blocked the nomination of Nina Pillard to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, escalating the fight over President Barack Obama's judicial...
View ArticleRepublicans Accuse Obama of Court Packing While They're Guilty Of Packing By...
Remember George Castanza in Seinfeld. He was embarrased when Jerry's girlfriend Rachel walks in on him and his naked "manhood?" He tried to explain he just got out of a cold swim and he was...
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