http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 17:40:53 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:40:53 Sign the Petition to Stop the Republican Gerrymander!

We asked you to sign the Senate Bill 5 petition. We asked you to sign the petition to repeal the voter suppression bill. And now… you guessed it… we need you to add your signature to another petition. This one is to repeal HB 319 - the Republi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/151 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:35:06 by Lemony SnicketThirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance

1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/150 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:42:19 Exclusive: Goldman Sachs VP Changed His Name, Now Advances Goldman Lobbying Interests As Top Staffer To Darrell Issa
By Lee Fang on Aug 18, 2011 at 3:21 am


Peter Haller, also known as Peter Simonyi, a former Goldman Sachs VP now working for Chairman Issa to block regulations on Goldman Sachs
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/149 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:05:28 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio Gov. John Kasich and top Republican lawmakers said Wednesday they're offering to weaken a new law limiting collective bargaining in an attempt to keep a repeal effort off the November ballot.

Kasich's administration released a letter asking for a meeting Friday to discu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/148 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:05:58 Newt Gingrich had second line of credit at Tiffany and Co.
By Chris Cillizza

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has stumbled badly out of the starting gate. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Former House speaker Newt Gingrich had a second line of credit at the high-e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/147 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:23:00

After twenty-five years of marriage, Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that they were separating last week. According to the Los Angeles Times, the woman with whom Schwarzenegger fathered a child worked for his family for twenty years until last January.

"After leaving the governor'... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/146 Tue, 17 May 2011 14:12:41 Making Guantanamo Permanent, and Other Portents
By: Jeff Kaye Thursday May 12, 2011 6:00 am

Guantanamo Sunset on the American Empire (JTF Guantanamo photo: U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Gino Reyes)A motley crew of Senate Republicans, joined by Sen. Lieberman, have introduced a bill to make Guan... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/145 Thu, 12 May 2011 09:24:48 Repubs..........Hate the Word Uterus

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Twitter was abuzz with snark, satire and hashtag games this week, exposing the immaturity of certain Floridian law makers. What is particularly ironic is that, on the last day of Women’s Histo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/144 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:01:00 I'd like to ask Mr. Obama what adjustments the Rich have had to make. Instead they were rewarded with another TAX CUT!!!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/143 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:18:14 The GOP spending cuts have been criticized again.

A Goldman Sachs economist has warned that the $60 billion package of spending cuts proposed by the Republicans to counter President Obama's proposal could slow economic growth.

And if budget wrangling between the Obama administration and the Re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/142 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:36:35 by Stuart Shapiro

Last week it was Ohio Governor John Kasich. Before that, Governor Paul LePage of Maine. Now Governor Rick Scott of Florida is giving voters reason to think they may have been overly hasty when voting for him in November.

Gov. Rick Scott may have broken state law with his sa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/141 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:12:10 Study Shows Most Corporations Have Skipped Paying Taxes While conservatives whine about paying too much in taxes and hate that their tax dollars go to help the less fortunate. a study by the Government Accountability Office shows that most corporations, foreign and domestic, have evaded paying their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/140 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:17:35 when I see our Military recalled from around the world. When I see the US Government stop giving away billions in tax cuts
to the rich. When all Military/Industrial contracts are nulled and VOID!!!!!!!!!!! When all Taxpayer monies are no longer
disbursed in the "Faith Initiative Program" When Re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/139 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:43:55 Republicans Wave Bible; Why Not Democrats?
by Gabe Berman

Gabe is the author of Live Like a Fruit Fly.


As soon as I learned my ABCs, my dad began clipping out articles for me to read from the New York Times. But ever since my parents became snowbirds, I see a fair share of cutout columns o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/138 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:04:10 Egyptian Protests
Thursday, Feb 3, 2011 07:30 ET
War Room Meet Mubarak's American fan club
By Justin Elliott

Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt as a brutal dictator for 30 years, barring basic rights like freedom of speech and assembly and regularly employing torture to suppress political op... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/137 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:15:36 By James Kwak

Sometime this spring, Congress is going to have to raise the debt ceiling or the federal government will face default. Republicans are going to demand many, many pounds of flesh in exchange, ranging from cuts in discretionary spending to rethinking of entitlement programs, which tog... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/136 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:25:20 Published: January 21, 2011 @ 6:13 pm

It was Keith Olbermann's decision to leave his high-profile perch at MSNBC, TheWrap has learned. The outspoken host abruptly announced his departure on Friday evening, sending shock waves through the cable news world. But the sudden departure has a history, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/135 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:37:44 In the new NBC/WSJ poll:Obama’s approval is at 53% (where he hasn’t been since before those summer town halls in ‘09, that’s 18 months ago); confidence that the economy will improve in the next 12 months jumped eight points from last month; and the Dem Party’s fav/unfav went from a net negative (37%... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/134 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:38:39 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/133 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:18:59 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all


Don’t Look Back
Darrell Issa, the congressman about to make life more difficult for President Obama, has had some troubles of his own.
by Ryan Lizza
January 24, 2011
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/132 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:33:25 How Health Care Is Now Better In 2011 Because Of The Affordable Care Act Major health care reforms have kicked in with the new year. For one thing, insurance companies have to spend at least 80% of of monies the receive from premiums on actual health care, not salaries or overhead. And senior citiz... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/131 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:00:45 http://healthreform.kff.org/timeline.aspx













Repeal this?????? Oh how they hate the facts!!!!!!!!!!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/130 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:56:21 They pretty much look at us and those of us complaining about getting reduced unemployment benefits while the wealthy got an early $801 billion present from Obama and Congress as this tramp determined to have Christmas by stealing from someone else.

We're hobos for wanting back some of those unem... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/129 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:11:11 The US has over 100 military bases in Germany alone. These bases may have made sense when we feared a Soviet attack on Western Europe, but the Cold War ended 20 years ago. Why is American taxpayers' money being spent on bases that stimulate the economy of Germany, while defending NATO against a thr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/128 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:12:00 and I believed it all


Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day

There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the pu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/samplegirl/127 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:22:11