Boyd Charges Speaker John Boehner With Wasting Taxpayer Dollars on Nonsense
Common sense and decency seem less and less important to Republicans in the House of Representatives as they continue their shameful conduct toward President Barack Obama for trying to do his job....
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On Israel-Palestine, Restoring Human Worth Is a First Step to Peace
The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it's not shouting. Even when it's just...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week, the spotlight remained on immigration, with President Obama requesting $3.7 billion to deal with the flood of undocumented children crossing the border. As Speaker Boehner fixated on suing...
View ArticleWorld Cup vs. Planet Earth
I like FIFA soccer as much as the next fan. In fact, I often wonder why the marvelous athleticism, dexterity, reflexes, and international color of the game has not led it to catch on any faster in the...
View ArticleHobby Lobby: No Veil, No Precedent, No Multiple Payers?
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court's right-wing majority recently concluded that for-profit corporations are "persons" under the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act ("RFRA")....
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Border Crisis: Palin vs. Obama (Video)
I discussed Sarah Palin's call for the impeachment of President Obama and the causes of the crisis on the US-Mexican border on The Weekend Show with Kenny Shelton Saturday July 12, 2014 on The...
View ArticleBuild a 21st Century Economy? GOP Stalls Even the Highway Bill.
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 with a pledge to end the recession and then build a 21st century full-employment economy. His program: invest big time in America's transportation and energy...
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Will There Be a November Surprise Because GOP House Is on Strike?
LISTEN HERE: By Mark Green We know about the six-year curse, POTUS' polls and vulnerable red-state Democrats. But as jobs and the ACA rebound -- and the House grouses about borders, wages and IUDs --...
View ArticleThe World Financial Cup
If there were poetic justice in the world, Argentina would have beaten Germany in the last three minutes of play instead of vice versa. Germany represents everything that's wrong with the world...
View ArticleLincoln, FDR, and the Power of the Well-Timed Vacation
It's the middle of summer, which means two things: all over the country people are going on vacation, and Washington, D.C. is a mess. Might part of the reason be that, while most people recognize the...
View ArticleBefore Unleashing Gaza-Like Airstrikes on Iraq, Congress Must Vote
In the early hours of Friday morning, Gaza's Ark - the boat preparing to sail from Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade on Palestinian exports - was hit by an Israeli missile and caught fire. When...
View ArticleFrom a Child of a Gay Dad: Who Cares If Gays and Lesbians Make Better Parents?
Last week a new study from Australia reported that children raised by same-sex couples fare even better than those raised in normal biological families. The study cited couples' rejection of normal...
View ArticleI Told You Rick Perry Was Coming Back!
Back in May, I wrote a piece here at the Huffington Post where I said that Rick Perry shouldn't be discounted as a candidate for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2016 and that a few...
View ArticleSupreme Court Protects Pennsylvania Marriage Equality (VIDEO)
A judge in Colorado has delivered what may be the strongest victory yet for marriage equality, while Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rejected a challenge to the freedom to marry in Pennsylvania....
View ArticleAn FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This
The post first appeared on the ACLU blog My name is James Prigoff. I am 86 years old and a retired senior corporate executive, having been president of a Levi Strauss division and previously the senior...
View ArticleLousy Scenarios, Limited Options: It Mostly Just Gets Worse for Obama
Remember those halcyon days of yore, also known as last year, when President Barack Obama's frequently challenged job approval rating was always buttressed by his ratings on foreign policy and...
View ArticleCorporate System v. The American People: How the Supreme Court Is Stealing...
The decision in Bush v. Gore was so disgraceful on the face of it that the Court itself warned against using its "reasoning" in other cases. The five conservative justices elected Bush president. After...
View ArticleBenghazi... Benghazi... Benghazi
How many more millions of taxpayer dollars are the Republicans in the House going to waste on the Benghazi witch hunt? The continuing question Republicans ask is: "Did the Obama administration mislead...
View ArticleBowe Bergdahl and the War
Bowe Bergdahl is a subject of considerable controversy. An American soldier who wandered off from his base in Afghanistan and got captured by the Taliban, after five years American officials secured...
View ArticleFind Out What You're Buying
The issue of government procurement is one that may not rouse the public into mass outrage such as much other pressing political and social problems -- but continue reading and perhaps it will rouse...
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