Judson Phillips, president of Tea Party Nation, is a little upset about Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s decision last night to veto a bill that would have expanded the ability of business owners to discriminate against LGBT people and others,” according to Right Wing Watch. His comments appear to be a rant from someone infuriated by not being encouraged by law to discriminate…
Category: Current Events
Arizona Lawmakers Pass Bill to Allow Faith-based Refusal of Services
“Arizona lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 to a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to customers when such work would violate their religious beliefs, in a move critics describe as a license to discriminate against gays and others,” according to Reuters. First of all, I would never try to give my money to someone who…
Congressional Inaction
With polls indicating that Congressional approval ratings are in the single digits, it would help Speaker Boehner to understand that preventing development of regulation and blocking the President’s agenda, which the majority of Americans support, are not accomplishments. Preventing things from happening is not action, it’s inaction. And inaction is not what the American people pay him and his colleagues…
“As Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500”
This New York Times article, part of a series, helps illustrate, in my humble opinion, why people need insurance, why the United States needs the ACA, and why people who insist, “We should repeal the ACA and not do anything differently in the United States healthcare industry because everything is great” are simply wrong.
A Republican Ransom Note
The New York Times, on Thursday, September 26, wrote an excellent editorial on the ridiculous Republican demands.
Unnecessary Anti-Abortion Law in Texas
It is too bad that the Texas legislature is implementing laws regulating abortion providers that are not necessary: “Rep. Jody Laubenberg, insisted the bill is intended “to protect the health and safety of every woman who undergoes an abortion.” Under questioning from Rep. Jessica Farrar, she refused to answer whether the state had data to show that women need the…
The Keystone XL Pipeline — “Great Idea!”
There are several hurdles that oil companies in Canada have to overcome in order to build pipelines from the source of tar sands oil in Alberta, Canada, to either Canada’s eastern or western coast, where it could be refined, sold and exported to Asia, Europe and elsewhere around the world. From a New York Times article, “Indigenous groups must be…
Gay People and Ugly Bigotry
To those who favor discrimination (employment, familial, religious, civil/legal, financial, marital, etc.) against gay people: The bigotry that some heterosexual people feel and demonstrate against gay people is absolutely no different than the historical bigotry many white people have felt and demonstrated against black people, or other ethnic groups. Ever heard of the Three-Fifths Compromise? It said that black people…
Guns in America
I agree with people who believe that law-abiding people should not have to exert extraordinary efforts to protect themselves from people who would harm them with guns. It is fairly obvious that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Part of this “people need to defend themselves” rhetoric comes from the NRA and its surrogates. And it’s…
Reporting on Mitt Romney in October
According to reporting by The Nation, Mitt Romney and his wife benefited to the tune of millions of dollars through the auto industry bailout that he railed against. According to Forbes, there is so much that Romney has not shared about how he would like to see the $5 trillion tax cut he has proposed be paid for that it is…