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Blog Post Archive
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Bringing Justice To Victims Of Sexual Assault In The Military
I was outraged by the news earlier this week that the coordinator of the Army's program to prevent sexual assault at Fort Hood in Texas...
Christopher Bergin: Scandal, Scandal, Scandal
To paraphrase John Wayne in McClintock: Now, let's all calm down. In Washington, they throw the word scandal around with such abandon it's hard to...
Sam Dorison: Guantanamo in Context
The average detainee at Guantánamo has been held there for over nine years. Nine years ago Barack Obama was serving his first term as Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee in the Illinois Senate.
Wendy N. Powell: The Tax Man Targeting our Right to Diversity of Thought
We all have skin in this game to maintain our liberties. It is an ironic turn of events that the very issue of inappropriate scrutiny of our liberties is now the focus of the IRS by the public, media, elected officials; even the ACLU has raised its head.
Richard Brodsky: Impeaching Obama: Serial Madness In Washington
The litany of Congressional Republican nuttiness in the past twenty years is impressive. Think back on assertions that Hilary Clinton was involved in murdering Vince...
Jeremy Bird: South Carolina Not a Real 'Comeback' Story
If South Carolina - and other states - want a government that represents the will of the voters, they need to follow this example. Only then will we have a government in which voters choose their representatives, rather than the other way around.
Billy Shore: SNAP + SNAP Ed = Smart Policy
The powerful effect that SNAP and SNAP-Ed can have on a family is a story best told not by me but by a woman who has been a part of our No Kid Hungry campaign, Lareese.
Donald Carr: Tea For Me, Not For You
By virtually eliminating risk, crop insurance subsidies are encouraging farmers to plow up wetlands and prairies, a trend that is increasing water pollution, releasing more carbon into the atmosphere and destroying wildlife habitat.
Tim Profeta: The Climate Post: Carbon Dioxide Milestone Revised by NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii surpassed the milestone 400 parts per million for a sustained period.
Miranda Pacchiana: Fear and Love in Newtown
Since the shooting at Sandy Hook School, I admit there have been moments when I've had the fleeting urge to run away and escape from the sadness and pain in my town.
Robert David Jaffee: Shedding Stigma of Mental Illness Within the Military
While I recognize that the military is a unique institution with its own codes of conduct and ethos, this policy, tacit though it may be, of stigmatizing mental illness has got to end.
Tom Carpenter: If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it-But it is Broke!
By removing the power of the "convening authority" from commanding generals any appearance of impropriety on the part of a commander is eliminated. Claims of undue command influence in the legal system would stop.
Hal Donahue: Gunmen, Robbery and Obamacare
Fearing someone may get something for nothing and scam the system, we punish the least among us who deserve respect and contribute to society as best they are able.
David Dent: Second Term Hell: Obama's Dante Days in Bush-Obama America
Every U.S. president should visit a Blackjack table in Atlantic City sometime in the first term. It should happen just as they are in the middle of those Dreams From Your Ego, which promise bright new hopes if they can only win that second term.
Darryl Woodard: Asymmetrical Warfare: For all Americans a 21st Century Challenge
The United States is now the sole technological super power in the world, and spends far more on defense than any other nation in the world. America had spent $711 billion on the War on Terror which also included the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and the brief involvement in Libya.
Deborah Burger: Hospitals Should Be Care Providers Not Loan Sharks
If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the rampant price gouging in the healthcare industry that continues to price too many Americans out of access to care and into financial ruin.
Mike Lux: Which Side is the Government On?
In my 33 year and counting career in politics, I have done my share of both candidate campaigning and issue campaigning. In the last 15...
Rep. Gwen Moore: GOP "Cost-Benefit" Bill Benefits Wall Street and Costs Americans
Republicans again have it all wrong on the substance and politics as they bring to the House floor the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, or the...
Rev. Chuck Currie: Star Trek Demands Path Out Of The Darkness
"Star Trek Into Darkness" does what Star Trek has always done best: holds up a mirror to the United States and asks, "Are we the moral people we want to be?"
Tom Fox: Why we serve
Federal employees have different reasons for choosing a career in public service. Some have been influenced by personal experiences or external events. Some have followed...