On health care reform: this is a good bill Yesterday, I voiced my support for health care reform with an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. I am grateful to those who saw my speaking-out for what it was: a former legislator reaching out to Congress to step up and solve one of our nation’s […]

  The New Rove-Cheney Assault on Reality By FRANK RICH Published: March 13, 2010 THE opening salvo, fired on Fox News during Thanksgiving week, aroused little notice: Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, declared that “we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.” Rudy Giuliani upped the […]

Liberals & Progressives: Keep the pressure. Victory for the American people is very close. Those fighting for the well being of just the few are in full panic mode and as any one knows this is when the rabid do the unthinkable. Keep your heads on and be ready.   Viewers are encouraged to subscribe and […]

I think Glen Beck has just committed a cardinal sin. He messed with the church in a manner that he had no right to and they will make him pay for it lest he apologizes with his tail between his legs and promises not to do it again. Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus? Posted […]

  Washington (CNN) — Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question. Leaders of the fledgling movement say they plan to hold 350 to 400 events at coffeehouses across the country. While the Coffee Party has become an instant […]

The Right has always attempted to portray themselves as the law and order party that best knew how to protect the country. Of course the largest terrorists attack on our country that caused more deaths than any terrorist attack ever occurred under their watch. Their policies of torture and unadulterated and indiscriminate aggression failed to […]

  The head of the national association of Catholic hospitals, which holds great sway in the health care debate, threw her support Saturday behind the contested Senate reform bill in a move that could give a major boost to the legislation’s prospects. But the endorsement of Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, […]

  Twenty-five pro-life Catholic theologians and Evangelical leaders yesterday sent letters to members of Congress urging them not to let misleading information about abortion provisions in the Senate health care bill block passage of sorely-needed reform. Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a Washington-based advocacy group, said that the Senate health bill upholds abortion […]

The Final March for Reform is going strong — yesterday, OFA supporters made the phones ring off the hook in Congressional offices on Capitol Hill and across the country. But for every member of Congress, there are eight anti-reform lobbyists swarming Capitol Hill — and the upcoming vote is still too close to call. So […]

  Meet the people who are percolating in the Coffee Party By Jessica Ravitz, CNN March 12, 2010 10:17 a.m. EST Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — In one chair sits a rural retiree, his financial security shot in the slump, a humble Southerner who’s never thought much about politics. In another seat is a born Northerner, […]