The wide ranging dimensions of the Obama win have grown since election night. Despite limited gains in the House and Republican gains among governors, Obama’s large lead in the Electoral vote, his majority in the popular vote (51% to 48%) and the upset delivering Democrats a 55 to 45 Senate majority, have re-shaped the political […]
Grover Norquist, founder and President of the lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), famously came up with his notion of keeping politicians to a “no new taxes” pledge at the age of twelve while he was going door to door to get out the vote for President Nixon in 1968. By the time he […]
Questions are being raised about classroom safety with children dying in school and only 17 states providing specific laws protecting students from “harsh, some say barbaric methods of restraint and other techniques” of disciplining special needs children and children with behavioral issues. As ABC Nightline reports, there are serious questions regarding school discipline which has turned deadly on […]
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ~ President Abraham Lincoln: closing words of his Gettysburg Address, delivered on […]
“They are few, but they are vocal: the pro-same-sex marriage, pro-choice, pro-tax Republican activists. For years, these groups have labored off the radar, trying to convince a party unwilling to listen that it needs to moderate on issues from social to fiscal. But after the Democrats’ decisive victories on Nov. 6, the Republican Underground says […]