Should voting be mandated? I posed this question on my Facebook page a while back and was surprised with the answers. Most people said “no” and asked how it would be enforced. The reasons for the “no” answers were: “It would be like a dictatorship,” and that “We have the right to free speech and […]
I see a lot of liberals underestimating Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes (KY) and it is really starting to piss me off. Whether it is about the Democratic Party pulling funding, Chuck Todd saying she disqualified herself by refusing disclose who she voted for in 2012, or the everyday people commenting about her on […]
When Liberals Vote, Liberals Win. It really is that simple and that is why these 5 senators put the smackdown on Republican voter suppression efforts. Concerned about Republican led efforts to suppress the vote, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) tasked the non-partisan […]
State laws that make voters show IDs at polling places have put a price on ballot access and eroded turnout – especially among African Americans, young people and recently-registered voters – a non-partisan congressional watchdog concluded. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office report also found scant evidence of voter fraud that the new […]
In the ongoing Republican War On Women, New Hampshire state Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R) wrote a mean-spirited and nasty blog post saying, “Let’s be honest. Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin? And I hope I haven’t offended sin. If looks really matter and if this race is at […]