Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:20 pm

  Tags: Government Policy

  There were quite a few offensive Supreme Court rulings this year, but one of the more surprising decisions was in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, in which the court ruled 5 to 4 (natch) that workers who face wage discrimination only have 180 days to challenge the initial discrimination in court. (Slate's Richard Thompson Ford explained the case quite well

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• Support For Troop Withdrawal By Congressional District

  Published: August 1, 2007, 7:41 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, The House, Iraq

  Chris Bowers at OpenLeft has some statistics for those Blue Dog Democrats that Rep. Clyburn seems to be worried about. Are you in those districts? Please, contact your Congresscritter and get your voice heard. Be calm, have your facts at hand and make sure that they know they are supposed to be representing you.

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• Senate OKs expanded Children's Health Program

  Published: August 3, 2007, 9:01 pm

  Tags: Health Science, Government Policy, The Senate

  move more people toward government-run health care. The Senate measure now must be reconciled with the House-passed $50 billion expansion, which was paid for partly by cutting government payments to Medicare health maintenance organizations. The vote (68-31) is important to note, because Bush had threatened to veto the bill. I’m just

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• Senate Democrats Cave - Agree To Give Bush More Power To Spy On Americans Than Ever Before

  Published: August 4, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Intelligence Gathering, George W Bush

  closer court supervision of government surveillance. Earlier in the day, President Bush threatened to hold Congress in session into its scheduled summer recess if it did not approve the changes he wanted. The legislation, which is expected to go before the House today, would expand the government’s authority to intercept without a court

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• Under the Bridge

  Published: August 4, 2007, 9:05 pm

  Tags: Rachel Maddow, Government Policy, Countdown Keith Olbermann

  that hates and demeans government. And that has defined any sort of spending on anything for the common good as something that’s soft-headed and suspect. And it’s a brand of conservatism that goes back to you know, Reagan’s first inaugural where he defined government as the problem, and to Barry Goldwater before him and

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• Saving Soldiers' Jobs

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Supporting Our Troops

  I am the daughter of a military brat. My dad’s father was a career officer. Respect for the military and the institutions surrounding it are in my blood. And I am just so sickened by the empty rhetoric of “supporting our troops.” I’m just so happy that my grandpop is no longer around to see how disgustingly this

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• President Bush Wants Power To Immunize Telecoms That Aid In Spying On Americans

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:48 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Intelligence Gathering, George W Bush

  that cooperate with government wiretapping. However, he used complicated language to describe these activities. “When Congress returns in September the Intelligence committees and leaders in both parties will need to complete work on the comprehensive reforms requested by Director McConnell, including the important issue of

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• CREW Files Complaint Against Rep. John Boehner For Possible Leak Of Classified Information

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Oversight, Gop, Government Policy, Intelligence Gathering, The House

  Via CREW: Today, CREW filed a complaint with the Department of Justice asking that the Counterespionage Section of the National Security Division initiate an investigation into whether House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-OH) violated the law by leaking classified information. Our complaint can be found here. In a July 31, 2007 interview

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• The You Work For Us Summer Tour

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:03 pm

  Tags: Progressive Politics Action, Government Policy

  Emotions are running high right now…there’s a lot of justifiable anger out in the blogosphere (or blogtopia, for skippy). The question now falls to you how you want to manage that anger. I see a lot of disgust that I fear will result in low voter turnout. I see a lot of ranting and raving on comment threads. But rather than

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• Crossing that bridge when we get to it

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:02 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, Taxes

  Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has been a favorite of the Grover Norquist crowd for quite a while, in part because of his fealty to the far-right agenda on taxes and spending. But once in a while, reality gets in the way of conservative talking points. In the past two years, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota twice vetoed legislation to raise the

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• Steve Skvara From Last Night's AFL-CIO Candidate Forum On Hardball

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Debates, Election 08, Health Science, Government Policy, Campaigns Elections

  Retired steel worker, Steve Skvara, who told his unfortunate and heartfelt story of how he lost his health care last night at the AFL-CIO Democratic candidate forum, appeared on “Hardball” today. Skvara, despite being asked a few dumb questions and being talked over by Chris Matthews, does a fine job of explaining his current

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• Go Read.

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: Government Policy, The Senate, Committees, Rubber Stamp Congress

  Looks like the Senate Judiciary Committee has some ’splainin’ to do. Wrong. Very, Very Wrong.

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• What ramifications will leaked Red Cross report have?

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Government Policy, Scandals, Torture

  around the world-or else governments wouldn’t let them in. But The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer has sources who have seen accounts of the Red Cross interviews with inmates formerly held in CIA secret prisons. In “The Black Sites” (August 13, The New Yorker), Mayer also reveals the effect on our torturers of what they do-on

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• George Will Doesn't Think Economy Will Be An Issue In 2008

  Published: September 2, 2007, 10:02 pm

  Tags: Abc, Government Policy, Economy, This Week George Stephanopoulos

  On this morning’s This Week right wing talker George Will, The American Prospect’s Robert Reich and Matthew Bai of The New York Times made up the round table. They were talking economic populism and George Will, in his infinite wisdom, proclaimed that the economy is strong and won’t be an issue in the 2008 election. Quick to

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• White House changes website. Now claims Office of Administration exempt from FOIA.

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:39 pm

  Tags: Ethics, Government Policy, White House

  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Two weeks ago, CREW documented how the White House website conflicted with the Bush administration’s claim that the Office of Administration was not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. On August 23, 2007, the Washington Post took note of the conflict between the

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