- Mexican Congress Rushes to Pass Regressive Labor Law
- The debate comes on the heels of the February Global Days of Action, during which 50,000 activists from more than 40 countries came out to protest the systemic violation of labor rights in Mexico and inadequate labor laws.
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- Poll: Miss. Republicans think inter-racial marriage should be illegal | AMERICAblog News – John Aravosis
- 46% of Mississippi Republicans say inter-racial marriage should be illegal, to 40% who say it should be legal, in a new PPP poll (and they're a seriously legit polling outfit). And it seems Palin does better with the racist crowd.
…what's really sick is that 46% of Republicans were willing to admit to a stranger (pollster) that they don't approve of the mingling of the races. Imagine how high the REAL number is.
- Reid is right: Republican shutdown looms | The Hill – Brent Budowsky
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is absolutely right. If the government shuts down it will be solely and exclusively the responsibility of Republicans who would rather shut down the government than agree to a good-faith compromise with the president and Democrats.
Reid and Democrats have offered to meet Republicans more than halfway. …
This is not the time for Republicans to attack reproductive rights, National Public Radio, Planned Parenthood or clean air or to wage any of their many holy wars.
- Black Panther case entirely bogus | The Plum Line
- A just-released copy of the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility report on the New Black Panther case shows the core allegations at the heart of this tale to be completely false.
Previously, the OPR had only released a letter detailing the findings in the probe . But OPR just sent a copy of the full report to Capitol Hill, and it shows more conclusively than ever that this whole story has been completely baseless from the outset.
Conservatives have alleged two things for months — that the NBPP case was narrowed because of political pressure from Obama administration leadership, and that there is a hostility in the division towards pursuing voting rights cases on behalf of whites. The OPR report however, tells a different story…
- Can Boehner Really Deliver? | Talking Points Memo – David Kurtz
- Just a quick observation on the budget talks. There's a difference between being a negotiator and having the authority to negotiate, and I'm starting to wonder if Speaker Boehner has full negotiating authority from the House GOP conference. It's a big difference, and it can affect how negotiations proceed.
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