Media reports often alert us of a Republican effort to “chip away” at abortion rights. That “chip away” metaphor cannot survive the facts, particularly at the state level wherever the GOP controls the legislature and governorship. As the Guttmacher Institute reports cited above reveal, in those
Michael Matthew Bloomer, May 20, 2013, 10:31 pm UPDATE: Sadly, as of 10:04 pm Eastern Time, Oklahoma City’s NewsChannel 4 reported: MOORE, Okla. – Officials said they are no longer working a search and rescue...
Today, the White House responded to a spate of petitions from southern states whose signatories sought permission for their states to “peacefully” leave the union. In a letter from informing the signatories, Jon Carson,...
Michael Matthew Bloomer, January 3, 2013 Of the 427 votes cast, including one for “Present,” Eric Cantor nearly pulled off a palace coup by defeating John Boehner for the Speakership of the 113th Congress...
December 30, 2012 . . . NOTE: This posting is a republication of a piece I wrote in December 2011. It has application to the present “fiscal cliff” negotiations that some believe will result in...
Three Days Until Fiscal Cliff — Will A House Progressive Uprising Scuttle A Deal? By Michael Matthew Bloomer, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Deadlines imminent! Tea Party cooperation missing! Economy jeopardized! Progressives restive! Obama miffed!...
Bigotry masquerading as freedom and liberty In the midst of the political discussion of LGBT rights newly energized by Mitt Romney’s high school “high jinks” directed at a classmate suspected of being gay, last...
