For the first time in my entire life, July 4th was not a day of celebration for me. Over the past couple of weeks, a combination of the news and real life has battered my natural optimistic nature into what I hope is a temporary state of cynical anger. Between Texas,...
I think we’re all a little war-weary. Let me explain. What launched me into blogging was the buildup to the Iraq war in 2003. A decade later, that’s all my child, born in late 2003, has ever known. That is unacceptable. Except it’s known, and not...
by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand For so many Americans, this year’s elections represent a true turning point. For our middle class and poor families, it’s about whether they’ll continue to have access to the American dream. For our seniors, it’s about whether they’ll...
It’s almost too good to believe, but it’s true! And all the better because we fought hard for it — first through the Affordable Care Act’s passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of...
This timely documentary film will be released in theatres in Canada on February 3, 2012 — just in time to give hard, factual information to millions of people who are disillusioned with the Komen Foundation’s apparent pandering to the anti-choice right....