ALEC Anti-Union Push Includes Key Players From Michigan, Arizona Think Tanks | NationofChange

The American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part because its membership includes major corporations as well as state legislators. Largely unnoticed has been the influence wielded by a third group of ALE …

Preying on the Poor

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully …

New York and Los Angeles City Councils Approve Responsible Banking Ordinances

City councils in the nation’s two largest cities have approved laws aimed at forcing banks to invest more in their local communities. The Los Angeles city council unanimously passed its “responsible banking” ordinance yesterday afternoon; the New Yor …

Inequality or Sustainability? Why Madison Needs Marx | NationofChange

Marx famously said that the bourgeoisie unwittingly produces its own gravediggers. Marx was convinced that capitalism inexorably gives rise to an elite social class whose members create an economy that contains the seeds of its own destruction. The prime movers in Marx's theory …

The 'Patriot' Movement Explodes | Southern Poverty Law Center

By Mark Potok, Senior Fellow The radical right grew explosively in 2011, the third such dramatic expansion in as many years. The growth was fueled by superheated fears generated by economic dislocation, a proliferation of demonizing conspiracy theories, the changing racia …

Intelligence Report Article Provokes Fury Among Men's Rights Activists

The last issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report presented a scathing portrait of “a hard-line fringe” of the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM): “women haters whose fury goes well beyond criticism of the family court system, domestic violence l …

Anti-Gay Activists Adopt a Dubious Model — the Confederacy

Conservatives tend to object when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement, often claiming that LGBT activists are trying to “hijack” a unique moment in American history. It had been our impression here at Hatewatch that this objection was u …

ROMNEY: "I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was."

This morning, the Romney campaign repudiated that plan being hatched by GOP operatives to run millions in ads tying Obama to Jeremiah Wright. But as I noted earlier, Romney himself used Wright to attack Obama during an interview with Sean Hannity in February. Today, Romne …

Judge blocks indefinite military detention provision | Reuters

(Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a recently enacted law's provision that authorizes indefinite military detention for those deemed to have "substantially supported" al Qaeda, the Taliban or "associated forces."   District Judge Katherine Forre …

G.O.P. 'Super PAC' Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama - NYTimes.com

A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attackPresident Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from. Timed  …

Top VAWA Opponents Partnered with Convicted Wife-Beater and Group Tied to Mail Order Bride Firm | rightwingwatch.org

The House of Representatives is poised to pass a hobbled version of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization (VAWA) later today. The House GOP version actually rolls back some current protections and excludes other key protections contained in the Sena …

Barack Obama Teaches Mitt Romney How Humans React When They Do Something Wrong | Mediaite

The Mitt Romney high school bullying story has sent right-wingers into a frenzy of the usual denialsand deflections, but one example of these tactics,advanced by Sean Hannity Thursday night, only serves to reinforce the real problem with Romne …

Even Howard Stern Seems More Capable of Sincere Remorse Than Romney | AlterNet

There's an article in the New York Times today about Howard Stern, who's cut back on his radio shock-jockery (he's no longer on radio five days a week) and is now a judge on America's Got Talent. To Bill Carter of the Times, Stern said this&nb …

NAACP asks feds to block voter ID | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com

The Mississippi NAACP is asking federal officials to block what will likely become the state's new voter ID law, contending it will violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act by diminishing the voting strength of minorities.  Because of Mississippi's history of racial discriminat …

Texas Gets Last Shot for July 9 Trial on Voter Photo Law - Businessweek

Texas was accused by the federal judges weighing the state’s voter identification law of violating court orders over exchange of evidence with the U.S. Justice Department. A three-judge panel in Washington today said Texas has one more chance to meet court-imposed deadli …

Civil rights workers hope to change Mississippi voter ID law | Politics - WAPT Home

A group of civil rights workers are joining forces to try and change the voter ID law in Mississippi. The civil rights leaders believe the new law will take the state backwards.

Kobach concedes Kansas voter-citizenship plan dead - KansasCity.com

Secretary of State Kris Kobach conceded Thursday that Kansas won't require first-time voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship ahead of this year's elections because the Senate's top leader effectively killed the proposal. Kobach, who pushed the proposal, declared it  …

Mitt Romney, American Parasite - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice

James Sanderson had encountered a rare moment of industrial harmony. It was the early 1990s, and the 750 men and women at Georgetown Steel were pumping out wire rods at peak performance. They had an abiding trust in management's ability to run a smart company. That a …

Claim: PA taxpayers footed $234K bill for "corporate front group" that pushes legislation.

Liberal advocacy groups are stepping up their attacks on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), charging this week that the think-tank has been the recipient of tens of thousands of dollars in Pennsylvania taxpayers' money. Citing documents obtained t …

Critical Education Standards Opposed by Conservative Group

Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC—the conservative states’ rights, free markets, and limited government advocacy group—are meeting today in North Carolina, where they are expected to adopt a resolution that will be used as model leg …

MSNBC Panel Chides GOP For Being An Insular Party – Are They Right? | Mediaite

On Monday, MSNBC anchor Thomas Robertshosted a panel debate over the impact ofObama’s recent rhetorical embrace of gay marriage on the electorate with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign advisor Hogan Gidley and Democratic strategis …

Chris Hedges: Colonized by Corporations - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent the …

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse - NYTimes.com

By SHARON OTTERMAN and RAY RIVERA   Published: May 9, 2012 The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second came after Mr. Jungreis complain …

Lobbyists Arranged N.Y. Congressman's $20,000 Trip To Taiwan - ProPublica

by Justin Elliott ProPublica, May 10, 2012, 8 p.m. Update May 11, 2012: Rep. Bill Owens announces he will reimburse costs for Taiwan trip. Two days after Christmas last year, Rep. Bill Owens, D-N.Y., and his wife, Jane, boarded a first-class flight to Taiwa …

Food Stamp Myth-Busting

For over four decades, the Food Stamp Program, which Congress renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, has had bipartisan support as the nation's most important anti-hunger program. Even the far reaching welfare reform legislation of the mid 90's le …

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