Recent Votes

• Can We Put a Damper on Corruption in the US?

  Those immersed in corrupt practices have been around since time began. They know the gullible, ignorant and the greedy and understand how easily it is to sway them and involve them in dirty deeds.

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• The Big Lie - just saying it doesn't make it so...

  Source: The New York Times

  the myth is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac support for home ownership caused the financial crisis...  As Karen Petrou, a well-regarded bank analyst, puts it: “The S.E.C.’s facts paint a picture in which it wasn’t high-minded government mandates tha …

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• "I Cannot Eat Your Prayers": How Student Debt Changed One Woman's Mind on "Christian Charity"

  Source: AlterNet.org

  You insist on praying for people like me, but you haven’t the slightest idea that I walk among you. I have conversations with you. I hold my own in arguments. I call you out on your bull@!$%#.

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• Santorum Is Outraged That Gay 'Sexual Activity' Is 'Being Seen As Equal' To Heterosexual Sex

  Source: Think Progress

  GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum engaged in a contentious discussion about same-sex marriage during a campaign stop at a Christian college in Sioux City, Iowa last night, after a student compared the senator’s position against marriage equality to prohibitions aga …

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• Is Grover Norquist Effectively "Blackmailing" Members of Congress?

  Many Members of Congress who signed Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge are now realizing what some us have known for a long time: that signing a pledge which "trumps" their oath of office is becoming politically untenable.

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