Apr 3, 2013
A small victory was won today in the battle against Right-to-Work. Ingham County Circuit Court Judge William Collette refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and labor unions against the law. The ACLU argued that the law is invalid because it was passed while the public was locked-out of the capitol building in [...]
Jan 16, 2013
While ALEC legislators still insist on implementing ALEC experimental policies and legislation claiming they are cost effective. But, at the same time, the public is being inundated with more and more research that privatization of governmental agencies does not benefit anyone – except the ALEC corporate profit sector member who gets the state contract or [...]
Jan 13, 2013
Crap! We’ve know it was coming, but the shitstorm of rad-right legislation that is only to be expected by a state led by a Duke Energy exec–paytoplaypat, Art Pope, an ALEC-dominated State Legislature – a supermajority in Raleigh. Recently I reposted an article from Mother Jones talking about the Democracy Initiative where they reported that [...]
Oct 25, 2012
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has monitored several previous elections in the US. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images ############################ State Attorney General calls international group’s plan to watch for fairness at the polls ‘legally irrelevant in the United States’ The Texas attorney general, Greg Abbott, has threatened to arrest international election monitors invited [...]
Aug 1, 2012
Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carole Aichele, testifying Tuesday during a state trial on the state’s controversial voter ID law, said she wasn’t sure about the details of the law, but stood by her unsupported claim that 99 percent of voters had valid identification. …Aichele also couldn’t provide any evidence that 99 percent of voters [...]
Jul 13, 2012
Thanks to a failed MSM and timid DoJ, most Americans do not realize true purpose of voter suppressing photo ID laws… [note: this is perhaps the finest reporting that I have seen on Voter Suppression] It is ironic that so many citizens in the Land of 10,000 Lakes — as high as 80% — would [...]
Jun 14, 2012
On Wednesday, the ACLU released “At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly,” a report examining the mushrooming number of prisoners in the U.S. over 50 and the resultant stresses exerted on the corrections system and on our society as a whole. The civil rights group said that states on average could save $66,000 [...]
