Make your voice count on matters that shape our world
By Chen Lin on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:39:44
The Iran Sanctions Bill we wrote about in December has passed the Senate in a unanimous voice vote late January. It must now be reconciled with the House version before it can become law. Because the final bill will inevitably pass, the best outcome at this point is to mitigate the damage by changing the Read More
By Reva Patwardhan on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:47:39
Jon Rainwater’s Opinion Editorial calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s to push for the kind of credible, cost effective alternatives that Afghanistan Ambassador Karl Eikenberry argued for ran today in the San Francisco Chronicle. Rep. Pelosi is one of the most powerful people in the country, so if you live in San Francisco, Rep. Pelosi’s Read More
By Cara Bautista on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:38:31
Funding for nuclear weapons programs next year is now being proposed at about $7 billion — a 10% increase from last year. Released yesterday, the Fiscal Year 2011 budget for the Department of Energy increases funding for nuclear weapons activities by $661 million and increases funding for defense nuclear non-proliferation by $550 million, an artificially Read More
By Rebecca Griffin on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:00:36
I always appreciate a chance to increase public debate, so I was pleased to discover (via a post on our Facebook fanpage) that Republican candidate Diggs Brown decided to post his response to our candidate questionnaire publicly. He is running in the Republican primary for the 4th congressional district of Colorado, a seat once held Read More
By Reva Patwardhan on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:40:49
There’s been a glut of bad news of in politics of late, but one congressional leader is showing spine uncharacteristic for many congressional Democrats — Nancy Pelosi. I’m talking about her criticism of Obama’s plan to freeze spending for everything but Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. She’s saying that if there is a freeze, it Read More
While Congress argues over how they can’t possibly find the funds to insure the 45,000 uninsured Americans who die every year, our total cost of wars since 2001 will top a trillion dollars in 2010. Just the recent addition of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan will cost us $82 million each day!
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