Republicans
Huge crowd pledges to fight for MLK’s ‘Dream’
June 25, 2013Fifty years after Dr. King first gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" to 100,000 in this city, a diverse sea of people again flooded a two-mile stretch of Woodward Ave, Detroit's main thoroughfare.
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Philly hunger strikers fast for safe schools
June 25, 2013"This is breakfast, lunch and dinner. Every day, for eight days," said Patricia Norris as she held up her bottle of water. Norris is on a "water only" fast outside Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's regional office.
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Boehner says he’ll block whatever Senate GOP can’t kill
June 20, 2013Boehner's statement is important because it gives his 234-member caucus a virtual veto over what Congress does, regardless of the Senate.
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Service Employees plan massive response to GOP’s immigrant bashing
June 20, 2013"If they thought 2012 was bad" in terms of the tide of Latino votes against the GOP, "wait 'till 2014 and 2016."
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Immigration: The multiple dangers of the “SAFE” Act
June 19, 2013The SAFE Act has harsh features including criminalizing, at the misdemeanor level, the mere act of being in the country without authorization.
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