Print Dr. Susan Berry Read Full Bio Official: Goal of 'Fiscal Cliff' to Break GOP on No Tax Increase Pledge According to Ed Henry of Fox News, the “fiscal cliff” deal passed by the Senate served its ultimate goal for President Obama. An official close to the negotiations said: “The President fulfilled a major campaign promise,” referring to raising taxes on the rich. The official added that the president “broke the Republicans’ backs on a 20-year pledge” not to raise tax rates. 1 Jan 2013 American Heroes: Conservative Congressional Republicans How difficult it is to consider people currently in American government as heroes. After all, we have a narcissistic president, whose narcissism is so ingrained that he has no awareness of his grossly partisan agenda. We have a Democrat Party that plans to spend more money anyway, so why bother with a budget at all? And we have an established, main stream Republican Party that seems frightened to win elections. 31 Dec 2012 Obama's NLRB Plays Santa to Unions While politicians have kept the focus on the fiscal cliff and displaced anger toward law-abiding citizens who own guns, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was able to quietly overturn longstanding precedents to give unions some Christmas gifts that will ultimately hand them a windfall. 29 Dec 2012 NBC News: Lanza Stopped Seeing Dad when He Began Dating Another Woman NBC is reporting that Adam Lanza had cut off communication with his father, Peter Lanza, and had refused to see him, once his father began dating another woman in 2010. Ryan Lanza, Adam’s older brother, said that he had not had any contact with Adam since 2010 as well. 19 Dec 2012 Black Community: Why Is Urban Gun Violence Ignored? “We’ve had 51 killings in 21 months and why hasn’t New Haven been declared a ‘state of emergency’ then? It’s not about race, it’s not about ages; it’s about right and wrong and lives being taken by the hands of others. It’s not right either way,” 19 Dec 2012 Adam Lanza Would Not Have Received Death Penalty in Connecticut Though Adam Lanza may have committed one of the most heinous crimes in history, had he survived his rampage and been convicted in court, he would not have been sentenced to death. In April of 2012, Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) and the Democrat-led Connecticut legislature repealed the death penalty on a party-line vote. The law replaced capital punishment with life in prison, without the possibility of parole. 17 Dec 2012 How to Talk to Kids About the Connecticut School Massacre For the families in Newtown, Connecticut, the horrific tragedy of the Sandy Hook school massacre is still a shock that has only just begun to become real. Yet, families all over the country are also stunned by the senseless murders of young children and their school staff in a place where children are supposed to be safe. 16 Dec 2012 Report: Alleged Connecticut Shooter's Parent Found Dead in New Jersey The alleged gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut shot and killed one of his parents in New Jersey before heading to the Connecticut school, according to Pete Williams of NBC. 14 Dec 2012 20 Children Killed in Connecticut Elementary School Shooting The Hartford Courant is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 18 children, as a result of multiple shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. 14 Dec 2012 Cardinal Dolan Accuses New York Times of Media Bias on HHS Mandate In a landmark ruling against the Obama administration’s HHS Mandate, a federal judge last week ruled that the supposed “safe harbor” in the mandate was not adequate to protect religious organizations, including the New York Archdiocese, from suffering imminent harm from the mandate. As a result of this ruling, the archdiocese’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration on the mandate may now move forward. “Did you hear about the decision last week?” Cardinal Dolan asked in his column on the archdiocese’s website released Wednesday. “You probably did not, as there seems to have been no mention of the decision – in favor of the archdiocese, by the way – in any local newspaper or on television.” 14 Dec 2012 Previous 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Next
Official: Goal of 'Fiscal Cliff' to Break GOP on No Tax Increase Pledge According to Ed Henry of Fox News, the “fiscal cliff” deal passed by the Senate served its ultimate goal for President Obama. An official close to the negotiations said: “The President fulfilled a major campaign promise,” referring to raising taxes on the rich. The official added that the president “broke the Republicans’ backs on a 20-year pledge” not to raise tax rates. 1 Jan 2013
American Heroes: Conservative Congressional Republicans How difficult it is to consider people currently in American government as heroes. After all, we have a narcissistic president, whose narcissism is so ingrained that he has no awareness of his grossly partisan agenda. We have a Democrat Party that plans to spend more money anyway, so why bother with a budget at all? And we have an established, main stream Republican Party that seems frightened to win elections. 31 Dec 2012
Obama's NLRB Plays Santa to Unions While politicians have kept the focus on the fiscal cliff and displaced anger toward law-abiding citizens who own guns, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was able to quietly overturn longstanding precedents to give unions some Christmas gifts that will ultimately hand them a windfall. 29 Dec 2012
NBC News: Lanza Stopped Seeing Dad when He Began Dating Another Woman NBC is reporting that Adam Lanza had cut off communication with his father, Peter Lanza, and had refused to see him, once his father began dating another woman in 2010. Ryan Lanza, Adam’s older brother, said that he had not had any contact with Adam since 2010 as well. 19 Dec 2012
Black Community: Why Is Urban Gun Violence Ignored? “We’ve had 51 killings in 21 months and why hasn’t New Haven been declared a ‘state of emergency’ then? It’s not about race, it’s not about ages; it’s about right and wrong and lives being taken by the hands of others. It’s not right either way,” 19 Dec 2012
Adam Lanza Would Not Have Received Death Penalty in Connecticut Though Adam Lanza may have committed one of the most heinous crimes in history, had he survived his rampage and been convicted in court, he would not have been sentenced to death. In April of 2012, Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) and the Democrat-led Connecticut legislature repealed the death penalty on a party-line vote. The law replaced capital punishment with life in prison, without the possibility of parole. 17 Dec 2012
How to Talk to Kids About the Connecticut School Massacre For the families in Newtown, Connecticut, the horrific tragedy of the Sandy Hook school massacre is still a shock that has only just begun to become real. Yet, families all over the country are also stunned by the senseless murders of young children and their school staff in a place where children are supposed to be safe. 16 Dec 2012
Report: Alleged Connecticut Shooter's Parent Found Dead in New Jersey The alleged gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut shot and killed one of his parents in New Jersey before heading to the Connecticut school, according to Pete Williams of NBC. 14 Dec 2012
20 Children Killed in Connecticut Elementary School Shooting The Hartford Courant is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 18 children, as a result of multiple shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. 14 Dec 2012
Cardinal Dolan Accuses New York Times of Media Bias on HHS Mandate In a landmark ruling against the Obama administration’s HHS Mandate, a federal judge last week ruled that the supposed “safe harbor” in the mandate was not adequate to protect religious organizations, including the New York Archdiocese, from suffering imminent harm from the mandate. As a result of this ruling, the archdiocese’s lawsuit challenging the Obama administration on the mandate may now move forward. “Did you hear about the decision last week?” Cardinal Dolan asked in his column on the archdiocese’s website released Wednesday. “You probably did not, as there seems to have been no mention of the decision – in favor of the archdiocese, by the way – in any local newspaper or on television.” 14 Dec 2012
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