Organizing for Action is a non-profit advocacy organization borne out of the Obama campaign infrastructure. Headed by veteran staff of Obama’s reelection, the organization’s mission is to use the resources that reelected Obama to promote his policy agenda. As a
Salon’s Irin Carmon is annoyed at the pesky right wing writers who have recently announced that the Gosnell story deserves more coverage. Her response “There is no Gosnell Coverup” is a partisan pass at a story that has been passed
A former security guard at Universal Music in Los Angeles says she was fired for blowing the whistle on rampant drug use by the label’s artists. The woman, who is suing her former employer, claims she was offered drugs by
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, widely considered a possible candidate for the 2016 presidential race, put outreach into action with a speech Wednesday morning at Howard University, a historically black college. The talk covered a variety of political topics from
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and
Marking its first high-profile American hire, Al Jazeera has announced that it has acquired CNN’s former chief business correspondent, Ali Velshi, for its new Al Jazeera America cable network. Al Jazeera America is preparing for a summer launch after having
There are dozens of articles hyping government purchases of ammunition over the last nine months. After spending weeks researching this topic, this is a collection of commonly held myths that are based more on panic than fact. With the recent
Senate Budget Committee Republican staff on Thursday released a description of what they claim is a “major flaw” in the immigration reform plan being pushed by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight”–a loophole that will end up being a multi-trillion dollar
It was 8:30 p.m. and I just finished recording the vocals for a demo at Capitol Records. We do a playback in Studio B and Paula Salvatore, who runs Capitol, listens and I get a big smile and nod of
On March 13, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Obama Department of Labor (DOL). They’re seeking records detailing the May 30, 2012 visit of
According to a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Christians suffer and are harassed in more places than any other religious group. Writing for The Commentator, Lawrence J. Haas asks, “How many more Christians around the world must die
The soccer match at the Azteca between the United States and Mexico last Tuesday drew 2.39 million viewers on ESPN, which was the highest rating ever for a World Cup qualifying match on the network. Variety noted that “this is
The United Nations announced on Wednesday that they were assembling a team to go to Syria on a “fact finding mission” to determine whether the Syrian Army or the rebels have acquired chemical weapons. Transcript: QUESTION: Do you have any
Broadcast network executives already have to worry about the rise of Internet content, mobile phones and other trending tech diversions. Now, they’ve got cable competition breathing down their corporate necks. For the season, ad-supported cable as a group has opened
ALBANY, N.Y., March 24 (UPI)–A New York state lawmaker is balking at a $5 million tax credit to lure NBC’s “Tonight Show” to New York City while developmental disabilities funds are cut. Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, of the Schenectady area,
Colt Manufacturing is considering a move out of Connecticut after 175 years in business due to the new gun bans being mulled by the state legislature and Democrat Governor Dannel Malloy. Colt President and CEO Dennis Veilleux published an op
Jimmy Fallon won’t officially take over as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show for some time, but New York legislators are already rolling out the red carpet for him. Make that a “green” carpet. Not only is NBC planning to ditch
March Madness tips off on Thursday, ushering in two of the best sports days of the year as 32 games will be played in 48 hours from coast to coast on Thursday and Friday. Can a mid-major team win a
On Monday, Pentagon officials confirmed that U.S. B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea. The war games exercise, known as Exercise Foal Eagle, took place over South Korea on March 8. “It’s not any secret that
This morning, VA Rep. Frank Wolf convened a hearing of the Commerce Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee he chairs. The subject of the hearing was youth violence and, specifically, the role video games play in encouraging violent behavior. A
Even though long-suffering sports fans often feel the blues when their teams perennially fail to win championships, scientific studies are showing that passionate sports fans are actually less prone to depression and alienation and even have higher self-esteem than those
LOS ANGELES, March 19 (UPI)–The publisher of Hollywood mainstay the Daily Variety said Tuesday would be its last print edition as the newspaper tries to adapt to the digital age. “We were delivering a print product telling you stories you’ve
Even as President Obama inflames fears of a government shutdown because of cuts from sequestration, the federal government is still offering a myriad of high-paid internships. A search by Fox News of the federal employment site found 84 new internships
Walter Salles, like his fellow Brazilians during the 1970s, suffered under his country’s military dictatorship. Torture and exile were commonplace, he says. Censorship overshadowed the arts, stripping students like Salles of potential reading material. Then the future director got his
On Tuesday, the New York Times warned that “Detroit, a mostly black city led mainly by Democrats” is at risk of “needless and undemocratic seizure of control” from “intervention by the state, mostly white and led by Republicans.” The Times’
