My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]
Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.
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Newsmakers Roasting on an Open Fire: Your Gift Ideas for 2009's Naughty and Nice
Earlier this week, I asked for your ideas on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You dusted of...
Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade!
We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank.
Congress Takes Critical Step in Halting Abusive Forced Arbitrations
Al Franken and Mary Landrieu's amendment protects defense contractor employees who have been victims of sexual assault, harassment, or other forms of discrimination.
Friday Talking Points [105] -- One Bad Week
The health care debate is teetering, not "on the precipice of success" as President Obama put it, but rather on the precipice of outright farce.
30 Senators Embarrassed About Their Votes Against Franken Amendment? They Ought To Be
These men are so blinded by the power of the conditioning that they've received that they can't, or won't see the women for the corporations.
Napolitano Confirms Timeline for Obama Administration on Immigration Overhaul
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the Obama Administration's plan to push for ...
The Insurance Industry's Lethal Bottom Line -- and a Solution From Sens. Franken and Rockefeller
The health care reform bill now being debated in the Senate must include a provision that sets a minimum medical loss ratio to keep insurers from gouging consumers and leaving patients without the care they need.
Words That Work
A - I´ll always want you B - Because my heart is true C - Come, come, come closer And I´ll tell you of the ABC´s -Fran...
The Real Reason Obama Isn't Making Much Progress
The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.
Embarrassed, Jeff Sessions Makes Stupid Excuses
Republican senators are somehow surprised by negative publicity over their vote endorsing Halliburton's alleged gang rape cover-up. Both of my senator...
Is The Battle of The Sexes Over? Your Sexual Harassment And What To Do About It
With such heated discussion on the topic of sexual harassment, I asked two of the top experts, Barry Halote, Ph.D., and Allan Gerson, Ph.D., to weigh in on the issue.
Republicans for Rape
I checked to make sure that the 30 Republican Senators who voted against Jamie Leigh Jones' anti-rape bill two weeks ago had wives and daughters. Mos...
Helping Vets, Pets, and Primates
Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.
Republicans for Rape: Lets Get Real
Do the Senators against Al Franken's bill consciously support rape? Of course not. But their actions absolutely support a status quo in which rape and sexual violence flourish.
Projection TV: Real Americans Watch Fox News
Conservatives -- or "Real Americans" -- are easily threatened, and view those outside their tribe with suspicion. Those outside their tribe don't deserve a lot: especially not the right to vote.
Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz
What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.
Senate Passes Amendment To Prevent KBR and Halliburton From Getting Away With Raping Employees (Literally)
Al Franken offered the amendment because of a KBR employee, age 19, who was raped by a bunch of KBR workers in Iraq. After she was rescued, she was informed that she couldn't take KBR to court.
Political Celebrity and Publishing Tastes
Angry books sell on emotion. That's why they'll always sell better than cooler, thoughtful books. It's also why they're soon forgotten.
Sen. Al Franken gets serious on free speech, net neutrality
Sen. Al Franken started his career as a comedian, but he's dead serious about the issue of net neutrality. Appearing Monday at the Future of Music pol...
Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action
The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
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