Bob Filner

Is Your Representative Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan?

Norman Solomon | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Neil Abercrombie, Pakistan, Ron Paul, War, Michael Honda, Walter Jones, Jim McGovern, Barack Obama, Bob Filner, Roscoe Bartlett, Escalation, Howard Coble, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, Ed Whitfield, Afghanistan, John Duncan, Steve Kagen, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Last week, some members of Congress sent President Obama a letter that urged him to "reconsider" his order deploying 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. But the list of signers was awfully short.

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Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Factory Farming, John Campbell, Chris Shays, Horses, Tom Lantos, Canada, America's Next Top Model, Prop 2, Animals, Farm Animals, Seal Hunt, Bob Filner, California, Susan Collins, Proposition 2, Nigel Barker, Carl Levin, Horse Slaughter, Elton Gallegly, Animal Cruelty, Seals, Atlantic Coast, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.

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