'They're Not Dead Yet': Planning The Demise Of Labor Unions At CPAC

"What is really good here is the unmentionable: There will be so much less money without all these dues, 90-some percent in most cases, going to Democrats," Scanlon said during the panel. "Without the money there, it's not going to happen. This is great news. It's great news."

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'They're Not Dead Yet': Planning The Demise Of Labor Unions At CPAC

Bobby Jindal Gets A Much-Needed History Lesson After Eric Holder Insult

An Open Letter To Joe Rutherford Editor Tupelo MS Daily Journal

Dear Joe:

 I want to share this open letter with you and the hundreds of your Daily Journal readers throughout Mississippi and America. I sincerely hope the educational content contained herein will ultimately be beneficial to those seeking to enhance their knowledge of both history and politics.

Al Bratton, Tupelo Liberal

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Bobby Jindal Gets A Much-Needed History Lesson After Eric Holder Insult

"There needs to be a required statement at the bottom of the screen during CPAC speakers addresses: 'Not to Be Considered As Factual. For Entertainment Purposes Only'"-- ABratt's favorite comment from the HP article.  

Tupelo Liberal Link:
http://abrattsliberaltupeloms.blogspot.com

 

Do These Indiana State Legislators Really Believe Gay Marriage Can Be Stopped?

Reader Comment from: Indiana State House Advances Constitutional Ban ,,,

"Virginia and many other southern states once banned interracial marriages too. Like bans on interracial marriages, bans on same-sex marriages will one day be declared unConstitutional. There is no other course for them to take. The only countries where same-sex marriages will one day be illegal will be countries that are Theocracies or Dictatorships. Americans who stand against same-sex marriage are standing against Democracy and the basic principles this country was founded on. Marriage is a civil right. Weddings are religious rituals. No Democracy can make same-sex marriages illegal and still be a Democracy."--ABratt's favorite comment from this article. 1-29-14. 

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Jason Collins, Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors Among State Of The Union Guests

"In America, whomever is not inspirational to thee is,in fact, very inspirational to me!"--ABratt

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Jason Collins, Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors Among State Of The Union Guests

First Things First: Why the United States Need a Pro-Democracy Movement | Common Dreams

I certainly agree with the author of this article.--ABratt

First Things First: Why the United States Need a Pro-Democracy Movement | Common Dreams

Wendy Davis Campaign Hits Back At 'Desperate' Greg Abbott, Rush Limbaugh

As an American male from Mississippi, I am convinced Wendy Davis will be the next governor of her state!--ABratt 1-25-14.

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Wendy Davis Campaign Hits Back At 'Desperate' Greg Abbott, Rush Limbaugh

Republican Congressional Candidate: Obama 'The Bane Of Freedom-Loving Americans'

 A Commenter's Question:
  
"Obama's Impeachment" tgrounds that the GOP party operates on: The "Ted Nugent Grounds."--ABratt's Comment

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Republican Congressional Candidate: Obama 'The Bane Of Freedom-Loving Americans'

Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women 'They Cannot Control Their Libido' Without The Government

WASHINGTON -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) is so fed up with the anti-Republican "War on Women" narrative that he went on a rant Thursday, accusing Democrats of trying to convince women they need the government to help them ["control their libidos."]

Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women 'They Cannot Control Their Libido' Without The Government

Open Letter To Joe Rutherford Editor Tupelo MS Daily Journal

Open Letter To Joe Rutherford, 1- 21-14

Dear Joe:

I would like to share the article linked below with you and the Tupelo, MS Daily Journal Community:
ABratt
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"41 Years of Fighting Over Roe"
by Martha Burk

"...And abortion and the doctors who provide them aren't the only targets in the opposition's gun sights. Birth control, which surely reduces the number of abortions, is also under attack from ongoing lawsuits against insurance coverage for it in Obamacare."

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With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

ABratt's favorite reader comment from this article:

"No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Since they want this and so many other restrictions so bad and because they always claim that a fetus is a person then why has not one personhood anti choice politician ever proposed a bill that will allow a woman to claim a fetus as a dependent on their income taxes? If "life" begins at conception (as they all claim) then a woman should be able to have that deduction. Just ask that question next time. Whenever I ask it I hear because the child has not been born. Kinda kills their argument.16 JAN 6:22 AM

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 With Upcoming Discussion on Limiting Abortion Rights, the Personal Is Political | Rep. Karen Bass

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

Maybe the Kentucks should be busy trying to get Jesus back down from heaven to take over Mitch's senate seat. But, I frankly don't think Jesus would pee on Mitch if he needed a wet down for some reason, And, I also doubt Jesus would allow Mitch to sit on his right side since He is really a staunch Jewish Liberal.--ABratt, Jan. 15, 2014.

Alison Lundergan Grimes Accuses Mitch McConnell Of Laughing 'In The Faces' Of The Unemployed

Dark Money Swirls Around The Toughest Senate Races This Year

"Money Is The Root of All Evil," Especially As Republican Politics Goes!--ABratt

"New and re-proposed 'dark money' groups are jumping into key Senate races this year. In five states -- Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and South Carolina -- the difficult reelection bids of incumbent senators have already been directly targeted or indirectly influenced."

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Federal Government Will Recognize Utah Same-Sex Marriages, Eric Holder Announces

Federal Government Will Recognize Utah Same-Sex Marriages, Eric Holder Announces

ABratt's Favorite Comment from this article:

For a lame duck administration Obama is taking the advantage of not having to run again, to drag the nation kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

He is free of the constraints placed on him by having to cater for the majority and now is reinforcing the rights of minorities that have for far too long been ostracized, marginalized, vilified and treated as lesser beings let alone lesser Americans.Equal rights is freedom from the tyranny of the majority and for millions of people, they can join in and say, free at last, free at last.

The entire opposition to equal rights for the LGBT has been a selfish, magical thinking somehow if they get the same rights as me, I lose something and yes they do, they lose the ability to control other grown adults personal lives.

If marriage is such a moral institution then why can’t those same morals justify same sex marriage, there is love in both and there are broken families by the score that are formerly married heterosexuals, yet those divorce statistics aren’t judged by the same criteria that sort to deprive same sex couples of the same basic rights to marry.

Utah has set a non stoppable force in motion because the government based their entire premise to deprive people of fulfillment and a normal life on anti constitutional nullification of the 14 th amendment that guarantees equal rights under the law throughout the nation and those rights are not subject to interpretation under the 10th amendment of states’ rights, just like interracial marriage, the rights of access for disabled and the rights to an education that is equal as was proven by brown V Board of Education that guaranteed the integration of schools, why the entire civil rights act was premised and passed on the 14th amendment and the same people fighting against the rights to equality for the LGBT community are the same or decedents of the people who fought against the civil rights act .

Antisocial extremists are losing battle after battle and what was seen as extreme in years past is now seen as normal, They lost to the suffragette movement, they lost the civil war and they are losing this fight too.

If you love you love and laws should never interfere nor block love between adults.1 America, 1 set of laws, 1 equality and a common road to acceptance.

California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source

My comment on Huffington Post that was moderated out:

"Any other American would do time for this scheme. When are the Krotch Brothers going to do their time in the slammer? When is the real justice going to start? It will be left up to the American People. I'm ready to do my part to see these crooks put where they belong like any other crook!"--ABratt

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California Settles 'Dark Money' Case: Source

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'

Don & Tim Wildmon's American Family Association (and their Darling, Sandy Rios) Maintain A Very "Dark Side" In Tupelo, MS, An Otherwise Decent, All American City.

Sandy Rios At Values Voter Summit: Matthew Shepard's Murder Was 'A Total Fraud'


A few of my favorite comments from the aricle:

"This woman calling herself a Christian is a fraud."


"I'm kind of glad that they openly say these sort of things at their conferences. By openly discussing their hatred and bigotry there is no mistaking by the rest of us what they are and what they represent. Anyone who attends this type of conference is tarred by the same brush."

"These speakers at this value summit are Frauds, these good loving Christians are showing what they really are HATERS"

House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

... the House Republicans have every right to try to get their preferred policies enacted into law through the democratic process. They have tried to do this politically, electorally and judicially. They have failed at every turn. The have lost every time they have tried to repeal Obamacare through the legislative process. They have lost in the Supreme Court when they challenged the constitutionality of the law. They have failed politically with the electorate when they were soundly defeated in the 2012 election. Indeed, the only reason House Republicans can play this cruel and criminal game at all is because they gerrymandered congressional districts to enable them to control the House even though they were defeated by the Democrats in the national popular vote for Congress.--Geoffrey R. Stone 

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House Republicans and the Betrayal of Democracy | Geoffrey R. Stone

GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Original Salon Post 8-15-12, Recent Blog Post 9-26-13

The author of this article appears to  equate the words "religious right" and "Tea Party" as synonymous or very nearly so, which, in fact, they are: The "Tupelo MS Tea Party" and the "American Family Association" are very close kin, so much so that I, a resident of Tupelo myself, have decided to include the two together as  being  a part of Tupelo MS's "Dark Side."--ABratt  

The Tea Party, which initially described itself as wholly concerned with debt, deficit, and federal overreach, gradually unmasked itself as being almost as theocratic as the activists from the religious right that Armey had denounced only a few years before. If anything, they were even slightly more disposed than the rest of the Republican Party to inject religious issues into the political realm. According to an academic study of the Tea Party, “[T]hey seek ‘deeply religious’ elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates.” The Tea Party faithful are not so much libertarian as authoritarian, the furthest thing from a “live free or die”Constitutionalist.

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GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party - Salon.com

Botanical Society Panel Derides Creationism, Louisiana Science Education Act

Gov. Jindal's Creation Education law "has made Louisiana an International Laughing Stock"...[No doubt!]

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Botanical Society Panel Derides Creationism, Louisiana Science Education Act

Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

Eric Holder Wants Texas Voting Law Changes To Be Cleared By U.S.

Eric, while you're at it, turn Gov. Perry feet up-head down, shake him real good, and check what falls out of his pockets. It might amaze the world what will come tumbling out!--ABratt

So This Is The Party Of Family Values And GOD'S Only People aka The GOP!

North Carolina Becomes Ground Zero For GOP Cowardice And Contempt...

Jonathan Weiler:

For a clear sense of what the Republican Party has in store for the entire country, were it able to get its clutches on all the levers of power, North Carolina is becoming an increasingly illuminating place to look. With the election of the allegedly "moderate" Pat McCrory as governor last November, the Republican takeover of state government was complete. And in six short months, motivated by willful ignorance, spite and contempt, the party has cut a category-five hurricane swathe of destruction through the state, the damage from which could take years to undo. Tar Heel Republicans have, among other things, rejected Medicaid expansion,...

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