Month: July 2010

Speaker Pelosi celebrates the passage (by voice vote) of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010: Key Provisions: Reduces the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine from 100:1 to 18:1, with a 5-year mandatory minimum for...

In the least surprising news of the day, a federal judge has put an injunction on key parts of the Arizona immigration law, ruling that the Justice Department is likely to win its case arguing that the bill unconstitutionally...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. It might feel counterintuitive, but the more varieties of vegetables, plants, and insects that are included in a garden, the less vulnerable any single crop...

Shirley Sherrod, as most of us know by now, is the Agriculture Department official vilified this week after a distorted video posted by right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart went viral. When the facts were in, it was clear that...

I never heard of Jeffrey Lord before yesterday, but he’s a badly confused individual with appallingly poor judgment and taste. It all started for Lord when he decided that Shirley Sherrod lied when she said a relative of...