Author: The Maven

Following up on issues from a diary I’d posted at dKos about a month ago on Congressional efforts to restrict the scope of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, it seemed appropriate for an...

Take that, GOP!  A newly released poll, “Moral Dilemma: Which Morals?”, conducted by Westhill Partners/The Hotline should give pause to those who fear having the Democratic Party push a “values-oriented...

Well, the incompetents in the Government have done it again, releasing a Pentagon report in redacted form — only we can read much (if not all) of what was scrubbed out.  You’d think that maybe they’d...

Democratic Reps. Jim Marshall (GA-3) and G.K. Butterfield (NC-1) are promoting a discharge petition (designed to force a vote) to immediately end what’s known as the Disabled Veterans’ Tax, which prevents vets from...

Earlier today, reading The New York Times over my coffee, I came across a small AP story about the murder of Shaima Rezayee, a young Afghan woman who was killed, apparently, for being too “Western”. Ms. Rezayee, 24,...