Anti-gun lobby & Dem Party leadership kills voting rights for DC

By: Tuesday April 20, 2010 10:29 pm

Steny Hoyer and the Democrats have killed the Congressional voting rights for DC bill. They couldn’t remove a gun-control killing amendment passed in the Senate bill a year ago, had finally and grudgingly accepted that and planned a vote, but on Tuesday reversed themselves and abandoned the bill.

Gun Control: Why It’s Important

By: Saturday March 20, 2010 6:53 am

This post is about why I believe that stronger, more affective gun laws and gun control are very important.

Two Extreme Lowlights of the “Bipartisan” Senate “Healthcare Reform”

By: Tuesday December 22, 2009 9:05 am

If it gets any more Bipartisan this Healthcare Reform bill will be issuing hunting permits for your quota of women entering and leaving women’s health clinics.

Because this is supposed to be a bipartisan effort to fix healthcare and all, and that is all the left really wants to do is to fix it so people have access to Doctors in this healthcare reform. First a word from our regularly scheduled people that respect women and their rights:

Schwarzenegger crowdsources on Twitter, Progressives mostly absent

By: Friday September 18, 2009 8:27 pm

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