( NOTE FROM PAM: Karen Ocamb of LGBT POV gave permission to the Blend post this great and unsettling piece.} (Karen: I first met Charles Stewart in the late 80s/early 1990s when his close friend Phill Wilson was running the National Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum. Those were the days when the late poet Essex Hemphill and filmmaker Marlon Riggs were hot and controversial with Rigg's artistic...
Diane Watson -- the Progressive Caucus whip who was responsible for whipping members to oppose any bill that didn't have a public plan (and blew it) -- is now caving herself. She sang that old standby, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" to Dave Dayen last night. Here's Diane Watson's Facebook page . And her office: DC: 202-225-7084, LA 323-965-1422
by JONATHAN HARRIS , Managing Editor America is home to 1.3 million homeless children. In fact, children make up the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, many of them looking to escape from an abusive or dysfunctional home. The numbers are fairly staggering, and in a country where there's an overwhelming emphasis on one's bootstraps, there can be a tendency to ignore this problem, to...
Two different progressive approaches I got a lovely personalized e-mail from MoveOn.org yesterday thanking me for having a little something to do with the health care victory Saturday night. (My congressmember, Diane Watson-- who I love for her prefect voting record and wonderful leadership role among progressives, but who has never responded to a phone call from me-- voted for the bill. If not her,...
By The Hill Staff - 11/07/09 04:08 PM ET Below is a list of selected Democrats and their positions on the House healthcare reform bill based on media accounts, press releases and spokesmen for the lawmakers. UPDATED 11/7/09 4:08 p.m. YES OR LEANING YES Howard Berman (Calif.) Leonard Boswell (Iowa) G.K. Butterfield (N.C.) Steve Cohen (Tenn.) Called the measure "America's bill" Gerry Connolly...
The Hill has compiled the whip count for the Pelosi bill coming to the floor in 2 days. This is their list updated as of last night. The Hill contributors/data gatherers are: Mike Soraghan, Bob Cusack, Mary Ann Dreas, Samantha Guthrie and Dan Randlett. The Hill will be updating as new information comes in, and you can view that here . Reprinted below is their annotated list: YES OR LEANING YES Leonard...
Oct 27: The House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement, Chaired by Representative Diane Watson (D-CA) held a hearing entitled, IT Procurement and Disposal: Application of the Federal Government’s Green Policies in the Life Cycle Management of IT Assets . Witnesses testifying included: Rep. Gene Green (D-TX); Rep. Mike...
Marc Lamont Hill, Laura Ingraham, and Tammy Bruce discuss Congresswoman Diane Watson's comments about race and the state of health care in America. They also address Watson's comments about Fidel Castro and Cuban healthcare. Cliff Kincaid over at Accuracy in Media (AIM) announces Fox News has fired Marc Lamont Hill. Cliff represented AIM at NewsCorp's annual meeting. (”Accuracy in Media is a...
RedState Morning Briefing For October 15, 2009 Go to http://www.redstate.com/action/ for the name and phone number of your Senator. Call your Senator and demand opposition to the Baucus health care plan. 1. The Totally Real And Not Fake Stupid Quotes Shenaniganza! 2. Rush’s Rams 3. How Limbaugh’s embodiment of MLK’s dream changed my life 4. Is Robert Wexler Under Criminal Investigation?...
RRRAAAACCCCIIIIISSSSSSTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s what the MSM had to say in comments about Rush Limbaugh’s recent bid to purchase the St. Louis Rams. According to some guy I overheard at the mall, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested that Limbaugh owning the Rams “is exactly the same as slavery, but fatter.” And then there’s what Helen Thomas probably...
Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for “social justice.” Elites and Tyrants by Walter E. Williams Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba’s health care system, “You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of [...]
by Walter E. Williams Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also -- and this was the highest...
Elites and Tyrants by Walter E. Williams Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also -- and...
The United States Congress has numerous coalitions and caucuses which various Congressmen and Senators align themselves with, such as the Republican Study Committee , or the Blue Dog Coalition , however, there is one caucus in the United States Congress which associates itself with left-wing organizations such as the ACLU, NAACP, La Raza, Moveon.Org, and other liberal organizations which advocate far-left...
Nanette Lepore Last Friday a team of concerned members of the fashion industry, including designer Nanette Lepore and Representative Diane Watson (Democrat of California), gathered in Washington D.C. to discuss that state of the industry and the critical changes needed...
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