Born on the Fourth of July
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Today the United States celebrates its official 246th birthday.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Today the United States celebrates its official 246th birthday.
GUEST COMMENTARY - With the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade threatening to severely curtail women’s reproductive rights, it might seem an odd moment to report good news about male birth control.
EDUCATION WATCH - The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently banned school-sponsored prayer in public schools.
JAN 6 COMMITTEE - Trump White House insider and January 6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson provided startling and compelling evidence that Donald Trump deliberately set out to incite an insurrection at the Capitol.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - These are the words of Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent about the current Supreme Court’s overreach in taking the side of Big Oil in West Virginia v. EPA.
GUN VIOLENCE - The spate of mass shootings we've witnessed over the past few weeks has jolted our minds and broken our hearts.
OUR RIGHTS - The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade — and with it, half a century of constitutional precedent.
MY THOUGHTS - I’ve been sifting through both comments and facts regarding the Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade trying to find what kind of punishment men…otherwise known as the impregnators…will suffer if they are responsible for a pregnancy.
VOICE IN THE CHEAP SEATS - Abortions were, are, and will always be controversial. This is because honest people on both sides of the issue can never agree.
GUEST COMMENTARY - When I awoke to a notification that SCOTUS had overturned Roe v. Wade last Friday, like many Americans, my heart sank.
THE VIEW FROM HERE - The Democrats not only killed Roe v Wade, but they have also mortally wounded all forms of Liberty.
ECONOMY WATCH - The growing likelihood of recession, at best sharply lower growth and maybe 1970s-style stagflation, seems likely to further accentuate the class and political divisions already rubbed raw by the pandemic and a global supply crisis.
PRIVACY RIGHTS - In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, privacy experts are increasingly concerned about how data collected from period-tracking apps, among other applications, could potentially be used to penalize anyone seeking or considering an abortion.
GUEST COMMENTARY - "Trump and his allies are a clear and present danger to American democracy."—the Honorable J. Michael Luttig
JAN 6 COMMITTEE - When was the last time a bad word wasn’t bleeped out on a national broadcast?
SCOTUS - On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court's history.
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Whether one is a Dem or a GOP, the great thing about group rights is that it is always someone else’s fault.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Weep for the women whose rights have been stripped away. Grieve for the movement towards a more equitable society cut off at the knees.
GUEST COMMENTARY - Roe v. Wade was just overturned, which marks an overplayed fear among the left side of the political spectrum, ironically during a Democratic Biden administration.
SCOTUS & NRA - The National Rifle Association's decades-long campaign against even the most basic and popular firearm regulations scored another victory Thursday when the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key New York state gun control law, a ruling that could spell doom for similar statutes across the country.
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Pain at the pump is national and international news and there are all sorts of solutions circulating the real world and the metaverse.
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