Gabrielle Giffords, New York Times
SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them.On Wednesday, a minority of senators gave into fear and blocked common-sense legislation that would have made it harder for... Read More (Opens In A New Tab)
During the big health care fight, the right told older Americans that Obamacare was grabbing money from their Medicare and giving it to young people. Now it tells young workers that Medicare and Social Security are draining their take-home pay to support retirees sitting around the pool.
The story, it would seem, moves from the young taking from the old to the old taking from the young. The one constant here is the motive: to weaken public support for government programs offering Americans a modicum of economic and health care security.
We can all agree that entitlement spending must be... Read More (Opens In A New Tab)
OXNARD, California (Reuters) - California farm worker Antonia Espinoza would likely be throwing in the towel and heading back to her native Mexico to see her children, if not for the work of eight U.S. senators in Washington.
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Rachelle Cohen, Boston Herald
On the Tuesday after the Boston Marathon, it’s always as if gremlins have come in overnight to clear away the usual post-race debris. The stands, the railings that hold back pedestrians are always picked up by trucks that run all night. The photographers’ perch over the Boylston Street finish line — always gone. Read More (Opens In A New Tab)
On the Tuesday after the Boston Marathon, it’s always as if gremlins have come in overnight to clear away the usual post-race debris. The stands, the railings that hold back pedestrians are always picked up by trucks that run all night. The photographers’ perch over the Boylston Street finish line — always gone. Read More (Opens In A New Tab)
The death toll in Boston was smaller than many multi-car traffic accidents around the country, but scores of blast survivors suffered horrific injuries that were plotted by someone -- a killer or killers -- who got away.
At least one of the bombs may have been packed into a bulky pressure cooker and transported in a black bag and may have been shoved into a city trash receptacle -- on streets that were swept for possible explosives by authorities at least twice Monday before the 26.2 mile road race began.
The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard; 29-year-old Boston restaurant manager... Read More (Opens In A New Tab)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday unveiled long-awaited landmark legislation to remove the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants and give them an opportunity to eventually become U.S. citizens.
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