Category Archives: Bad Deeds

  Republicans Are Cheating Texas Minorities of Representation • Texas received four new congressional districts only because of Hispanic and African American Population growth. • The number of Hispanic Texans grew at 10 times the rate of Anglos. African American … Continue reading →

  House Republicans Move to Gut the Clean Water Act – On Thursday, the House passed a bill that effectively eliminates federal oversight on water standards. The bill rolls back the Clean Water Act, returning most oversight to the states, … Continue reading →

  Secret Alliance of Corporations and Conservative Legislators Have Been Predetermining Legislation for All 50 States – Behind the closed doors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that … Continue reading →

  Rick Perry’s Preacher Says Oprah is the Harbinger of the Anti-Christ – Governor of Texas and potential GOP 2012 candidate Rick Perry is touting a national prayer event in Texas in early August. Footage of the evangelical preacher he … Continue reading →

  New Republican Voter Suppression Tactic – The Republican-controlled Ohio House tweaked a bill to weaken a law mandating poll workers to direct voters in the wrong precinct to their correct voting location. Under the new language, a poll worker … Continue reading →

  Republican: Only Millionaires “Actually Worked Hard” – Why are Republicans so intent on protecting the top .03 percent of Minnesotans from paying any increase in taxes, preferring instead to cut health care services for the poor, the sick and … Continue reading →

  The Good Times For Chief Executives Just Keep Getting Better – But Not For the Rest of Us Philippe Dauman of Viacom’s executive pay in 2010. A study conducted by Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, shows that the … Continue reading →

  Republican Eric Cantor is Betting Against America – When Eric Cantor shut down debt ceiling negotiations last week, it did more than just rekindle fears that the U.S. government might soon default on its debt obligations — it also … Continue reading →

  Texas Creates Jobs the Same Way as Other Third-World Countries Do – Union-hating Texas has created a lot of jobs, but its unemployment rate of 7.7% is the same as New York’s, a blue state with a the largest … Continue reading →

  The Wealthy Are Doing Better Than Ever, While Everyone Else Suffers [Here is a sampling of the information on 15 statistics:] The wealthiest 1% of all Americans now own more than a third of all the wealth in the … Continue reading →