Tag: war on christmas
Littwin: The real war on Christmas
Christmas movies are all about the happy ending. Carelessly switch to one of the cable TV news stations, though, and the game is up.
Wiretap: Trickle down failed Black Friday
The Black Friday numbers were not great. This says a lot about the state of the economy. But it says even more about the need to raise the minimum wage.
Lunchtime links: Wealthy Republican lawmakers want tax cuts; Americans want jobs
The Bush tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit millionaire Washington DC lawmakers in relation to the rest of the nation's population, are a low...
Controversial Schultheis public schools religion bill ends in a whimper
DENVER-- A controversial bill that sought to expand space for religion in Colorado's public schools failed to make it out of committee Monday. Even before the hearing began, the bill's sponsor, Christian conservative state Sen. Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, seemed to have accepted the fact that his "Public School Religious Bill of Rights" would very likely fail to pass and so offered amendments that significantly weakened its provisions. In the end, so little was left of the bill that the majority Democratic committee members said it simply offered no new provisions on the matter. In the end, the four Democrats voted against the bill and the three Republicans voted for it.