On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, signed the Social Security Act into law. Since that time, Social Security has been protected by Democratic presidents and Democratic Congresses. FDR signing Social Security into […]
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President celebrated […]
Hi. This morning, when I thought about that debate, my heart just wanted to curl up & hide in a corner. I can’t stand all the awful things that will be said, the horrible ideas, […]
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Democrat, signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Handing the Pen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The new law of the land: SEC. 2. No voting […]
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Texas’s Voter ID Law One day before the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country wielded that law to […]
From American University in Washington DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA: And if the rhetoric [against this deal]… sounds familiar, it should, for many of the same people who argued for the war in Iraq are now making […]
As we have moved into a primary cycle and the subject of the working class is on the lips of activists and politicians, I know the images that term evokes in the minds-eye of many […]
From the White House: In the East Room of the White House, President Obama announces the Clean Power Plan — our biggest step yet in the fight against climate change. The plan is a landmark […]
Many reviewers note the year of 1959 as perhaps the apex of modern (post-WW II) instrumental jazz, with at least three landmark albums symbolizing the era, and all issued on Columbia: Kind of Blue – […]
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