“According to a Medicare Trustees report, the steps we took this year to reform the health care system have put Medicare on a sounder financial footing. We’ve made Medicare more solvent by going after waste, fraud, and abuse – not by changing seniors’ guaranteed benefits. In fact, seniors are starting to see that because of health reform, their benefits are getting better all the time.”
Rep. Loretta Sanchez took a tour of one of Santa Ana’s fastest growing techology company’s this afternoon and spoke with employees about the economic stimulus […]
Hand it to State Rep. Chuck DeVore; he manned up and apologized to musician Don Henley over the unauthorized use of Henley’s songs to go […]
In his eloquent “Letter From a Birmingham Jail†written in response to white ministers who criticized nonviolent activist tactics, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote powerfully, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.†It greatly bothered King that white Christians could stand by idly while oppression of fellow human beings continued unabated, “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.â€
 Elena Kagan has been confirmed by the Senate and will become the fourth woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. MSNBC is reporting […]
The New York Times has one of the best editorials on the Proposition 8 decision from yesterday.
From the editorial: “The judge easily dismissed the idea that discrimination is permissible if a majority of voters approve it; the referendum’s outcome was “irrelevant,†he said, quoting a 1943 case, because “fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote.â€
He then dismantled, brick by crumbling brick, the weak case made by supporters of Proposition 8 and laid out the facts presented in testimony. The two witnesses called by the supporters (the state having bowed out of the case) had no credibility, he said, and presented no evidence that same-sex marriage harmed society or the institution of marriage.”
Anyone who has driven around South County has seen people at street corners with signs asking for help. Â Â Many have been out of work, […]
U. S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker has issued a landmark decision declaring that Proposition 8, banning same-gender marriage is unconstitutional.
“The United States Constitution guarantees that all persons shall be treated equally under the law;” said Chris Prevatt, spokesman for the Harvey Milk Stonewall Democratic Club of Orange County. “The U.S. Supreme Court rulled decades ago, that marriage is a fundamental right, when it overturned state laws banning inter-racial marriages.”
A federal judge has ruled that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. More details here from the Associated Press.  By LISA LEFF The Associated Press […]
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