UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged the Government of Egypt to exercise restraint and protect the rights of its citizens to freedom of expression, information and assembly in line with the country’s legislation and international human rights law. “It has been brought to my attention that since the street protests [...]
Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger 55 years ago. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested after she refused to give her seat to a white person when the bus driver James Blacke told her to. This [...]
With the Congressional elections in his rear view mirror, President Obama looks ahead to working with a Republican House of Representatives with a positive job approval rating of 38% and a negative rating of 62%. This is not much different than where his ratings stood right before the election when 37% of Americans gave him [...]
Strong Latino voter turnout in key battle ground states has demonstrated once again that the growing Hispanic population is having an increasingly profound impact on US elections. Latino Republicans in particular combined strong support from conservatives and Latino voters to win 2 new governorships, 4 new house seats, and a new senate seat more than [...]
During a debate about teaching creationism in the local schools, Delaware’s Republican candidate for the Senate, Christie O’Donnell said something that some consider to be a huge gaffe, others consider it to be right: she said that she didn’t know in what part of the US Constitution the idea about separation of church and state [...]
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has canceled 2004 constitutional reform yesterday. The final and unchallengeable decision was announced yesterday by the Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Anatoliy Holovin. With the decision coming into force Ukraine reestablishes the presidential-parliamentary republic according to the initial version of the Constitution adopted in 1996. The hearings on [...]
The House Republicans have released the “Pledge to America“, a document that will be officially unveiled tomorrow. The Pledge to America talks about the principles all Americans stand on, the priorities and the urgent actions we need to take in order to repair our economy and reclaim the government for the people. The Republicans hope [...]
Today we celebrate 90 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Google celebrates this important day with a message below the search bar. Why Google didn’t do a Google Doodle is a mystery! The Google message states “90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment”. Although the United States of [...]
Sean Duffy, the star of MTV’s The Real World reality series, who was between others a lumberjack and an athlete has now decided to pursue a bid for a Congressional Seat in Wisconsin. Duffy was also an actor in an independent movie about gay marriage. People will probably start asking why the Republicans chose him [...]
Senator Robert Byrd has passed away at the age of 92, and West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin could fill in. Robert Byrd was 92 and his passing makes things a bit complicated for the Democrats in Congress. The Democrats’ majority is now 58 to 41. This means that they need two more votes for a [...]