Socialism is one of the most controversial word used in United States’ politics today. Inspired by the blog post by Daily Kos user, the TheNewDeal00, here are 75 ways socialism has improved America.
If that sounds like a complete violation of church/state separation, you’d be correct. Mater Dei High School can pay for its own renovations; the taxpayers shouldn’t be funding them.
And that’s what the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Legal Fellow Ryan Jayne said in a letter to the Council a couple of weeks ago.
We are writing to object to the proposed grant to Mater Dei because distributing public money to a private religious school violates both the Federal Constitution and the California state constitution.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from supporting religious activities with public funds… The city of Santa Ana violates this principle when it funds the expansion of a private parochial school.
The letter worked. The City Council informed Jayne recently that the agenda item to give the money to the Catholic school has been removed from consideration.
FFRF is elated at the city’s about-face.
“We were dismayed that Santa Ana was possibly going to channel millions of taxpayer dollars to a sectarian religious entity,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “We’re glad that it saw the light.”
That’s $2.5 million that the city can now use for public institutions, just as it should be.
h/t: Friendly Atheist
Britain has voted to leave the European Union by a narrow majority. Sadly, many of the things I warned about in my last video have already happened: David Cameron has resigned, the rightwing of the Tory party is poised to take over, there’s a coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn underway, the SNP look likely to trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence, , the pound has tanked and the economy has slumped and there’s been a spike in racist incidents. We have to respect the democratic process and accept the result but we must fight against the most severe consequences of the Brexit result. Now is not the time to mourn, now is the time to organise.
Thom explains what Neoliberalism is and why it’s a cancer on our political and economic systems.
TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) covered a panel on the mainstream media’s coverage of the 2016 campaign at The People’s Summit in Chicago, Illinois on June 18th, 2016.
On the panel, New York Daily News Columnist Shaun King (@ShaunKing) spoke about the challenges of going up against establishment media members on stories like leaked DNC memos showing collusion between the DNC an Hillary Clinton.
King also gave a shout out to TYT Politics own Chariton on his work.
Anonymous has announced it’s #OPJillStein initiative to end the media blackout of Jill Stein. They are encouraging everyone to disseminate information about Jill Stein and to demand that she be included in national debates. This is an initiative we can all get behind!
Failed Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee should have thought twice about using the song “Eye of the Tiger” during one of his hate-filled rallies with Kim Davis. The Huckster now has to pony up $25k for illegally using the song to spread his hateful message.
Likely Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein said Wednesday voters “badly” want a change, urging them to support her in November if they wanted to fix America’s broken political system, and rigged economy.
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