A Tomahawk missile bound for Libya launched from a US warship (US Navy photo)
WILL CONGRESS “DEFUND” OBAMA’S MILITARY ACTION IN LIBYA?
(Cleveland Plain-Dealer)
That is the aim of Rep. Dennis Kucinich D-OH), who continues to insist that President Obama’s decision to go to “war” in Libya was “wrong” and the president’s failure to come to Congress for authorization “has serious implications for our democracy.” Kucinich made headlines for describing the Libya intervention as an impeachable offense, but now he is going directly after funding for the mission in a bid to force the US to pull back. In a letter sent to his colleagues in Congress Rep. Kucinich announced his intention to defund military operations against Libya that will cost the United States $30 to $100 million per week. After the “quagmires” of Iraq and Afghanistan, Libya is a “war we cannot afford.”
LETTER FROM REP. KUCINICH TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
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ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS, “THE BARBARIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT THE GATES. NOW THE GATES ARE OPEN.”
(Christian Science Monitor)
A mandatory visit to anti-abortion counseling centers and a three-day waiting period before a woman in South Dakota can get an abortion are the consequences of legislation signed into law on Tuesday by Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard that gives the state some of the most severe restrictions on abortion rights in the country. South Dakota’s governor and conservative activists call the bill “common sense” and a way to force women to make “good choices” if they’re considering having an abortion. Pro-choice and women’s rights advocates call the restrictions the work of “barbarians” and an unconstitutional assault on basic freedoms. The new law will likely be challenged in court — costing the state millions in legal bills — where some believe there is a good chance it will be struck down.
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS DEAL A SHARP LEGAL BLOW TO CALIFORNIA’S NEW “CAP-AND-TRADE” RULES.
(San Jose Mercury News)
When is a law designed to combat climate change and that is hailed by some as a landmark in the fight to curb industrial carbon emissions really a scheme to allow “the most entrenched polluters to increase pollution”? When it lets corporations and industry off the hook for massive emissions by simply planting trees or buying carbon “credits.” That’s the charge leveled by a group of environmentalists at California’s cap-and-trade program that has still yet to be officially launched. That launch date will now be pushed back even further after a judge ruled against the state and in favor of the environmentalists challenging the law on the grounds that it doesn’t do enough to punish major polluters and will do little to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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“THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA” MAY “DESERVE TRANSPARENCY,” BUT THEY WON’T BE TREATED TO IT ANY TIME SOON FROM THEIR STATE LEGISLATURE.
(St. Petersburg Times)
A bill that would tighten ethics rules and impose restrictions on what legislation lawmakers can vote on if they would stand to benefit from it is killed under mysterious circumstances in the state senate. Senate President Mike Haridopolos once co-sponsored the bill that would enact recommendations from a grand jury case detailing rampant corruption in Florida politics, but now his office has removed the legislation from the senate’s agenda without comment. Sen. Paula Dockery, who supported the bill, said that “the people of the state of Florida deserve transparency” and lawmakers ought not to be allowed to vote on legislation from which they would “financially benefit as a result of a certain outcome.”
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