Is Performing an Abortion Like Killing a Chicken on Facebook?
Abortion rights advocates often tire of metaphors from men about what abortion really is. Here’s a new one: is it like killing a chicken on Facebook? Last month, Representative Mike Moon (R-MO), a Missouri State representative, conducted a Facebook Live video in which he cut off a live chicken’s head, …
This One’s for the Daughters
via What the Edge with Sallie Krawcheck This one’s for the daughters. And the lives we want for them. I really adore men. I love my gentlemanly father. My brother is my best friend. My husband keeps us all together. And my son is dead set on fighting the world’s …
This Week’s Window On Congress
The Week of Monday, July 17, 2017 Congress is tackling bills this week that range widely, from big infrastructure changes, to bills addressing the future of hydroelectric energy. The three bills that Daily Clout chose for you to watch this week are the Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act, the Enhancing …
What’s Actually In the New Healthcare Plan?
This week Daily Clout uses BillCam to take a look at the new Health Care legislation in the Senate. Everyone wants to know what’s in the recent version of the American Healthcare Act, which was created behind closed doors in the Senate. We’ve cut through the legal language to bring …
A Female Science and Tech Pioneer about whose Breakthrough Discovery You May Not Have been Taught in High School: Dr Nancy Kemeny
A shout out to our pioneers who are women in the sciences and medicine — whose breakthroughs, history shows, are often under-recognized in medical or scientific history. Dr. Nancy Kemeny of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital is responsible for groundbreaking research. She came to this country as a child without …
Democracy and Civic Participation For a healthy and vibrant democracy to be sustained, people need to be informed, educated, and engaged. The concept of the “Townsquare” or Athenian agora, a meeting place where people of all ages can meet and share political ideas and experiences is largely missing from our …
School Solitary Confinement: Should Disabled Children be Locked in School Closets?
On July 10, 2010, school solitary confinement, also known as school seclusion, was banned in Georgia by the Department of Education. Parents, writers, and lawyers had been advocating against the practice for years. Old rules for school seclusion stated that isolation rooms should be well-lit, and large enough for students …
Free College Tuition in New York State! Too Good to be True?
Do you think college tuition costs too much? So do I! New York State Legislature just passed an amendment to the state’s Executive Budget, “New York’s Tuition-Free College Degree Program, The Excelsior Scholarship,” that seems to be the answer to thousands of college students’ financial woes. The program, which was passed …
Legislation You Can’t Miss: Fair Day in Court for Kids Act
Newsletters from DailyClout solve a huge problem: legislation that deeply affects us all is hard to find and harder to understand. Each week, we read and bullet-point in real human language, what is actually in a bill — State or Federal — that was newsworthy this week or viral on …
What’s Really In Those Immigration Executive Orders?
For over a decade, I have looked at detention and deportation issues in the US. As a professor at Stony Brook University, I often find that what policymakers promise that immigration policies will do does not line up with what actually happens. I have also learned to be wary of the hidden influences …
Want to Be President? Show Tax Returns
On April 15th, Tax Day, activists from forty-eight states around the country are planning to host marches in protest of President Donald Trump’s decision to not release his tax returns to the public. While Trump is not legally required to make this information public, he is the first President in forty years to choose to …
Should a Man Have to Swear on a Bible to Get Viagra?
Earlier this year, the Governor of Arkansas signed into law a bill that allows potential baby-daddies to veto abortions that are being sought by women who are pregnant with those men’s potential children. Notably, only eighteen per cent of the State of Arkansas’ lawmakers are women. This kind of headline is hardly news anymore. There have been countless bills …
EXCLUSIVE: DailyClout Interviews Rep. French Hill (R-AR) on His Bill, the Shift Back to Society Act of 2017
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Rep. French Hill (R-AR): Former Inmates Need Education — Not $35.00 And a Change of Clothes
Recently, DailyClout took a bus to Washington D.C., for an exclusive interview with Representative French Hill (R-AR). It was our first invitation to meet with a member of Congress on Capitol Hill. We were drawn by the innovation of Rep. Hill’s proposed “Shift Back to Society Act of 2017.” This …
Maine State Senator Joins the Healthcare Fray With a Bill of His Own
Mother and daughter with doctor in doctor’s office This week, President Trump’s administration has been pushing hard to get support for the repeal of Obamacare. The President’s goal is to replace the Affordable Care Act as quickly as possible and is supporting a specific bill, The American Health Care Act of 2017 …
Are Assault Weapons Are Unconstitutional? A Federal Appeals Court in Maryland Says Yes
single rifle bullet on paper target for shooting practice On Tuesday, February 21st, a decision a by Federal Appeals Court upheld Maryland’s ban on forty-five different kinds of assault weapons, as the Huffington Post reported. In his decision, Judge Robert King, a Judge who had helped uphold the Maryland ban on assault weapons, wrote that weapons such as M-16s are “most …
California Assemblywoman Won’t Stop Fighting to Remove the Tampon Tax; Tax Drinks Instead
Last year, California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia introduced and passed a bill to remove the tax on tampons and other menstrual products in California. California Governor, Jerry Brown, however, vetoed the bill, saying that his state had too many budget problems and so could not afford to get rid of the tax. “Tax breaks are the …
Is President Trump’s Continued Family Control of his Business Violating the Part of the Constitution that Forbids Presidents from Taking Bribes from Foreign Powers?
When President Donald Trump was elected, he promised that he would “drain the swamp” of corrupt politicians in Washington D.C. As it turns out, however, the President’s currently-maintained ties to the Trump Organization, his business empire, may be more than just a potentially corrupting conflict of interest — they might in …
Who Is Luther Strange? — Alabama’s Mysterious Unelected Senator
Did you know that we have a Senator sitting in the Senate who was hand-picked by a Governor — and who who has never actually been elected? That’s the unexpected case with Luther Strange — a Republican Senator who now represents Alabama, though he was never voted by Alabamans. More than that: some people think …