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Friday, March 28, 2008 Conservatives for Obama
Andrew Bracevich explains why good conservatives should vote for Obama rather than pseudo conservative McCain.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Ranchers and Army Are at Odds in Old West (1 comments)
"You have the military fighting for the freedom of other people overseas, and we're losing our own back home," he said. " It makes no sense."
Sunday, April 8, 2007 Thousands in LA Demand Immigration Rights (1 comments)
Many were angry about a White House plan that would...require them to return home to apply for U.S. residency and pay a $10,000 fine.
Sunday, April 8, 2007 Restoring the Rule of Law (2 comments)
Senator Edward Kennedy| Statement
...remarks ...at an event organized by the Alliance for Justice on Wednesday, March 29, 2007.
Thursday, March 29, 2007 Fighting Mega-Retailers (1 comments)
...find out where local business is pushing back against mega-retailers.
Sunday, March 25, 2007 U. S. attorney candidate can't practice law (1 comments)
Congressman Dave Reichert has come to the defence of John McKay, a fellow Republican and former U.S. attorney...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Firings furor puts Gonzales on hot seat (1 comments)
Did the attorney general mislead Congress about the firings of eight US attorneys?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Home-loan trouble spurs fears of US 'credit crunch' (1 comments)
AS more homeowners run into trouble making loan payments, it is not just borrowers and lenders who are at risk, but the US economy as well.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 McKay "stunned" by report on Bush (1 comments)
McKay doesn't know if Republican unhappiness over his handling of the 2004 election cost him his job...
Monday, March 12, 2007 Immigration raids split kids from moms (6 comments)
When illegal-immigrant parents are swept up in raids on homes and workplaces, the children are sometimes left behind--
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Everyone's safer off the streets (1 comments)
These are people who have served their time and been released from prison to nowhere.
Sunday, March 4, 2007 The odd world of Val Stevens (1 comments)
State Sen. Val Stevens has put her extreme views on display in outlandish, disappointing and, in one case, potentially dangerous ways.
Saturday, March 3, 2007 Impeachment resolution gets one-sided hearing (3 comments)
Democrats including state Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, have criticized the move.
Saturday, February 10, 2007 Rupert Cornwell | The Great Black Hope (1 comments)
The first major black candidate of the 21st century will throw his hat in the presidential ring at the old State Capitol building, ....
Monday, February 5, 2007 Rebuild New Orleans, Rebuild America (1 comments)
For a time public discussion again focussed on the fact that the poverty of New Orleans, far from being an isolated situation,exemplifies a national problem.
Sunday, February 4, 2007 How To End The War (1 comments)
Our founders wisely kept the power to fund a war separate from the power to conduct a war.
Friday, February 2, 2007 Florida Shifting to Voting System with Paper Trail (1 comments)
Voting experts said Florida's move could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Bush, congressional leaders plan new dialogue on terror (5 comments)
Many in Congress including some Republicans have challenged President Bush's declaration that "I am the decision-maker" on issues of war.
Friday, January 26, 2007 New Coalition Aims to Keep Democrats in Check (1 comments)
This week a group of organizers from labor and the liberal movement are banding together to hold Democrats in line on populist issues....
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 A Speech Bordering On Criminal (2 comments)
There ought to be a law against presidents delivering State of the Union addresses that contain the number of fallacies, inconsistencies and duplicitous statements that President Bush's address to Congress contained last night.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Minimum wage hike hits the wall in Senate (2 comments)
Democrats promise of a quick increase in the minimum wage ran aground Wednesday in the Senate....
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Educators Assail No Child Left Behind (10 comments)
Almost all in a poll sent out by Colorado's Senator Ken Salazar say the federal law's goals are not achievable
Friday, January 19, 2007 Senate Passes Democrats' Ethics Bill (2 comments)
Passage of the bill came a day after the measure appeared dead, the victim of a test of will between the two parties.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Bush Must Go (2 comments)
Only impeachment can stop him.
Sunday, January 14, 2007 Housing Bubble Bloodbath (2 comments)
Alan Greenspan's low interest-rate bonanza triggered a stampede of speculation in the real estate market that set the stage for the biggest economic bust in American history.
Friday, January 12, 2007 Governors Lose in Power Struggle Over National Guard (2 comments)
A little-noticed change in federal law changes who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.
Friday, January 5, 2007 The 110th Congress: A Call For Accountability (3 comments)
When the 110th Congress convenes it's greatest challenge will be to establish the accountability required to restore public faith in American government.
Friday, January 5, 2007 New Job Title for Druggists: Diabetes Coach (3 comments)
A public health experiment in Asheville, N.C., provides a ray of hope in combating diabetes.
Friday, January 5, 2007 Democrats urge Bush to find a way out of Iraq (3 comments)
Democratic congressional leaders have signaled that any plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq could receive a cool reception....
Friday, January 5, 2007 What Dems should do: Your e-mails (10 comments)
Here is a selection of responses to the question of what should be at the top of the legislative agenda.
Friday, January 5, 2007 How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say (3 comments)
Orders to cater to creationists makes national park agnostic on geology. Age of Grand Canyon withheld to cater to creationists.
Friday, January 5, 2007 And the Empire Mourned.... (3 comments)
Dissecting the Big Lie.
In the wake of the United States' recent facilitation of Saddam Hussein's hanging, we in the self-proclaimed "bastion of human rights" are in the midst of six days of mourning for a man would have swung from the gallows long ago had he been judged by the same standards as Saddam.
Thursday, January 4, 2007 America's Holy Warriors (3 comments)
The radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to it's goal of co-opting the country's military and law enforcement sectors.
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Heroes and Zeros of 2006 (3 comments)
The competition is fierce for the dubious honor of Zero of 2006.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Edwards Pushing Universal Health Care (3 comments)
John Edwards says it's more important to invest in universal health care and lifting people out of poverty than to reduce the budget deficit.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Ford Left Scars As Well (3 comments)
Gerald Ford was also a roadblock to justice and to much-needed reform.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Puppet Kills Puppet (3 comments)
Saddam was indeed a ruthless dictator, true, but specifically ruthless on behalf of his benefactors: US multinational petroleum and arms dealers and their patrons well-placed in Washington.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Capital residents may finally get vote in Congress (3 comments)
After more tha 200 years of paying taxes, fighting in the nation's wars and abiding by the sometimes arbitrary acts of Congress, Washington residents are close to getting a full-fledged representative in the House.
Monday, January 1, 2007 US Deaths in Iraq Mark Increased Presence (3 comments)
In a little-known museum tucked away on the grounds of an Army post near Richmond, a memorial wall just inside the door quietly announjces a profound change in the nation's fighting force.
Monday, January 1, 2007 Chaining the beast in presidential elections (3 comments)
Fines against three '527' groups for their role in the 2004 elections are too little, too late.
Monday, January 1, 2007 Do Bananas Do a Brain Good? (3 comments)
Grab a banana and say bye-bye to Parkinson's disease?
Monday, January 1, 2007 House Democrats to Object to Florida Election Outcome (5 comments)
Demmocrats said Friday that they would open the new Congress by formally objecting to the election result in Florida's 13th District,...
Sunday, December 31, 2006 The price of House inaction (3 comments)
Congress passed only 2 of 11 appropriations bills. Now some federal agencies don't have the funds that they need.
Saturday, December 30, 2006 A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America (3 comments)
"Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed...."
Saturday, December 30, 2006 Elder-Care Costs Deplete Savings of a Generation (3 comments)
Never before has old age lasted so long or been so costly, compromising the retirement of baby boomers.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Democrats to revisit detainee issues (3 comments)
Senate Democrats plan to use their newfound power to revisit one of the most contentious national security matters of 2006.
Friday, December 29, 2006 Our Founding Illegals (3 comments)
Every nation is a nation of immigrants. But the immigrant experience in the United States is justly celebrated, and perhaps no aspect of that experience is more quintessentially American then our long heritage of illegal immigration.
Thursday, December 28, 2006 Pork No Longer Paves the Road to Re-election (3 comments)
The abuse of earmarks cost two Senators and four House members their seats in the last election.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Testing the Waters, Obama Tests His Own Limits (3 comments)
Senator Barack Obama's aides wonder if he can meet lofty expectations,which have elevated him beyond a politician's normal realm.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Abolish Presidential Term Limits (8 comments)
Under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, Mr. Bush is barred from seeking a third term of office. So he doesn't have to worry about his dreadful poll numbers November's disastrous congressional elections, or anything else. If he faced re-election, maybe he'd act like he cared.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Bush Is Bracing for New Scrutiny (4 comments)
President Bush is bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations by the new Democratic-led Congrees by hiring lawyers to fill key White House posts
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 Troop "Surge" Plan for Iraq Meets Growing Opposition in US (4 comments)
The idea of having more American troops go to Iraq does not sit well with the public, and signals that emerged from Capital Hill Sunday indicated the White House may face a very uphill battle if, as expected, it embraces the proposal to pour up to 30,000 new troops into Iraq.
Sunday, December 24, 2006 Election Challenge for Florida District is Taken to the House (3 comments)
Christine Jennings, Democrat, informed Congress last week that she was contesting the congressional election in Florida's 13th District in the courts and could ask for resolution by the Congress. She claims that electronic voting machines malfunctioned and that state officials wrongly certified the election in favor of Republican Vern Buchanan.
Sunday, December 24, 2006 Impending Police State in America (10 comments)
Professor Francis Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration camps are in place and US citizens are the targets.
