Tuesday, December 1:

Rob Kall: Failure to Embrace Power; Obama's, Democrats' Betrayal (25 comments) Americans gave Obama and Congress incredible power. So far they have miserably failed to exercise it. That is a treacherous, sad betrayal that will hand the Whitehouse and congress to the Republicans by 2012. They can turn it around, but it will require bold, courageous leadership we have not yet seen. That leadership must come from within the Democratic party-- from within the congress, from within the Obama White House. If

Saturday, November 28:

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: New push in Venezuela's agrarian reform arouses violent verbal PR reaction A recent push by the Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Ministry and the National Lands Institute (INTI) to recover more land for peasants in Guarico State and Lake Maracaibo South Bank has aroused a violent verbal and PR reaction by ranchers and opposition media, accusing the government of imitating Richard Mugabe's land grab of farms belonging to white farmers in Zimbabwe.

Friday, November 27:

Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists' Like so many of the Republicans they try to emulate, the conservative Democrats claim to worry about spending and deficits—except with respect to programs that benefit them, their favorite constituents or the lobbyists who pay their campaign expenses.

Thursday, November 26:

Obama and fellow Democrats at odds about troop increase for Afghanistan Top Democrats have made it clear to Obama that he will not receive a friendly reception should he announce what is considered the leading option: sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

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