I don t know whether this long-term trend has made people bitter or not, but whereas Kristol tried to compare Senator Obama to Marx for implying that religion is the opiate of the people , the relevant political thinker to cite is not Marx but Thomas Jefferson.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sent out a strong memo to undecided superdelegates via CNN on Thursday: Make up your minds — sooner rather than later. "I need them to say who they're for, starting now," Mr. Dean told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.
Last July, at a time when his campaign was struggling, McCain indicated that he would take matching federal funds for his primary effort. Later, he kept his campaign afloat by taking out a bank loan that, according to Democrats, promised the matching funds as collateral.
With your performance tonight -- your focus on issues that were at best trivial wastes of valuable airtime and at worst restatements of right-wing falsehoods punctuated by inane "issue" questions that in no way resembled the real world concerns of American voters -- you disgrace …
Beginning today, a band of liberal Jews intends to transform the terms of the American debate over Israel -- among the most delicate, controversial and combustible topics in politics. And right on time for Passover, the Jewish holiday marking deliverance from bondage.
Their bill would permanently repeal the spending limitations imposed by the 1992 Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, while preserving the requirement that all tax increases be approved by voters.
In early 1998, now-jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff sent a secret memo to a textile tycoon on the Northern Mariana Islands, an American protectorate whose garment factories had been heavily criticized for squalid working conditions and abusive labor practices.
Just before boarding a plane to the Mariana Islands in 1999, then-Congressman Bob Schaffer announced he was embarking on a fact-finding mission to get to the bottom of repeated allegations of labor abuse in the American protectorate.
The nation s election watchdog sits paralyzed—unable to meet, give advice, fashion new rules or open investigations, even as the most intense presidential campaign in recent memory rages on.
Texas state officials raid a Mormon fundamentalist compound, removing hundreds of endangered children the same day rumors float about regarding Condi Rice as a VP prospect. Wonder what Mitt Romney thinks about this?
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So, two decades after vanishing in a puff of smoke, diesels seem poised to reappear on the American landscape. Your correspondent will be among the first to plonk down his cash the moment diesel versions of family runabouts arrive.
Check out his latest nonsense-filled mess from The Denver Post in which Andrews - the man who was largely responsible for Republicans losing control of the state in the first place - talks about the "bright future" for Republicans in years to come
We can't believe he brought up the Northern Marianas experience with immigrant labor as a good thing. Seriously, we're floored by this.
I just had the strangest experience. A presidential candidate gave me back my donation, told me would not accept it because of what I do for a living, and it left me more committeed to the candidate and conviced that he is the person that must be the next president.
before winter becomes a distant memory, I want to call attention to something that most Colorado residents probably took for granted this winter -- the fact that snowplows, fire engines, and thousands of other city vehicles and equipment in both Denver and Colorado Springs operat …
If 20 years ago I had predicted one of the most popular bands of the post-millennium would sound like a mélange of Beach Boys surf music and Public Enemy sonic collage with the angst-ridden lyrical content of Depeche Mode -- all created by a band that doesn't actually play instr …
What--a thoughtful plan for Iraq? Written by aspiring Democratic House members? Campaigning in highly competitive districts? Believe it.
Look at the figure below, and then look at it again, and again, and again. It is the most telling picture about the U.S. political economy I have ever seen.
If the fight over whether to count the results in Florida and Michigan makes it to the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton will not have enough pledged votes on the 169-member Credentials Committee to deliver a majority decision in her favor, according to an analysis …
It's hardly necessary for me to point out that the United States did not receive national health care in return for its acquiescence in the murder of tens of thousands of European civilians. But perhaps that is the least of it. Were I to be asked if Sen.
If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate stages.
In fact, Colorado now looks bluer than a half-drowned Smurf. It s got a Democratic governor, House, Senate and high court.
The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall syste …
Remember Friday March 14 2008: it was the day the dream of global free- market capitalism died. For three decades we have moved towards market-driven financial systems.
The past 10 days will be remembered as the time the U.S. government discarded a half-century of rules to save American financial capitalism from collapse.
As dumbness has been defined downward in American public life during the last two decades, one of the most important and frequently overlooked culprits is the public's increasing reluctance to give a fair hearing -- or any hearing at all -- to opposing points of view.
I don t know whether this long-term trend has made people bitter or not, but whereas Kristol tried to compare Senator Obama to Marx for implying that religion is the opiate of the people , the relevant political thinker to cite is not Marx but Thomas Jefferson.
Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich on Friday endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, sent out a strong memo to undecided superdelegates via CNN on Thursday: Make up your minds — sooner rather than later. "I need them to say who they're for, starting now," Mr. Dean told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.
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