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So the federal government may shut down midnight on Friday if Republicans and Democrats fail to reach a compromise. The whole affair is rather silly since both parties can easily reach agreement if they wanted to but the high stakes game is amusing for.
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Florida’s governor Charlie Crist abandoned his effort to secure the Republican nomination after a Tea Party candidate, Marco...
made popular Oct 30 2010
Next Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls. This midterm election will determine who controls the House and the Senate for the next two years. Five days to the...
made popular Oct 29 2010
Next Tuesday is expected to be a wash for the Democrats. Triumphant in ‘08, the party has fallen from grace. In a way it is not fair. President Obama inherited...
made popular Oct 29 2010
I remember when Obama won and that same night the Democrats increased their gains in both the House and Senate. Soon, after a several month recount was finished in...
made popular Oct 27 2010
The lifeblood of American politics.
The American political establishment is more enamored with money than any other elite. But the political scene necessitates it....
made popular Sep 29 2010
Groups allied with the Republican Party and financed in part by corporations and millionaires have amassed a crushing 6-to-1 advantage in television spending over those...
made popular Sep 28 2010
We’ll find out in 43 days, as poll after poll shows that both national parties are deeply unpopular with an electorate looking for something new and different....
made popular Sep 20 2010
Glenn Greenwald has a very good post on why there is such a strong “enthusiasm gap” between Democrat and Republican voters this mid-terms.
It is a mirror...
made popular Sep 3 2010
In a previous post I wrote about the hate crimes against Muslims in New York which are due to a climate of blatant bigotry stroked by opponents to the Park51 Islamic...
made popular Aug 27 2010
Where are the Democrats?
Republican opposition to the Park51 Islamic community center - maliciously misrepresented as the “Ground Zero Mosque” - comes...
made popular Aug 25 2010
The Democrats Take A Script From Karl Rove’s Play book.
One of the hallmarks of the Bush years was that the White House and its allies were able to paint...
made popular Jul 30 2010
Former U.S. first lady Laura Bush is going public about a car crash in Midland, Texas, that claimed the life of a high school friend when she was 17.
In her new book,...
made popular Apr 29 2010
One hundred years from now, a browner generation of Americans will occupy this Indian land. They will look back at what happened yesterday and wonder: why did it take...
made popular Mar 23 2010
I don’t have to wait until Sunday to consider it deemed and passed.
Finally, a presidency.
Finally, a healthcare reform, in spite of all the...
made popular Mar 20 2010
Finland’s opposition Social Democrats on Wednesday urged Jyri Häkämies (cons), the defence minister, to call in the army to help keep railway points clear of...
made popular Feb 25 2010
I’m trying to write a novel. It is set in the early 90s. My biggest challenge is to pretend that I do not know the things that happened since then.
I remembered...
made popular Feb 3 2010
The omen for the 2010 mid-term election is not good for Democrats. In the off-year ‘09 gubernatorial elections, the party lost the governor’s mansion in New...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Foreign governments, longtime Democratic fundraisers, entertainers and thousands of individuals gave money to former president Bill Clinton’s charitable...
made popular Jan 2 2010
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Even as the Senate took a significant step toward passing its version of a sweeping overhaul of the health insurance system before Christmas, Democrats were grappling...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Next year Texas will hold its governor’s race and it is expected to be as big as Texas (I know cheesy line). Republican incumbent Rick Perry, who inherited his...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Everybody knows that Colombia would have a more fluid relation with the United States if Senator John McCain had won the presidency last year. With the Democratic Party...
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With Thanksgiving recess now upon us, it seems an appropriate time to revisit the hysterical Republican whoppers and talking points about the Democratic party agenda...
made popular Nov 30 2009
Barack Obama and his Democratic Party were given clear warning yesterday that they face a potentially disastrous 2010 after big Republican victories on Tuesday...
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This Tueday President Barack Obama will face his first electoral test since assuming office. The president is not on the ballot, but in large measure his standing in...
made popular Nov 2 2009
A day after Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the Democratic bill would include the option of a government insurance plan, moderates in his own party lost no...
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical.
Appearing on CBS’...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Democratic staff for the House oversight committee informed their GOP counterparts today that the majority has changed the locks on the committee’s hearing room....
made popular Oct 21 2009
The two draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam War. The first book describes a White House in 1965 being marched into an escalating war by a military viewing...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Obama’s White House session Wednesday comes eight years after the war started and amid new poll statistics showing that support for the conflict in this country...
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Take advice from locals instead of trying to impose your own ideas on a tribal society. Invite the Taliban to the negotiating table....
made popular Oct 1 2009
The leading Senate Democrat on military matters said Thursday that he was against sending more American combat troops to Afghanistan until the United States speeded up...
made popular Sep 11 2009
One of the biggest hypocrisies among Democrat politicians is their opposition to private education for every one else. Democrats are in the pockets of the...
made popular Sep 8 2009
Already two of the thirteen original colonies, Virginia and New Jersey may have wanted to be extra-special in holding their gubernatorial elections in off-years. While...
made popular Sep 4 2009
President Barack Obama’s unrelenting pressure on Israel’s rightist government to agree with a settlement “freeze” may be starting to cause...
made popular Sep 3 2009
Reporting from Washington - As the nation mourned the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Wednesday, President Obama and members of Congress began to size up the toll...
made popular Aug 28 2009
Massachusetts law originally allowed for the governor to make an appoint to a vacant Senate seat until the next scheduled election. But in 2004 with the state’s...
made popular Aug 21 2009
Our Founding Fathers never wanted the president to be all-thing to all-people. They wanted a man who would simply preside, enforce the law and maintain the peace; not...
made popular Aug 17 2009
President Barack Obama knows that the American people do not share his liberal, thus he needs to lie and deceive in order to advance it.
Take health care. The...
made popular Aug 5 2009
Because of some anarchic rule the states of New Jersey and Virginia both hold their gubernatorial elections in off-odd years. Because they are the only states hosting...
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