When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 their leadership announced with great fanfare that they were going to do battle with out-of-control earmark spending, reining in the lawmakers’ personal pork projects and making them more transparent.
Pitching himself to voters as a centrist candidate with a slight adjustment to the left who appeals to both sides of the political aisle and is a prototypical outsider is going to be a tough sell for Barack Obama who has supported his party’s line for the two years he has been in the Senate and is advised by leading insiders.
The debate over so-called "warrantless wiretapping" is heating up again.
It is dawning on us that frightening gasoline prices, the demoralizing housing slump, job layoffs, drained savings accounts and higher health costs are not going away.
"Why It’s Worse Than You Think," screamed the headline of a Newsweek story this month. It argues that the Pollyannas who promised a quick recovery in the second half of 2008 were "dead wrong."
In President Bush’s farewell visit to Europe, reminiscence, valediction and even eulogies have trailed him.
The attack on the Guantánamo military commission system will directly challenge a declaration by the Justice Department stating that detainee trials would continue.
Powell tells B.C. crowd he might vote for Obama
You know you are in trouble when the most popular man in your own party is going to vote for the other guy!
This is a good sign!
It’s about time the elected Iraqi Prime Minister showed some guts and stood up to Bush and his cronies!
After all, they declared Mission Accomplished, over 5 years ago.
Income inequality is killing us — literally. The gap in wealth and income between the upper 2% of the population and the middle and lower 80% is larger today than at any time since the 1920’s. The sagging economy of today is a disaster for millions of hard working Americans. It is a distant curiosity to the few who earn as much as $3.7 billion dollars this year. Do you know who is paying that salary? You are. You are being robbed.
Members of the space shuttle Discovery crew noticed an object floating away from the shuttle into space.