We're often told by our politicians that "It's just not the right time," to do the right thing in full. It's time for that excuse to expire.
This BP oil crisis is so frustrating, nothing we can do about it so instead of "fuming" over it, why not try to "lighten" up? So, today's music thread is all about fuel, fire, burning, combusting, power, everything that...
I think the Fed is being scapegoated to some extent, but like the CIA failures, the financial system collapse did happen on their watch and I support Congress in creating new financial oversight agencies to prevent future financial collapses...
I am a Virginian. My mother was a Virginian, and so was her father. His family came to the colonies out of necessity and choice. During the English Civil War in the 1640s, my ever-so-many-great grandfather backed the losing...
Blogs don't make the evening news; angry mobs do. Is Krugman, like the WH, trying to motivate the "progressives" to take to the streets, and be SEEN as well as heard?
This morning the office of Senator Evan Bayh, D-IN, announced that he will not run for re-election this November. There's more than one way to react to this news. Since Bayh is a Democrat, the gut reaction might be...
Any sense of how the strike is going?
It really shouldn't be surprising that the Republican Party is focused right now on winning nothing, the biggest nothing in recent times.
The GOP's goal, what they are campaigning full bore to provide to Americans, is absolutely nothing...in terms of...
As a veteran of one war, I can see similarities in how we are conducting this war. We're really doing nothing different that what we did in Vietnam. We have developed and use the same formula in every major...
I've discussed this issue of Dems Against Obama with some who are very sharp and informed Progressives and subscribe to being very vocal critics of his.
I thought it would be constructive to discuss and examine some of the points...
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