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McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way? Amidst all the attacks on Obama's public funding "flip-flop," how much have you read in the old media about the fact that McCain has completely reversed himself on public financing -- and is currently breaking campaign finance law on a daily basis? Read More
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done his part to make sure that, at least in the U.S., the future for his gun industry friends and their lobbying pals is a little bit brighter.
According to a new poll, American public opinion about the Olympic Games, China, and the perceived actions of the host country has changed very little since the Sichuan earthquake.
Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.
If filmmakers gratuitously and continuously bash contemporary Republican politicians or policy in their movies, don't they run the risk of alienating a large segment of the movie-going audience?
McCain is a weak and bumbling candidate, ill-suited for a presidential race, and is still struggling to bring his party together. His polling numbers have slipped from the low 40s to 38, 36 -- and now 33.
Rove's latest twist on reality is his attempt to paint Obama as one of the sneering country club Republicans that Rove worked so hard to empower.
The campaign is long over, and yet Hillary is forced to keep asking for cash. The word "help" is plastered all over the letter, the smell of bad management rising from the text.
Transgendered people, too long marginalized in society and even within the GLBT community, has made enormous strides in recent years -- we want to continue that progress and translate it into federal law.
In national security terms, McCain is largely untested and untried. He's never been responsible for policy formulation. If he thinks he can use the national security debate to his advantage, he's wrong.
Closing the broadband digital divide should have been a national priority. While our status as world technology leader went into free fall, Congress sat on the sidelines and the White House ducked and dodged.
For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.
We should honor Nader's many career achievements, thank him for his service, then stop paying any attention to him.
