WASHINGTON — Senators trying to craft bipartisan climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that would add incentives for building ...
Margie Alt | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green
The scramble for sixty Senate votes on a tight timeline in a steadily-warming world will require concessions to the politically powerful interests that have undue influence in the U.S. Senate.
Bill Scher | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Sen. Graham may be a conservative, but he is not a moron. He knew full well the right-wing lunacy that would be unleashed by his willingness to compromise to pass carbon cap legislation.
Bill Scher | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
The possibility of Republican support for "cap and trade" legislation is getting renewed attention. A deal might involve Democratic support for more nuclear power and offshore drilling.
Dave Hackel | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
I know for sure that Obama's speech on health care was good because Rush Limbaugh thought it was "disgusting, reprehensible, embarrassing, petulant, divisive and crude."
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
"I decided to sue when My communications to humans were ignored by the few whose personal agendas were believed by the many," God said.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?
Elon James White | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy
I am an Average Black Person. I would much rather play my Xbox 360 and watch reruns of Scrubs. I don't want to rant and rail against the system and the perceptions of Blacks: I'm FORCED to.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy
In one of his funniest segments of the year, Jon Stewart took the Senate Judiciary Committee to task last night for their odd behaviors and hypocritic...
The Progress Report | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
As Sotomayor's elevation to the Court grows increasingly inevitable, conservatives are the ones melting down.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
We all need to look in the mirror and remind ourselves: This isn't about you.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
If the government-run plan is so good it would be an improvement over the private insurers, why are the Republicans against it? Isn't the goal better care at lower costs?
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Pure like ice. Pure like fire. That's the way they wanted it. That's the way they'd have it, and they'd leave no tone unspurned. Only true believer...
New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- A fundamental debate broke out among Republicans on Wednesday over how to rebuild the party in the wake of Senator Arlen Specter's depar...
Politico | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday that rather than showing leadership in steering the stimulus package through Congress, President Barack Oba...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama will meet Monday with John McCain in talks that Obama's transition office said would focus on ways they c...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media
The possibility that Sarah Palin may well find herself one proverbial heartbeat away from the presidency has flushed out a hitherto buried issue, that of John McCain's age and health.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
Despite the revelation, first reported on Monday, that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin once directed a pro-Ted Stevens political committee, the notion still p...
Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media
In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
This morning on ABC, Sen. Lindsay Graham gave what might be considered a too-truthful explanation for why John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Tasked with defending Sarah Palin's foreign policy credentials as a vice presidential nominee, Sen. Lindsey Graham instead launched a vicious attack a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics
Surrogacy on behalf of a presidential candidate can, on occasion, force a politician to deride his own past positions. Such was the case Sunday mornin...
Justin Frank | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Voters need to overcome their fear in order not simply to hate the haters -- they need to recognize who in fact the haters are.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain has aggressively tried to distance himself from Bush in an effort to avoid being tagged by Democrats as running for Bush's third t...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 12.11.2009 | Green