Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the le...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
"There are people who say that money doesn't really matter in public eduction. If it really doesn't matter, then we should equalize the expenditures. If it does matter, we should equalize the expenditures."
Washington City Paper | Dave McKenna | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Allison Vivas once thought she'd be spending Wednesday night in DC with Newt Gingrich. Then he stood her up. Instead of getting mad, Vivas got even. ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The cover of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book Going Rogue was made public today. In honor of the inspirational photograph of the ex-governor, here are ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Newt Gingrich! Does anyone currently walking the face of the earth know more about entrepreneurship? Or about American Solutions For Winning the Fut...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Keith Olbermann named Newt Gingrich "World's Best Person" for revoking two of his Business Defense and Advisory Council Entrepreneur Awards after he d...
The Dallas Morning News | Gromer Jeffers Jr. | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Dawn Rizos didn't need any formal recognition that The Lodge, one of the best-known gentlemen's clubs in Dallas, was a successful small business. But...
David Kralik | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
So what it is about the culture, companies and innovations that routinely give credence to why Silicon Valley remains the World Capital of Innovation?
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.
POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
"I would point out that the greatest anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said. Long before the tea parties or...
Beth Armogida | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy
Homosexuality will be classified as a mental illness, unless of course you're a male, Christian politician. OxyContin will be free, untraceable and in donut form. All illegal aliens will be covered... with dirt.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
If congressional politics are inside baseball, Newt Gingrich completely upended the playing field. Joe Wilson isn't an accident, he's an outcome.
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."
Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Conservatives bathed in daily lies -- from WMDs to "death panels" -- have become so comfortable spreading them that they treat it like good, clean fun for the whole family.
Washington City Paper | David McKenna | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
I just got a note from Dan Kotman, spokesman for Newt Gingrich's DC PAC, American Solutions for Winning the Future, in response to my blog post about ...
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
A fax sent by Newt Gingrich is unsolicited -- and possibly unlawful.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
We need rope, lots of it, to let the right wing shark-osphere hang themselves in their xenophobic obsessions. Because what won't deter them is shame. There is no shame to these hacks.
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke out Tuesday in support of President Obama's "back-to-school speech" delivered to school children ...
Jamie Kilstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
My early money for the Republican Party's next presidential nominee is MSNBC pundit and former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Matt Corley over at ThinkProgress noted yesterday that former Arkansas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has got a brand ne...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World