Some progressive friends of mine don't seem to understand that we've already been sold out on the Public Option. That's the truth but it's not the las...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
President Obama will address the nation's school children Tuesday in a speech promoting education, ambition, and perseverance. But the issue has been hijacked by the right-wing lunatic fringe.
Don Parker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Amid the uproar over President Obama's grand scheme to use subliminal brainwashing to indoctrinate America's schoolchildren into his cult of personality, Republicans today demanded equal access to young minds so they could counterbalance the president's dangerous message.
Pablo Manriquez | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In second grade, I wrote a letter to my President grilling him on homeless issues and drug policy. I also asked for his autograph. As expected, he got back to me right away.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
These Obama-hating conservatives and their dumbed-down, myopic philosophies appeal to the lowest common-denominator of the Republican Party, which is why it got trounced in the last election.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Now that a black man holds the office, tinfoil-hat lunatics say children should not learn to respect presidents, nor should presidents encourage them to succeed. It's an incredible hypocrisy.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
The important question is who started this viral campaign today for health care reform on Facebook? Was it those other pesky liberals at Facebook that engineered this campaign? Was it Facebook flexing its muscle?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Let's hope that when Obama speaks Congress he outlines not only a bold program to provide health care for all Americans, but also a set of proposals to lift the middle class out of its currently dismal economic condition.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Glenn Beck's controversial track record pales in comparison to Massey Energy's mining operations in Appalachia, which have literally displaced American citizens from their native homes.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy
For his Chris Wallace interview, Cheney looks frustrated, irritated and impatient, yet still possesses the aura of the uber-confident terror-fighting SuperHero so few people truly understand and appreciate..
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Verizon and a British Lord are joining forces to deny climate change and fight unions.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Now is the time for all good greens, rednecks, social entrepreneurs, hellraisers, Repower America and Al Gore to come to the aid of their fellow citizens in the Appalachian coalfields.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
If jet fuel becomes so expensive that tourists stop visiting Hawaii, it will become the first state to enter into a prolonged depression.
Dawn Teo | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
A coalition of 521 organizations have signed an open letter to Obama and are planning vigils, marches, and other events across the country to protest the administration's policy on the Department of Homeland Security 287(g) local immigration enforcement program
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
In addition to golf, tennis, and catching up with his family, Obama will be setting aside a substantial amount of reading time, according to Deputy Pr...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
From forged letters to fake rallies, the revelations over Big Coal's public relations machinations continue. Today's candidate for the "bogus coal front of the week" is FACES, the Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security.
Dawn Teo | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
It was 2008 all over again Wednesday night as Organizing for America (OFA), formerly Obama for America, launched their cross-country "Reform Health Care Now: Let's Get It Done Tour" from Arizona...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.
Michael T. Klare | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
A U.S. oil embargo on Iran appears risky, both because it would strengthen the hand of conservative clerics in Tehran and could entail a naval blockade, setting off a chain reaction.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
We know more about abuses by the CIA in interrogating terror suspects. Republicans are claiming witch hunt -- this from a party that impeached a U.S president on charges over an adulterous affair.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners.
Peter Dreier | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
This is philosophical warfare, and for the Republicans, Medicare is an appropriate casualty.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
On Thursday, Greenpeace volunteers installed solar panels atop of the roof of President Obama's Step-Grandmother, Mama Sarah's home and on the roof of...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics