History is Made: New GI Bill Signed into Law
It is a promise we made to the veterans of World War II: that those who defend our country should be able to take advantage of America's opportunity. This legislation again fulfills that promise.
It is a promise we made to the veterans of World War II: that those who defend our country should be able to take advantage of America's opportunity. This legislation again fulfills that promise.
Sen. Harry Reid | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
As a boy, I learned to swim at a whorehouse. Every Thursday, the whoremonger in town would ask the girls who worked the El Rey to clear out, and he'd invite the children in town to swim in his pool.
Bloomberg | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
"The protracted battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination is doing 'zero damage' to the party and ins...
Will Bower | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home
Is there a chance for a happy ending to the Democratic nominating drama?
Donnie Fowler | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
If the Democratic race is still very close when summer rolls around, then how else is one of them going to get the nomination if they don't start recruiting delegates of all kinds to switch sides?
Ari Melber | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics
We need leaders who will not only vote against unchecked spying, but go to the mat with the full power of their office and their bully pulpit to defend the Constitution.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
Granite-staters are fed up with anything that constitutes politics-as-normal inside the Beltway and that includes anyone who is perceived -- rightly or wrongly -- associated with it.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
The whole Obama flap over cocaine (fueled by the Clinton camp) needs to get shot down right away, before any Republicans consider using it to attack Obama. And it's so pathetically easy to shoot this one down.
Washington Post | Al Kamen | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
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Toby Barlow | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
Pelosi and Reid are just about to do the stupidest thing imaginable: pull the rug out from underneath the blossoming renewable energy economy at the time when we need it most.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
The anti-war movement had a small but important victory today, not in the form of legislation on Iraq, but rather in the reemergence of a prominent ai...
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
Reid's tenure as majority leader has been nothing but an exercise in timidity, which is about a lot more than not having the votes to pass legislation.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
A little good old political theater is what was in order today.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
When you parse it all out, it comes down to 50-50 on the subject of Iraq, but there are four names being floated as candidates for GOP aisle-crossing.
David Sirota | Posted 09.18.2007 | Politics
A few months ago, in the face of polls showing the public wanted an end to the war, Democrats were refusing to use their power to, well, end the war.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics
Either the polls are lying to me, or you guys are just ignoring the public and conspiring to prove that Democrats have no backbone whatsoever.
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