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Sam Stein

Shoeless Chuck Schumer Gives Obama And Dems Some Stern Advice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


Chuck Schumer was not expecting an in-person interview. Towards the end of a quintessentially boiling Washington D.C. day, the affable and intense New...

Oil Prices Top Issue In Public Mind, Congress Feeling Pressure

New York Times | Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green


WASHINGTON -- Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said anxiety over fuel oil costs is at crisis proportions in her state. Senator Amy Klobucha...

Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.

Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.

HRC Has Some Bad Political Advice For Gay People

Howie Klein | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics


Howie Klein

I was very proud in 1997 when Human Rights Campaign gave me a leadership equality award. After I learned more about them, I smashed my award and removed them from my will.

Will So-Called "Free Trade" Cost Republicans A Maine Senate Seat?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Tasini

Senator Olympia Snowe put out a statement condemning the so-called "free trade" deal with Colombia. Maine is not a state that is going to be very friendly to so-called "free trade".

Sam Stein

Fundraising Trends Democratic In Key Senate Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics


With third quarter fundraising totals trickling in, the Senate electoral landscape continues to look optimistic for Democrats. Political insiders cit...


 

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