Congress Bows To Big Oil In Burma
Caving to big oil demands, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan that intensifies trade sanctions against Burma's military regime but abandons an earl...
Caving to big oil demands, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan that intensifies trade sanctions against Burma's military regime but abandons an earl...
Tom Gregory | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Congressman Jackie Speier's the Barack Obama of moms with a lot of Bette Davis school-of-hard-knocks thrown in. She is expected to be a leader for change in America starting today.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
"During what was supposed to be a somber memorial service in Statuary Hall for Rep. Tom Lantos, who died Monday, the House chamber became mired in cha...
Think Progress | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
Discussing the death of Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) on his radio show yesterday, conservative talker Michael Savage said he "detested" Lantos. Savage calle...
Harold Pollack | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
Given John Edwards' slashing attacks on Sen. Clinton, one would expect him to endorse Obama or no one. Politics being what it is, one would be foolish to predict.
Steve Clemons | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
I had recently met with him a few times and saw him moving increasingly in support of a serious US role in Israel-Palestine negotiations.
Associated Press | MATTHEW LEE and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics
The Democratic-led Congress is unlikely to block U.S. plans to sell $123 million worth of sophisticated precision-guided bomb technology to Saudi Arab...
Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The domestic lobbies' influence on policy process is rarely investigated by the media because of the media's own lack of impartiality. So it takes us citizens to do the job of looking at raw data and following the money.
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business
Two top Yahoo Inc. officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from law...
Forbes | Brian Wingfield | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business
Somebody at Yahoo! has got some explaining to do. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., wants to know why...
AP | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
A House committee chairman Monday angrily rejected Yahoo Inc.'s explanation for why it provided incomplete information to Congress about its role in t...
John Brady Kiesling | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
Most of us applaud the efforts of the UN to impose a universal code of behavior. But international law is not always compatible with our more Homeric instincts.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
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In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
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I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
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The Washington Independent | Mike Lillies | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business