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George Bush was in Jerusalem today doing what he and his fellow Republican operatives do best -- fear-mongering for crass political gain at a time when the Mid East fires are skipping their fire lines from all that hot air Bush is blowing across its parched landscape.

Instead of...

This afternoon, the House of Representatives made history. By an overwhelming margin, lawmakers passed the landmark new GI Bill which will make college affordable to the more than 1.6 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

As President Roosevelt said when he signed the original GI Bill for...

Americans will soon vote in one of the most important elections in the nation's history. And it will not involve Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or John McCain.

This is the reality of American "exceptionalism," a unique form of divided powers in which a president is the nation's "head of...

While pundits argue whether issues in the presidential race will travel down ballot to Congressional races, new data from the Campaign Finance Institute shows that the so-called "small donor revolution" definitely has not.

While some presidential candidates have been able to harness small donors at greater levels this cycle than...

"We're going to give you the change you deserve" --

That's not a threat; it's a promise -- from the Republican congressional leaders. Really. Led by perpetually tanned House leader John Boehner, Republicans have suddenly discovered that the country wants change -- and they have...

My position as CEO of To The Fallen Records requires me to be nonpartisan because our primary purpose is to support music artists within the military, but this is an issue that transcends politics and I feel compelled to speak out on behalf of my fellow service members.

The new...

The winds of change have brought Democrats a big advantage in the races for the White House, U.S. House and Senate in 2008. The opportunity for the emergence of a governing Democratic majority is unprecedented.

Democrats have the Republicans to thank for this historic opening in 2008. The...

Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain?

Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I guess nobody told her) now knows that the Democratic candidate for president is going to be Barack Obama. But while the end of this...

Two thousand and eight is likely to be remembered as the year when the Democrats finally abandoned their base and cynically bent their knees to the will of Senate Republicans obsessed with slamming the door to homeownership closed to the minority, the female, the immigrant, and the working class...

Who should we blame for retired military men getting themselves hired by TV networks to be talking head cheerleaders for "progress" in Iraq? The Pentagon? The media? Our elected officials and presidential wanabees? The public?

I think my friend Steven Aftergood has it just about right. Here's what he told...

Both a test and a Harbinger of the way things will go in November, Don Cazayoux, a state legislator, defeated Republican Woody Jenkins, a small-newspaper publisher, in the race for a house seat in a Baton Rouge district that was historically a safe red, conservative slot.

This is bad news...

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news?

So do I. Any event of this magnitude would be the lead story on every evening news broadcast in the nation....

Five years ago, President Bush dressed up in a flight suit for a self-congratulatory photo op on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln under a banner that proclaimed "Mission Accomplished". Certainly, the war was not over then and victory was not achieved. The mission has been redefined several times...

New Mexico congressional candidate Bill McCamley (who's running for right wing Republican Senate candidate Steve Pearce's seat), just came up with a very creative idea for taking the rug out from under self-financing candidates. In this case, the self-funded candidate in question is his...

Thank you, Larry King. When you bring it, YOU BRING IT! And this past Friday, YOU BROUGHT IT!! Thanks to the few simple questions you asked Speaker Pelosi, viewers got a clearer insight into who Speaker Pelosi is, and how Speaker Pelosi feels - about President Bush, her self-described "day...

Tom Andrews, former Member of Congress and National Director of Win Without War, discusses the coming Congressional vote on funding for the war in Iraq - possibly even more than President Bush has requested.

In a stunning - if predictable - story, the Hill newspaper reports that congressional Democrats are now saying that they will effectively thwart any effort to create a national health care program. Here is the key excerpt:

"Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their...