Earlier this week, when the SCOTUS handed down their decision reducing the restraints on corporate money in politics, it seemed to me to be absolutely the worst thing to happen to our country in a very, very long time. But...
We need to move carefully in establishing a national electronic medical records database, since there really are serious problems as it stands now with healthcare records privacy. The fairly recent Privacy Rule (2006) established under The Health Insurance Portability and...
Say the word that's always missing from White House pronouncements about the situation in Palestine. Say the word that we never hear when the administration talks about how Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to destroy Israel. You know...
Why is it that the U.S. press has not reported on the recent statements by Hamas' leader Ismail Haniya? GAZA CITY, Gaza -- Following intensive negotiations with Hamas, the de facto leadership of Gaza, a group of European parliamentarians has...
Yep, you read that right. From Andrew Halcro's excellent blog on Alaska politics, comes this:Vetting the Veep...post announcementThe campaign of John McCain has sent a staff of eight people into Alaska to conduct background checks and vetting on Governor Sarah...
There's video of the program, part of the Road to the White House series, available on the C-Span website too:http://www.cspan.org/Series/Road-to-the-White-House.aspxObama is wonderfully inspiring, but you aren't gonna believe how much McCain praises Bush and the Iraq War! Enjoy and tell...
(Saturday, Aug. 16, at 8 p.m. EDT, to be aired on CNN, MSNBC and Fox)The forum will consist of an hour of questions to each candidate posed by the host, evangelical Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California,...
Yes, celebrity endorsements are usually a yawn, but this is Springsteen. According to an article recently published at the ABC News online site, in the announcement, Springsteen said the following:Obama "speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for...
Completely overlooked in all the hoopla over the Clinton-Obama spat in the South Carolina debate, was this letter to Sen. Edwards from the slain civil rights leader's son, written on the day set aside to honor his father's memory:Dear Senator...
This morning, I downloaded the pdf of the January 12 CNN poll results that's available at TPM Election Central (you can download the pdf yourself here) and I was astounded - CNN has excluded John Edwards from their polling! Edwards...
I had not really understood the appeal of Ron Paul, who has been generating huge amounts in donations over the last months, until I watched the Meet the Press interview this morning, and heard him speak about the "soft fascism"...
I happened to check C-Span to see if there were any political things on TV this afternoon, and discovered they were running a couple of segments about religion in politics. The first was some video of a focus group session...
Authors Stephen Walt and John Mearshimer speak about their book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, on C-Span2 BookTV. It was an excellent presentation; the authors anticipated and thoroughly addressed many of the questions that have been raised by...
The Presidential candidates recently released statements to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) regarding their positions on Israel. Ron Kampeas (TPM Cafe poster Kampeas) of the JTA confirmed this, and very kindly posted both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's statemtents in...
I watched the Charlie Rose interviews with Senator Chris Dodd last week, and I was quite impressed with his knowledge and demeanor; he's dignified and has gravitas, but still seems down-to-earth, sensible and accessible. (I'm hoping Charlie Rose will do...
The danger of not impeaching now, in view of the dangerous precedent being set for extra-Constitutional behavior by future presidents - was made repeatedly on Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS last night. It's a compelling argument. Moyers' entire program was...
I'm posting this in the hope that we will be able to avoid a foolish war with Iran, justifications for which are in no small part seemingly based on the misquoting of Ahmadinejad. Note that Cole hardly thinks highly of...
The cover story of the new edition of Newsweek (June 11, 2007) features an article by Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, frequent contributor to The Washington Post and numerous other prominent publications, author of several books including The New...
