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What If Bush's Supreme Court Blocks Congressional Oversight by Hearing and...

It's very likely that Bush or his surrogate has already discussed strategy with the Supreme Court Whores who put him in office and who are now tearing apart the constitution, precedent after...

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Mode of Rove News Release Sign Of Murdoch's Influence on WSJ

This morning, we see a few ways that the Murdoch buy of the Wall Street Journal will affect the vernerable newspaper.

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Drive, Don't Vote the "Ripe" Right Wing Incumbents Out of Congress

Crossposted from original article at www.opednews.comIt's time to target the right wing incumbents who are ready to "fall off the vine" and retire-- to make them so miserable in their job,  that they...

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Assassinated Sheikh A Con Man For Petraeus

crossposted from OpEdNews.comThe local Sunni Iraqi leader, sheikh Sattar Abu Reesha, who has been credited as leading the fight gainst Al Qaeda and leading the recruitment of other tribal chieftans and...

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Can Rep. Patrick Murphy End the War. Will he?

Crossposted from www.opednews.comIs He Dem Leader,Future President or Get Along Guy?As the only Iraq vet in congress, Murphy could, with more credibility than any other member of congress, call for...

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H.S. Students Face Expulsion For Holding Peace Sit-in

cross posted from www.opednews.comLast Thursday, Oct. 1, students at the Morton West High School in Berwyn Illinois held an anti-war peace rally at ten AM. They'd planned it for a few days. About 70...

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Sardonic Thanks-- 16 or so things to be somewhat thankful for

crossposted from OpEdNEws.comHere are some things to be thankful for:-The losses in the Iraq occupation have not been in excess of 50,000 as they were in Vietnam, or over 500,000 as they were in WWII.

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How About an Impeachment Truth Movement?

Cross-posted from OpEdNews.comToo many people are thinking about impeachment as an act aimed at removing the president. And it's true, that is one aspect of the impeachment process. But that's putting...

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I Endorse Ron Paul & Why Progressives Should Support Him

Ron Paul is my first choice for a Republican candidate. There. I've said it. Of all the Republicans, he's the one I think is the best. His positions on the constitution, on the war, on globalism on...

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Hillary Calls for Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin to Fix Economy

It's true, she's asking the guy who set up the current mortgage disaster and handed it to Bernanke, and Rubin free trade and NAFTA lover, supporter.

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Do NOT Trust Paulson's Plan to "Protect" and "Regulate"

Trust former Goldman Sachs CEO Paulson as much as you trust Bush to do the right thing and tell the truth. Expect the plans to hurt consumers, take away protections, de-regulate industries, take away...

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Casey's Endorsement Foretells DEM Party Future

Bob Casey's Obama endorsement says a lot about the future of the Democratic party and what progressives need to be doing.crossposted from www.opednews.com

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Time to Attack Right Wing Core Values; Less Taxes, Less Govt

You Want to talk about less Government and less Taxes? Make My Day.crossposted from OpEdNews.comHere's a deal for you. I'll give you $1000, even $20,000, and I'll make sure that there's less government...

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Hillary's Pattern: Failure to Vet Facts & Use Good Judgment

Hillary's repeated gaffes over claims about her past-- about the patient who died without health insurance-- they tell us she does NOT have what it takes to acquire information, process it, and make...

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Obama Reinstates CA Progressive Delegates

Yesterday, OpEdNews.com posted Marcy Winograd's report, Obama Delegate Purge -- Slash and Burn in California, reporting how 900+ delegates had been removed from the contending in the impending...

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Take Back Control of Debates From the Networks

crossposted from www.OpEdNews.comHow About Debate Integrity... and taking control back from the networks? It's time for the major parties to refuse to allow the networks to plan, script and program...

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No End In Sight... Forget About June!

crossposted from opednews.comIt's becoming clear. This will not end in June. It will not end when the superdelegates commit to Obama. It will go all the way to the convention and there, the Clintons...

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Will SuperDuper Delegates Change The Race?

Crossposted from OpEdNEws.comThere have beena few superduper delegates so far. Will more of them announce themselves and when they do, will they totally change the primary race?

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How Obama's Win Will Change the Leadership of the Dem Party; with Poll

Article originally published here on OpEdNEws.comThis 2008 presidential race has not just been about who would become the Democratic presidential candidate. It has also been all about the future...

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Poll: Will Impeachment Hearings Help or Hurt Obama & Dems?

John Conyers and the Dem congress say that impeachment hearings will hurt Dem chances of winning in November.I don't buy it. I did a poll on my site, OpEdNews.com and the percentage of respondents who...

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Pentagon: Over 1000 Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing?

Many people have raised the specter of nuclear WMDs being sourced from nefarious sources-- from errant former Soviet states, from N. Korea, Iran or Pakistan> It may be that to those fears must be...

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Bottom Up Democracy at PDA, Top-Down at DNC

I'm still at the PDA (progressive Democrats of America) conference. It's been very refreshing to see how bottom-up the meeting has been with extraordinary efforts to include ALL the participants in...

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Poll: Do You Support Equal Rights for Third Party Candidates?

Do you support a federal law requiring equal treatment for all political parties, in terms of rules for registering candidates and getting them on the ballot, including petition requirements and...

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Local Alaskans See Sarah As Potent Asset But Vulnerable

What do local Alaskans think about Sarah Palin? That was my approach, wanting to get past the pundits and Washington insider takes on McCain's new partner. So I started calling people I thought would...

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Obama Should Attack McCain's "Country First" Narrative Head On

Time to unleash Obama the MAN, the guy who can be tough-- and time to systematically attack McCain's America/Country/Nation First branding and narrative. It's the biggest McCain lie and where the GOP...

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Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed

It looks like the Republicans thought they'd use the bailout bill to sink the Dems, but the GOP leadership couldn't lead their own troops.Crossposted from OpEdNews.com

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Meet Neel Kashkari, The $700 Billion Bailout Czar

There is a new Czar in America-- the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program-- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Neel Kashkari.

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The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin

Close to 100 million Americans received mailers last week, or will receive them next week that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign.They weren't sent by Obama, nor by 527...

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The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for CHANGE, Not Recycling

Please, president-elect Obama, keep your promise, starting with your cabinet and bring change to this nation, not re-cycling.It's been a long time since Democrats have worked in the Whitehouse or have...

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Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless

The Secret Service has ruled that bloggers must go shoeless when attending political events.After the flack raised by Secret Service critics who questioned why President Bush found himself at the mercy...

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Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care

A family member's brutal beating by a gang has me extra pissed. Time to get out in the streets to demand universal health insurance like every other first world nation has. There are too many horror...

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Why Holder and Obama have not fired the Rove-Vetted DOJ Attorneys

crossposted from www.OpEdNews.comIt's an unprecedented outrage. There are scores of attorneys-- partisan, engaging in serial prosecutorial misconduct, like the cases of Gov. Don Siegelman and Cyril...

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Obama's Newest Strategy Will Fail; Here's How to Turn The Tide Against the GOP

Crossposted from OpEdNEws.com and Huffingtonpost.comThe new White House strategy is to show how Republicans are the party of no, by showcasing their answers and comments on poll-friendly issues.This is...

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Senator Evan Bayh Screwed Indiana Democrats, Sidestepped Democracy

crossposted from OpEdNEws.com, a technorati top 100 overall blog.Evan Bayh's last minute decision not to run for the senate again was intentional and aimed at side-stepping democracy.Indiana's citizens...

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Is It Time to Primary Obama? Poll

A simple though controversial question. Should Obama face primary challengers. Some blame Obama for Tuesday's bloodbath. Some blame progressives. It's getting nasty. Just wondering how the community...

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Poll; What's your Take on Wikileaks Assange-- Hero, Villain or other?

The mainstream media seems to be mostly villifying Julian Assange of wikileaks. S for his execution.

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Time to Primary Obama #2, w/Poll

Last month, I ran a poll, which over 500 people responded to, asking whether Obama should be primaried. Many commenters got nasty, but 27% said they wanted to primary Obama. 70% opposed primarying...

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If Conditions Were Right, Would You Vote Third Party?

I know this is a site for Democrats, but changing election rules to allow instant runoff voting could pressure democrats to act like Democrats, for starters.

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Will Obama Move Left or Right if He Wins 2nd Term; Poll

  Let's assume that the Republicans implode, the independents come out en masse, the Tea party promotes more loser candidates that keep right wingers home, the voter ID laws fail to keep the poor and...

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Poll: Is the Libyan Rebellion Seeking to Remove Gadaffi a Good Thing or Bad...

    There are widely varying perspectives on what is happening in Libya. So far, my exploration of people on the left reveals a wide spread of opinion in response to the question in the title of this...

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Pollsters Siding with Obama-- Should Poll Generic Dem Against GOP Candidates

There. I've said it. The pollsters are all siding with President Obama. By failing to ask how voters would vote if given an option other than Obama, they make his election seem inevitable. The truth is...

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Susan Rice for Secretary of State? VERY Bad For Liberals and Progressives

It looks like momentum is building towards Susan Rice being the next Secretary of State-- and a lot of liberal people, particularly in the media, are reacting to opposition by John McCain and LIndsay...

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Could Bernie's Coat-Tails Take Back the House and Senate Majorities?

Could it be that when Bernie wins the Democratic primary his coat-tails will help take back the senate and maybe even the house, in spite of the massive gerrymandering in Republican controlled...

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Google Trends: Bernie Did Better in 2015 Against Hillary than Obama did in 2007

I used Google Trends to see how Obama fared compared to Hillary in 2007 from April through December  and then how Bernie Sanders did in the same time frame, in 2015 from April through December, in...

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Bernie, Start Your Revolution Now-- With An Organization

reprinted from OpEdNews.comBernie is building a revolution. He's had over three million donations and over a million donors. These are people who are passionate about wanting change. Why wait for...

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Comparing the March 4-5 and Jan 22 DKOS Straw Polls

I played with the numbers of the January 22 and March 4-5 DKOS straw polls. Here’s what I came up with. The January 22 Straw poll saw about 35,000 respondents. The March 4-5 poll, as I write this...

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Trump Annual Fundraising Bombs Compared to Democrats

This article is reprinted from OpEdNews.comDonald Trump raised 143.8 million. That's more than any Democratic candidate raised. Maybe that makes Donny feel smug, even comfy. Here's the graphic MSNBC's...

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Bensalem PA Special Election Shows Sadly Wrongheaded Top-down Democratic...

Reprinted from OpEdNews.comThere's a special election taking place soon in Bensalem PA that reflects, in my opinion, in a microcosm, how the the Democratic Leadership acts at many levels within the...

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Trump and Republicans Are Staging a Hayes/Tilden Coup; They Don't Need to Win...

reprinted from OpEdNews.com Donald Trump and the leadership of the Republican party are aggressively staging a coup, inspired by the 1876 Tilden Hayes election, and the Democratic Party and their...

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10 Reasons to Impeach Trump Post-presidency

Even though Trump will already be out of office, he should be impeached. There are a lot of reasons. Here are eight of them. Please help me build the list.Cut Him Off From Intelligence Briefings:...

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