Is Colin Powell's endorsement, revealed today and making the rounds of all the news shows with a sussurus of excitement, the last nail in McCain's coffin, or merely just another one in the long, pounding march of his sorry wake-turning-into-being-interred-alive nightmare ( Read more... )

Hopefully many folks nationwide tuned in to Larry King's interview of Michelle Obama tonight (Wed. 10/8) on CNN. What a cool, intellectually capable, gracious future First Lady. What a break from the bland Republican Prez wives from too many years past ( Read more... )

From the Americans for the Arts Action Fund this very revealing chart showing McCain's and Obama's positions on the Arts, as subject unfortunately rarely touched upon by the media.
As you can see, we have now even more reasons to elect Obama... as if we needed more.


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The big news today was brought on the News channels by the top guns of the Democrats (Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd): there is finally an agreement by both parties for a bill that would break the deadlock on the "Wall Street Rescue" requested by Sec. Paulsen on behalf of the discredited Bush ( Read more... )

Today's Pat Oliphant cartoon is truly hilarious (and sadly very true).


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This quote just jumped at me as I was thinking about how much the lavish disbursements to the greedy executives ("oh, but they're market-based", "oh, but they're worth it, or they'll take their talents elsewhere") have been a substantial part of the economic disaster we're experiencing ( Read more... )

Monday, and the Dow erases in one fell swoop all the progress it had made last Friday ( Read more... )

For months McCain and bush and the Republicans have been trumpeting "the surge has worked". http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc_2 Here is some evidence that, at best, the "Surge" was no more than one in a number of factors, with the ( Read more... )

Bill Clinton won his initial run on that mantra, and he was right ( Read more... )

Democracy in action. Before Sarah Palin was nominated as VP, there was a shadow hanging over her governorship, named "Troopergate". Did she or did she not fire the high commissioner for Public Safety for not taking action on requests to get rid of her former brother-in-law? At the time, before Palin's nomination, the Alaska congressional panel (10 ( Read more... )