This is great news for Ohio: Republican Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), dogged by a corruption scandal involving disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will not seek re-election in the November mid-term election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said on Monday. “Bob Ney was forced out of this race by the reality of an […]
The spotlight on Ohio’s new voter registration laws is getting stronger and today made it’s way to the New York Times: For Tony Minor, the pastor of the Community of Faith Assembly in a run-down section of East Cleveland, Ohio’s new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as […]
Hi folks. This is my first post here. I’m from the UK so maybe some of this won’t relate to you. This is something I posted on another blog site a couple of weeks ago. “IN THE NEWS” Former cabinet colleague and foreign secretary attacks Tony Blair’s stance in Israel and the Middle East. Considering […]
No I am not talking about a sweet treat of a doughnut hole. This doughnut hole is part of the Medicare changes and is actually one that is really hitting seniors hard. It is a loophole in the new Medicare coverage that many seniors were not aware of, but are quickly finding out about. Here […]
This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice on the latest developments in the Middle East Lieberman vs. Lamont — George goes on the road for interviews with both candidates in the white hot Democratic primary SUNDAY’S ROUNDTABLE: Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, and George Will Meet the Press Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice […]
Yesterday I posted about E.J. Dionne’s piece called “the End of Conservatism?” Steve posted at Crooks and Liars an entry that falls along the same lines. Now we learn of even more Republicans leaving their party because they feel their is no room for moderates. OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican state Sen. Nancy Riley, complaining there […]
To me there could have been no better way to remember those that died in the 9/11 attacks than to take the day seriously and figure out what went wrong in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Some what how we hear military leaders say that we need to finish the […]
Something that appears to have fallen under the blogosphere radar today is a treaty that was ratified by Senate to fight cybercrime: The Senate has ratified a treaty under which the United States will join more than 40 other countries, mainly from Europe, in fighting crimes committed via the Internet. The Council of Europe’s Convention […]
When a post was made on Huffington Post the other day with a picture of Bill Clinton standing with Joe Lieberman, who was in black face, the wingnuts came out looking for blood. They started talking about the racist left and how hypocritical we are. Of course Matt Drudge was one of the wingnuts jumping […]
So now we are turning up the heat on Iran: The United States has imposed sanctions against seven companies from Russia, North Korea, India and Cuba for arms deals with Iran, State Department officials said Friday. The sanctions, which took effect on July 28 and were listed Friday in the Federal Register, fall under the […]