Easy. They want money! With the House Democrats’ refusal to grant retroactive immunity to phone companies – stalling the rewrite of the warrantless wiretapping program – GOP leadership aides are grumbling that their party isn’t getting more political money from the telecommunications industry. Yes we will change the laws to give you protection from the […]
The people in Pakistan elected a new leader, but Bush is trying to pressure the country into keeping Musharraf in power: The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western diplomats and U.S. officials say could trigger […]
This is going to be interesting: Ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro permanently gave up the Cuban presidency on Tuesday, ending five decades of ironclad rule of the island marked by his brash defiance of the United States. In a message published by the online version of the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, the 81-year-old Castro […]
Ickes is a member of the DNC and a senior adviser to the Clinton Campaign. Last year he voted to strip FL and MI of their delegates. Now he wants them back in. Why? Here’s the reason: Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a […]
There is a major fight brewing in Washington state over the called race for McCain. I can’t remember a time when they stopped counting votes because a party chair figured out the winner, but that appears to be what’s happening: Esser said he declared McCain the winner after calculating what Huckabee would have to win […]
Clinton has lead with party insiders Should the voters decide who becomes the nominee or “party insiders”? This is the exact reason the super delegates have been under fire since the beginning. The DNC needs to look at getting rid of them and letting the people decide. This is a democracy – isn’t it?
Good for him: Mike Huckabee is challenging the results of the Washington state Republican caucuses, his campaign announced Sunday, after accusing the state party chairman of calling the election for John McCain before all the votes were counted. The campaign will be pursuing a full investigation, including sending in lawyers to join those already on […]
He talks about how great democracy is in the Middle East. I don’t find news like this very great: A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not […]
Just the latest of the rash of states trying to save our democracy. Add Diebold stock to the death-watch list.
Looks like someone in our judicial branch is tired of the media trying to pick our leaders. I’m not a big Kucinich fan, but this is a really good thing. The media shouldn’t be allowed to pick who can debate and who can’t. It’s an insult to our democracy.