Before the great mortgage collapse that plunged the U.S. and most of the rest of the world into the Great Recession the banksters, according to the L.A. Times, knew they were playing with fire. Jim Puzzanghera and Scott Reckard reported exactly two yea... »
Because gerrymandering has given the vast majority of House Republicans deeply red districts where they're more worried about Teabaggers, fascists and deranged Hate Talk Radio fans (or some combination of the 3) challenging them from the right than of ... »
In his Easter Weekend video/radio address, President Barack Obama reflects on the ties that bind humanity together. ** OBAMA THIS WEEKEND. President Barack Obama is in Washington. Obama has received the intelligence and economic briefings in the Oval O... »
The latest polling in Alabama and Mississippi-- the heart and soul of the modern, unreconstructed Republican Party-- shows that the presidential nomination is too close to call. Their hearts are with Newt or Santorum or Palin or Rick Perry but they are... »
Gov. Brown is pushing forward with his budget-balancing plan to raise income and sales taxes in a November ballot initiaitve, even though his competes with at least two other tax-hike measures. Conventional wisdom holds that voters may vote all of them... »
The US will deploy its first floating special operations base to the waters of the Middle East with the purpose of combating the threat emanating from Iran. ** NEW COLUMN COMING UP … JERRY BROWN, (PARTIALLY) EMERGED FROM STEALTH MODE, MAKES SOME MOVES.... »
Tommy Thompson, who's running for the open Wisconsin Senate seat, will have just passed his 71st birthday on election day-- if he gets through a cutthroat primary of extreme right wing zealots also looking for that career step. He's leading the GOP fie... »
Dan Walters, in today's video report, lays out how wealthy civil rights lawyer Molly Munger could play havoc with Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot tax campaign. The Legislature has floor sessions today, with the Senate meeting at 2 p.m. and the... »
