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... »
The 15 second web-ad above makes the point that reactionary Blue Dog Tim Holden of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania isn't really a Democrat. In past years-- when Holden's 17th congressional district meandered south and west from Schuylkill-- into solid ... »
Bob Scheer isn't looking any more forward to voting for conservative Democrat Barack Obama than I am. We both live in California, so neither of us presumably has to-- as we would if we lived in swing states like Florida, Ohio, Nevada or Iowa-- and I pl... »
The next bipartisan tag team to end the war on drugs?Perhaps you remember a couple weeks ago, right-wing culture warrior and religionist charlatan Pat Robertson advocating marijuana legalization. He broached the subject on The 700 Club and followed up ... »
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... »
God is great! Bill Moyers is back on PBS. The above clip features an interview with Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota populist who warned most strenuously about the sleazy corporatists-- of both parties-- repealing Glass-Steagall. That repeal is, undoubte... »
by JuanLet me get this straight. Monkeyboy's mom, Barbara "Do I look like the Quaker Oats guy?" Bush brings him 'round to the hospital to see his miscarried and quite dead sibling in a jar and dang if that didn't cure Dubya of any pro-choice flirtation... »
STOCKTON -- Mitt Romney, speaking at a private fundraiser in Stockton this morning, kept up his criticism of President Barack Obama's recent hot mic incident, while mentioning none of his Republican rivals, attendees said. The event, at the home of... »
