Last November, America said a resounding NO to Republican ideas and a full-throated YES to change, including a new and sensible health care system. By what tortured logic, then, is the committee drafting new health legislation composed of an EQUAL number of Democrats and Republicans?
What kind of dysfunctional democracy do we have [...]
If Health Care Reform dies in Congress, its blood will be on the hands of two groups of people and one individual:
Group 1:The Right Wing of the GOP (McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, Grassley, et al) that has spread misinformation and sown fear in the hearts of their constituents, aided and abetted by Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and [...]
Once again, the Neanderthals in the Republican party are wielding their ideological wrecking ball against the foundations of the American economy.
Not content to have precipitated the current economic crisis with their disgraced supply-side, trickle-down tax cuts obsession, Republicans are pushing the same proposals to fix the economy that created the mess in the first [...]
One of the benefits of having lived seven decades is that I’ve been witness to events that were not only personally thrilling, but that were memorable and historic for our country.
Sixty-one years ago, I saw Jack Roosevelt Robinson become the first black man to walk on big-league grass, and it made me proud not only [...]
A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected.
But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding:
23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama [...]
This is the candidate who says “I know how to win wars,†and “I know how to catch Bin Laden.â€
This week, John McCain’s positions on critical foreign policy issues such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have all been undermined by the assessments of our intelligence community, members of the military leadership and his own [...]
