http://www.latimes.com…
Think Goldwater is the father of conservatism? Think again.
By Neal Gabler
November 30, 2008
Ever since the election, partisans within the Republican Party and observers outside it have been speculating wildly about what direction the GOP will take to revive itself from its disaster. Or, more specifically, which wing of the party will prevail in setting the [...]
http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com…
Author: The Christian Progressive Liberal
When I’ve interviewed for jobs (and I’ve had to do that with increasing regularity in the past month or so), I complied with EVERYTHING prospective employers requested of me. Even if I didn’t get the job, they couldn’t turn me down because I lacked the qualifications, didn’t meet [...]
OTTAWA — Canada’s minority Conservative government, re-elected less than two months ago, could be toppled in the next few days if Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn’t make changes to an economic statement that has all three opposition parties up in arms.
Two of the three Canadian opposition parties are negotiating to form a coalition government, which [...]
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Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2008-11-18 18:40
Half the story has been told. On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that Bush is creating civil service positions for loyal appointees, in order to make it hard for Obama to get rid of them.
By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
Posted on November 20, 2008, Printed on November 21, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/107666/
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his [...]
1. Plame, Wilson to take CIA leak lawsuit to Supreme Court…
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, plan to take their civil lawsuit against Bush administration officials to the Supreme Court after a federal circuit court refused to rehear the case on Monday.
2. Crossing to Mexico for Hospitals and [...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com…
hat tip: John Aravosis at AMERICAblog, who says:
A real tour de force here. You may recall that Parker was one of the first, and only, conservatives to come out an admit that Sarah Palin was an embarrassment. Here she takes on quite possible the GOP’s biggest sacred cow, the religious right. She calls it “armband [...]
1. More and more of the lunatic fringe are losing it.…
Do you see a pattern here?
2. 2 Held in Election Night Beating of Black Youth…
The police said on Saturday that two 18-year-old men were arrested on Friday for the beating. The men, Ralph Nicoletti, of 35 Wadsworth Avenue, and Bryan Garaventa, of 169 Maryland Avenue, [...]
http://www.alternet.org…
By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Posted on October 31, 2008, Printed on October 31, 2008
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United States come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How [...]
http://ap.google.com…
By PETE YOST – 21 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
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