Member 2810Angry voters (USATODAY.com)15-05-2008 13h20USATODAY.com - Republicans were already on red alert after they lost "safe" GOP congressional seats to Democrats in Illinois in March and Louisiana earlier this month. But Tuesday's win by Democrat Travis Childers in a solidly Republican district in north Mississippi was devastating. The party spent $1.3 million, flew in Vice President Cheney and still lost by eight points. Common Ground (USATODAY.com)15-05-2008 13h16USATODAY.com - Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot. They co-wrote the book Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America Memo to candidates and my liberal pals: Southerners aren't stupid (The Christian Science Monitor)15-05-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - Moving to Baton Rouge from Washington terrified me. After all, it's the South, and not a charming part of the South, either. People drive pickup trucks outfitted with gun racks, strip malls are ubiquitous, and giant crosses dot the interstate. Where racial healing happens (The Christian Science Monitor)15-05-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - Shortly after Senator Obama's speech on race this March, a friend likened the racial issue to an old coffee pot that keeps percolating. Every few years something happens to bring the vexed problem bubbling to the surface. Iran pumps iron in the Middle East (The Christian Science Monitor)15-05-2008 17h00The Christian Science Monitor - In the great Shiite-Sunni Muslim clash that cleaves the Middle East, score one for Iran's radical Shiite theocracy. Through its militant proxy, Hezbollah, Iran has shown it can be the real power in Lebanon. And it took only a few days to do it. A Sublime Moment For Cable TV--Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement. (HuffingtonPost.com)16-05-2008 10h56HuffingtonPost.com - Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39--that exhausted neo-con trope--to our current situation vis-à-vis Iran and etc. The exchange was pegged to Bush's political exploitation of Israel's 60th anniversary. California Decision Makes Same-Sex Marriage a 2008 Issue (The Nation)16-05-2008 07h45The Nation - The Nation -- Same-sex marriage just made a major comeback as a campaign issue. Winter Soldiers, Part II (The Nation)16-05-2008 06h35The Nation - The Nation -- Over the past two months since this year's Winter Soldier event, a parade of luminaries has gone before Congress to testify about the Iraq War: distinguished generals, cabinet secretaries and various think-tank dignitaries. One group, however, has been conspicuously absent from the conversation: soldiers. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 1861 Member 3295 Member 1985 Member 1378 Member 1323 Member 4524 Member 3789 Member 4668 Member 2804 Member 511 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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