Terrorists Crossing the Border: Genuine Threat or Hard-Right Ploy to End Immigration?
by Russ Wellen
The left is notorious for its queasiness about national security. It's as if it's afraid to bring the issue up for fear that hawks will use it as a license to wage even more war. Let sleeping dogs lie, progressives think, as they rattle on about diplomacy to the exclusion of a rational discussion about the use of force. |
Assessing Super Tuesday
by Bob Burnett
Tuesday afternoon, driving around Berkeley and Oakland and seeing the number of "Obama for President" signs, it was easy to believe the predictions that he was going to win the California Democratic primary. Nonetheless, sixty minutes after the polls closed, the TV networks declared Senator Clinton the winner. Despite this setback, the Obama campaign continues to gain momentum. |
Breaking News: Obama's teen drug use sporadic and mild!
by Weldon Berger
Serge Kovaleski's New York Times story on Barack Obama's youthful flirtation with recreational drugs has been in the works for a while. Obama wrote about his drug use in his autobiographical "Dreams of My Father", and his mention of the subject prompted a brief flurry of stupidity in December culminating in the resignation of a top Clinton campaign official. Rumors began circulating around then that the Times was planning a major story on the issue. So, what did the paper find? |
Swing to Obama Expected
by Ewen Macaskill
Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is bracing for Barack Obama to take the lead later this month in the battle for the all-important delegates who will decide the Democratic nomination for the US presidency.0209 05The race for the candidacy looks poised to swing Senator Obama’s way after this weekend’s round of voting in Washington State, Nebraska, the Virgin Islands and Louisiana. |
An Education Lesson for Clinton and Obama
by Derrick Z. Jackson
Neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama talk much about a pachyderm in the room, and it is not the mascot of the GOP.Put it like this: Do you think either Obama or Clinton will really take college presidents to the woodshed to provide universal affordability? |
Senator McCain: Have You and Reagan Surrendered?
by Bill Hare
It is interesting, Senator McCain, how you, in an effort to get more Republicans aboard your presidential ship, how you push two buttons you hope will achieve immediate success: 1) accusing the Democrats of “surrender”; 2) invoking the name of Ronald Reagan as you proclaim yourself to have been an early foot soldier in the “Reagan Revolution.” |
Europeans see what America cannot
by Eric Margolis
At this week's NATO conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, an angry U.S. Secretary of Defence Robert Gates accused some Europeans of not being prepared to "fight and die" in Afghanistan in the battle against the Taliban.The undiplomatic Gates is quite right. Most Europeans regard the Afghan conflict as a. wrong and immoral; b. America's war; c. all about oil; or d. probably lost. |
Flying a Chinese-Made American Flag to Stimulate the Economy
by Walter Brasch
Walking down Main Street, pushing a grocery cart loaded with clothes, toys, and appliances was Marshbaum. Fastened to the right front corner of the cart was an American flag tied onto a three-foot ruler."Patriot!" he was calling out. "Step aside for an American patriot!" |
There's nothing mainstream about the corporate media
by Harvey Wasserman
As we stumble toward another presidential election, it's never been more clear that our political process is being warped by a corporate stranglehold on the free flow of information. Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a horrific war, a global ecological crisis and an advancing economic collapse, what passes for the mass media is itself in collapse. What's left of our democracy teeters on the brink. |
Writers Guild asks members to ratify contract, end strike
by AP
The Writers Guild of America moved swiftly Sunday toward a resolution of its three-month-old strike, with guild leaders deciding to recommend the contract to members and ask them to vote on a quick end to the walkout. By asking writers to vote separately on ending the strike and accepting the contract, the union cleared the way for the entertainment industry to return to work almost immediately. |
Clinton replaces campaign manager
by Sasha Johnson
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton has replaced her campaign manager with a longtime adviser, Maggie Williams, the campaign announced Sunday. Patti Solis Doyle has been reassigned to a senior adviser's job, the Clinton campaign announced in a memo to its staff. |
Plan would sidestep Electoral College
by Raw Story
If John R. Koza gets his way, American voters will never again have to wonder about the workings of the Electoral College and why it decides who sits in the White House.Koza is behind a push to have states circumvent the odd political math of the Electoral College and ensure that the presidency always goes to the winner of the popular vote. |
