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Warning this is long Much has been written about the ethical implications of Senator McCain’s involvement in the Keating 5 scandal where McCain attempted to influence a federal regulator at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to ease off on the investigation of Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings & Loan.   McCain received over $100K from […]

Just when you thought that the Reverend Wright controversy was over, he opens his big mouth again and blasts the founding fathers of this great country. From FoxNews, Wright had this to say about our greatest minds in American history, Wright, who is on sabbatical before retiring from Trinity United, said America’s mistreatment of blacks […]

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Grace Lopez of Mi Familia Vota.  Mi Familia Vota is a non partisan agency that seeks to mobilize Latino voters in the state of Coloarado to get out and vote in 2008, and the agency also seeks to educate voters on issues affecting the Latino community. Currently, Latino […]

Betsy McCaughey’s article in The New Republic took Hillary Clinton’s 1993 health insurance plan apart so decisively that it never recovered. Now, she’s published questions for Clinton and Obama about their health care plans. The questions probably won’t be asked at Thursday’s debate, but why not have Jared and Joan give their answers here? These […]

Governor Ritter announced a compromise today concerning expansion of health care coverage in Colorado. http://www.rockymountainnews.c… I applaud the Governor for his commitment to providing coverage for all children in Colorado by 2010. The compromise itself was a bit of a disappointment to me, and hearing the Governor cite a lack of political will to find […]

America’s middle classes are no longer coping By Robert Reich Published: January 29 2008 19:10 | Last updated: January 29 2008 19:10 It is an election year and the US economy is in peril of falling into recession or worse. Not surprisingly, Washington is abuzz with plans to prevent it. President George W. Bush has […]

Obama’s speech at Dr. King Church So let us say that on this day of all days, each of us carries with us the task of changing our hearts and minds. The division, the stereotypes, the scape-goating, the ease with which we blame our plight on others — all of this distracts us from the […]

Markos points out the hypocrisy of the Hillary campaign in Great presidents according to Hillary So what did Hillary Clinton tell the Salmon Press editorial board? Apparently, nothing different than what Obama said. But no president can do it alone. She must break recent tradition, cast cronyism aside and fill her cabinet with the best […]

First, I want to say, I have resisted calling out Obama’s campaign for the most part, however, when I have stood up for Obama in several diaries against the Clinton smear machine, I took comfort that both campaigns had a common adversary – Clinton. Furthermore, most people here agree that Clinton has resorted to these […]

  By Frosty Wooldridge The Political Prosecution of Immigration Enforcement Agent Cory Voorhis! On a dark night over a year ago on the U.S./Mexican border, drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrette-Davila, a Mexican national, attempted to cross into the United States with his load of contraband.  That load included corruption, deadly drugs, addictions for our children, crime […]

Was Ross Perot right about the North American Free Trade Agreement and its effects on workers and immigration? That is the subject of my newest nationally syndicated newspaper column out this past Friday. This is a key question in the wake of Hillary Clinton trying to laugh off the topic at the last presidential debate […]

Note sure this got posted. During the Dem debate in Las Vegas, Wolf Blitzer asked Hillary whether Ross Perot was right about NAFTA. She just laughed and said all she recalled were the charts and had only a vague recollection of NAFTA. Well, was Ross Perot right? The text below appeared in David Sirota’s column […]

A simple overview of why regulation came into place after the Great Depression, how markets don’t self police, and how it’s “deja vu all over again” in Wall Street’s Wild, Wild, West. And mostly, how we are all paying for these follies…..again. From the LA Times by Robert Kuttner.  He is the author of “The […]

From American Rights at Work You probably haven’t heard of Dean Singleton or his MediaNews Group, but you’ve most likely read one of his 57 daily papers.  Singleton is in the business of buying and restructuring local newspapers.  But his goal is not just to turn a profit – Singleton squeezes every drop out of […]

Addressing a reporter I believe, This from a retiring FSO: Before you even hint at accusing FSO’s of lacking nobility and courage I invite you (and others indulging in this kind of careless slander) to visit the Department of State’s C Street lobby and read the names engraved on the walls. Pay particular attention to […]

With the recent implementation of the Mexican trucking company portion of Clinton’s NAFTA bill, we are seeing the race to the bottom for wages and good jobs in the United States. The only good jobs that NAFTA could not outsource were shipping jobs, and now that is being dismantled. With Union buster, Mark Penn working […]

[First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate 2008 Guru: Following the Races.] Does it seem like there’s a new Republican scandal in the news every single week?  Well, that may be because there is. That seems like an awful lot of corruption, scandal, hypocrisy, impropriety, and jail-worthy crime, huh?  A lot of corruption.  One […]