Debt Ceiling talks: Let’s make a deal or hostage-negotiation.

In his article the other day, Matthew Norman (The Telegraph UK) quite aptly compares President Obama’s problems with trying to negotiate with the Tea Party to that of the fictional American President in the 1998 movie “Deep Impact.” The president

Firedog Lake to SEC: Revoke S&P’s authority as a credit rating agency.

So what’s up with Firedog Lake and its petition to the SEC to revoke Standard & Poor’s authority as a credit rating agency? Standard & Poors has gotten into the political arena doing its best to be a kingmaker for

Voter Suppression is not a myth, and neither is the system of apartheid.

Voter suppression is not a new strategy for the GOP, it’s a standard. In the words of Paul Weyrich, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and some other far-right of the right groups, had this to say about “getting

Sen. McConnell denies he won’t negotiate, except with the President?

Did I hear correctly? Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell won’t negotiate with anyone except perhaps the President? Really. Then, when that tidbit hit the airways, his office promptly fired back a denial of same fast! I’m hopeful that such a

Speaker Boehner does what we thought he would do all along – cave into Tea Party demands..

House Speaker John Boehner says today he’s talking about jobs — NOT. He says he put revenues on the table and yet there isn’t anything in his current bill that remotely resembles revenues. It’s just more show, albeit a little

Corporate Personhood and the Right to Lie to Us.

We have to keep on pushing forward and not let up on any front. Tell the GOP holdouts on a balanced budget cut approach as the President outlined last night is the way to go — everybody shares in cleaning

Mother and son hit by drunk driver. Drunk driver get 6 months. Mother faces 3 years.

Here’s one that will rock your senses. A mother and her small children exit a bus to get home. They stand at a street corner waiting for the light to change. But the mother’s young son bolt’s from her side

Murdoch apologizes but says he’s not responsible for illegal activity within News Corp.

First Lady’s partnership with nation’s grocers has many benefits.

Amid all the news noise over the debt ceiling and the lack of governing know-how displayed by core Tea Party members of Congress, there is good news for the health of our nation and more. First Lady Michelle Obama meets

Color of Change: Should sagging pants get you kicked off a flight? Arrested? Jailed?

That’s the question that I got in an email alert this morning from my friends at Color of Change. Personally, I don’t like sagging pants. One of my grandson’s visited the other day and his pants were sagging, showing his

Media Matters. Don’t let Rupert Murdoch escape the truth.

My friends at Media Matters need our signatures.| One of the great things about our country is that no matter how powerful and influential you are, you are not above the law. No one knows that better today than Rupert Murdoch

Sen. McCain. News Corp problems are just a British issue.

Really? As the rest of the world watches not only with great intrigue but with mounting concern over the unraveling of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Great Britain, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says it’s a “British issue.”

Rep Eric Cantors $350 BN Mediare/Caid Cuts and the 45 thousand who die each year because of no insurance

So now what do Republicans want to do? Rep. Eric Cantor proposes to cut $350 billion from Medicare and Medicaid as a “deal” to agree on the debt ceiling issue. With those kinds of cuts, how many more lives will be

If Murdoch’s news group hacked Royals in UK, what’s his news group doing in US?

The wires are hot with the story unraveling in England over Rupert Murdoch’s British media group. As formal investigations are underway, it’s now suspected that the Royal Household email and cell phones have also been hacked.

Fox News goes after Media Matters while Murdoch’s empire seems to implode

Fox News ratchets up its attacks against Media Matters to shut it down. Their recent attack is to demand the IRS revoke Media Matters tax-exempt status. No doubt, it’s trying to defund the progressive group.

Murdoch flies to London to close tabloid

Many see the scandal of personal phone and email hacking by Murdoch’s News of the World media group in the UK as a significant blow to Murdoch’s political clout. Could this be the beginning of the unraveling of an empire?