BP Credibility Questions Grow as U.S. Lawmakers Press Inquiry

The BP Oil Spill in addition to an unprecedented disaster is another in a series of wake up calls. It is an opportunity to require all industries to improve their safety procedures and to be responsible for the all damage they do both to lives and to the environment.

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Republicans Signal Obama May Have a Fight in Replacing Stevens

So Obama is again going to wimp out. He will nominate someone that is acceptable to the minority rather than struggle to get a liberal Supreme Court Justice. The more things CHANGE the more they stay the same.

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Limbaugh Embraces Costa Rica Socialized Medicine

Maybe Oxycontin and Viagra are cheaper there. I'll bet they won't put up with his "the sky is falling" show there.

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Republicans Fan Distrust of Senate in Bid to Thwart Health Bill

Republicans should all resign from the Senate. That might stop health care.

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FedEx Ally Blocks Aviation Measure in Fight With UPS

Senator Corker you are saying your boss is the corporation NOT the PEOPLE. Politicians that vote no on the people get no votes at elections. Enjoy your retirement. Maybe FEDEX will hire you as a lobbyist.

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Judges Urge Congress to Act on Indefinite Terrorism Detentions

If you have a psychotic axe murderer, who decides when and how he will be released back into society if say his rights were violated in the judicial process?

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Health Care

Americans will only grant change if Obama evokes an emotionally compelling narrative.

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Health-Care Reform Will Test Obama\'s Resolve

As the legislative debate over health care intensifies on Capitol Hill, there is growing clamor for President Obama to step in. White House officials believe it\'s wiser to wait, but at some point the president will have to make clear what he\'ll accept and what he won\'t.

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\'No Comment\' Is Not an Option

The president should place his personal prestige behind the peaceful conduct of the demonstrators in Iran.

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CIA Fired Firms Aiding Questioning

Weeks after President Obama took office, the CIA extended its contract with a firm run by two psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding and other harsh methods to the agency\'s interrogation techniques, according to a news report.

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Obama Stumps for Health-Care Reform

GREEN BAY, Wis., June 11 -- As President Obama traveled to the heartland to sell a government-run insurance plan as essential to health-care reform, Senate negotiators began to explore a possible bipartisan compromise modeled after rural cooperatives.

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Obama Bows on Settling Detainees

The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live in the United States, administration officials said yesterday, a decision that reflects bipartisan congressional opposition to admitting such prisoners …

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U.S. Urges New Look at State-Secrets Case

The Obama administration yesterday petitioned a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that it should not have to reveal details of the CIA\'s \'black site\' prison program, adopting an expansive position that activists say would prevent victims of rendition in the Bush  …

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CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed

The Obama administration objected yesterday to the release of certain Bush-era documents that detail the videotaped interrogations of CIA detainees at secret prisons, arguing to a federal judge that doing so would endanger national security and benefit al-Qaeda\'s recruitment eff …

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Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques

Former vice president Richard B.

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The Moral Burden

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The faces of the new GOP leadership

A litany of losers. Nattering nabobs of negativity. Plagiarists of the anti drug slogan, Just say NO. Party before politics, politics before country, money (to themselves) before ALL

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Body scanners replace metal detectors in tryout at Tulsa airport

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