Political Frenzy

Politics & News Channel Posts

• The Plot Against Liberal America by Thomas Frank
  The most cherished dream of conservative Washington is that liberalism can somehow be defeated, finally and irreversibly, in the way that armies are beaten and pests are exterminated. Electoral [...]
• Who's rich? McCain and Obama have very different definitions
  By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 18, 2008 WASHINGTON -- The rich may be different for John McCain and Barack Obama. On almost every issue, the two presidential [...]
• Missile agreement with Poland intensifies danger of US-Russian clash
  By Patrick Martin 16 August 2008 World Socialist Web Site The agreement between the United States and the right-wing government of Poland to base a US anti-missile system in that country is the [...]
• Elizabeth Edwards: More criticism?
  A recent article on CNN reports that Elizabeth Edwards is now being criticized for keeping her husband's affair secret so that his political ambitions could continue and so that she could advance her [...]
• Urban Green
  President Lyndon Johnson presided over a tumultuous period in US history. Protests over the War in Vietnam divided the country. And Johnson's bull in the china shop personality didn't exactly [...]
• American Idol adds fourth judge, a woman
  American Idol returns in January for its eighth season and Paula Abdul won't be the only estrogen-based body on the judges panel anymore. Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul will be joined [...]
• Women Suicide Bombers: Why are we so shocked?
  Just today I was watching some CNN, mainly for weather, because, truth is, news depresses me sometimes. I saw a story about a 15-year old Iraqi girl taken into custody by Iraqi officials because she [...]
• MOMs go to Convention
  I'm not new to the blogging world but in the past year I wasn't too aware of all the new sites and activism in the blog world. (I was home with a newborn and my reality contact and awareness was, [...]
• The Browning of the Greens
  Despite conflict between environmentalists and the immigrants' rights movement, congressional candidate Omar Lopez thinks the Greens could supplant the Democrats as Latinos' party of choice. By [...]
• McCain Logic
  Today the geniuses over at McCain headquarters decided to try a new strategy. They are now trying to get the Hillary supporters to turn on Obama. Real Smart The new TV ad has a clip of [...]