Articles for Politics

EXCERPT: To live in the Communist Soviet Union was a bleak experience.  Indeed, for many it was also a short experience.    I remember a joke about that as I grew up during the Cold War era.  The commissar of the agricultural commune called a meeting. “I have great news comrades.  The politburo has implemented a new and improved plan for your old age.  It is now possible to live to old age!”    And of course we read about the...

EXCERPT: The first question outta the chute at last night's presidential debate had to do with the candidates' selection of Hank Paulson's successor at Treasury and McSame's choice was stellar - Meg Whitman, late of eBay, now Co-Chair of the When Meg joined eBay as CEO, it was a dinky auction site with 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenues.  By the time she left, the company had 15,000 employees and was worth roughly $39 billion. Let's...

EXCERPT: US Senator Joe Biden, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks with Shalom TV CEO Mark S. Golub on Israel and Jewish-related issues in this exclusive interview. Shalom TV is an American Jewish cable television network carried on Comcast and Blue Ridge cable systems. Complete programming information is available online at http://www.shalomtv.com

Former officials say Iran helped on al-Qaida
By BARRY SCHWEID – 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an effort to help the...

EXCERPT: Farias and he, Kim and Manzo were fired.  Jeff did not quit; he cannot say more at this point.
Let's keep up our support for him!  Some one has lost their mind!
ETB
Insults and gratuitous profanity will be ignored, at least by...

EXCERPT: It turns out that Arizona's very own Straight Talker has chosen to try to link others they've served on community boards with as ideological life mate, which if McCain says it, it must be true.
But if that is true, then what are we to make of John McCain's involvement with the US Council for World Freedom, which was a part of an umbrella of anti- Semite hate groups, aimed at destabilizing and overthrowing communists, and as a gathering place for racist kooks, anti- Semites, and right...

EXCERPT: to be working RE: Jeff Farias
Please, leave comments; I'll try for a poll...

EXCERPT: Like BAA Boy shows us in his rant against the print media, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture when one focuses on the day to day coverage of the presidential race - but the Wall Street collapse and bailout was a seminal event in the nation’s history and in our politics. Americans have lost 1 trillion dollars in net worth in the last month alone! And, just as Bush's failures in Iraq have undermined his party's advantage on national security issues, this...

EXCERPT: In the latest issue of Newsweek there is an article about Black America's reaction to an Obama loss. Titled "What IF Obama Loses? African-Americans thought he had no chance-then they started to believe. Now they fear defeat." The subtitle reads like a civil rights case from the 1960s or the latest episode of Law and Order.
Written by Allison Samuels, the piece quotes from radio talk show host Michael Baisden,"Look, if he loses we have no one to blame but ourselves because that meant...

EXCERPT: Over the past week something has become crystal clear in my mind; Our American Press Sucks at what they do.
The NYTimes, Washington Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, both the local Az Republic and Review Journal here in Nevada, they all suck. Not one of these papers is worthy of our respect based on the crap they turn out. In fact you could compare them all to People Magazine at the end of the day for all the real insight they hand out especially about the so...

EXCERPT: expert on energy: "Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that's with the energy independence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." 9/11/08  Never mind that the actual amount of energy produced by Alaska is only 3.5 percent! "Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they...