Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced legislation today to bar political parties from challenging the eligibility of voters whose homes have been foreclosed.
Kucinich, who ran losing presidential bids in 2004 and 2008 and faced a stiff primary challenge earlier this year, drafted the legislation following a report in the Michigan More…
Sen. Barack Obama just issued a response to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen today, which resulted in the deaths of 16 people, including six attackers. No Americans were killed.
Obama’s condemned the attack and stressed his commitment to redoubling efforts to destroy Al Qaeda:
There has been much debate about whether Sen. John McCain is a candidate of change. But in one area, McCain is unquestionably a reformer. He would almost certainly make fundamental changes in the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court.
McCain has said that, should he be president, Chief Justice John More…
Sen. Barack Obama ripped into his Republican rival today for undermining American workers and prioritizing a foreign corporate agenda over domestic manufacturing.
“Ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced!” Obama told a gathering of Florida Machinists in a satellite address. “The very companies that shipped More…
As Art Allen reported yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a proponent of a video game-style of hunting, where hunters shoot animals, like wolves and bears, from the sky in a low-flying airplane.
This morning I found a disturbing new ad from Defender’s of Wildlife Actionfund in my inbox More…
The wolf is an intelligent, handsome creature and, for many visitors to Alaska, an integral part of the state’s wild appeal. Wolves live in complex social structures, mate for life and don’t attack humans — it’s easy to see in them the family resemblance to mankind’s best friend.
That’s More…
As the presidential campaign heats up, the candidates are sure to intensify their differences on national security, the Iraq war and tax relief for the middle class, and they’ll no doubt tear into each other’s positions during the coming debates. But, based on the contest so far, don’t look for More…
A reader over at TPM speculates:
Whatever you think of the [Alaska Gov. Sarah] Palin speech, whether it was cynical or alienating to anyone outside the base, it was solidly written. I’d even say well written. [Sen. John] McCain’s wasn’t. It was decidedly second rate, not just
While most news channels focused on Sen. John McCain’s big night on Thursday, it was a battle of the B.O.s on Fox News.
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, made a much-hyped appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor” to tangle with Bill O’Reilly. The talk-show host had been pushing More…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Wednesday night at Humpy’s, a celebrated Anchorage bar, locals perked up when the half-dozen TVs flipped from music videos and sports to their governor, Sarah Palin taking the stage at the Republican National Convention to deliver her acceptance speech for the GOP vice-presidential nomination.
The crowd — More…
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