Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) penned an editorial for the Huffington Post Monday that urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create rules regulating net neutrality from internet providers. The FCC is set to issue new proposed guidelines during a meeting Tuesday and early word is that the policy More…
A lot of hubbub this morning surrounding a Huffington Post article that suggested the White House was willing to cave on its position of permanently extending tax cuts for most Americans while only temporarily extending those for the upper two percent and instead accept the idea of a temporary More…
The Huffington Post has two stories on various politicians and policymakers warming to the idea of breaking up big banks and possibly bringing back parts of Glass-Steagall, an act that prohibited companies from mixing insurance, commercial and investment banking functions that Congress repealed in 1999, making way for today’s More…
Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that More…
When it comes to health care, at least, following the polls can be tricky.
Take this latest one Sam Stein reports on for The Huffington Post, showing that 77 percent of Americans think it’s important to have a “choice” between government-run health insurance and private coverage. That poll More…
Seeking to dismiss criminal fraud charges against him, Raymond Azar, a 45-year-old Lebanese construction manager working for an English contractor, has charged that he was seized in Afghanistan and tortured before before being sent to Virginia to face trial.
Scott Horton reports on the case and provides links More…
I hate to pour cold water on Sam Stein here, but the Republican National Committee health care memo from Alex Castellanos that I quote from in my story today is not new or secret. It went out on July 7, and the RNC has happily passed it on More…
That’s the line from the Guardian Council. As The Wall Street Journal reports, this is part of the regime trying to stop the opposition, especially ahead of today’s planned general strike. With its central demand ruled out, the contradictions in Iran are heightening. @PersianKiwi hears “reports that More…
If you thought President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor was a good sign for Latinos, think again — the latest buzz is that Obama picked Sotomayor as a consolation prize for all his Hispanic supporters clamoring for comprehensive immigration reform, which so far he’s not doing much about.
So writes More…
We already knew that Republicans were fighting tooth and nail to keep President Obama from closing the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and fulfilling one of the first pledges of his presidency, but now it looks like the Democrats in the Senate — Obama’s supposed allies — are working against More…
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