Mar 18 2010
Republican Ahead in California Governor’s Race
On Wednesday a field poll revealed that Republican candidate for California Governor Meg Whitman, is more favored than Democrat Jerry Brown. Whitman faces off against Steve Poizner in the Republican primary in June but looks set to easily beat him. However, the California billionairess and former CEO of eBay, has no political record and has spent tens of millions …
On Wednesday a field poll revealed that Republican candidate for California Governor Meg Whitman, is more favored than Democrat Jerry Brown. Whitman faces off against Steve Poizner in the Republican primary in June but looks set to easily beat him. However, the California billionairess and former CEO of eBay, has no political record and has spent tens of millions …
“Coffee Partiers might focus more on the threat of concentrated, unaccountable corporate power, while Tea Partiers typically target concentrated unaccountable government power. But see a pattern? Imagine if we realized that the problem is concentrated power itself and joined together to create a democracy accountable to us. Now that would be a powerful brew.” So wrote my guest, …
This week marks the 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of legislation which made the U.S. an attractive home for men, women, and children fleeing persecution in other countries. In past decades however, escalating detentions and a barrage of new barriers have left asylum seekers trapped in a broken legal system where they encounter …
Robert F Kennedy Jr., a Senator from New York, one-time US Attorney General, Presidential candidate, and part of the Kennedy dynasty, has become an icon of modern American liberalism. His assassination at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles on June 5th 1968 shocked the nation and ended a promising political career. Among his various political works, civil rights ranked as …
After dumping tea into the Boston Harbor in July of 1773, the Continental Congress decided to declare coffee the national drink of the United States. On January 26th of 2010, a movement called the Coffee Party called for a return to the democratic ideals that had sprung from rebellion. Coffee Party USA began with a Facebook post by documentary-filmmaker Annabel Park. Frustrated by …
An annual Gallup Poll released on Thursday shows an increasing number of Americans are less concerned about the threat of global warming. In the highest numbers since tracking began thirteen years ago, forty-eight percent of those surveyed believed that the dangers posed by the changing climate are exaggerated. Despite a consensus within the scientific community, the Gallup Poll …
Senior House Democrats are cobbling together a new bill on healthcare, attaching a student aid bill that passed last September to the existing proposed healthcare legislation. The student aid bill, which cuts out private lenders from student loan programs altogether, passed the House by a greater margin than the healthcare bill – twenty seven more votes to be exact. Additionally, …
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced on Friday that the final version of the much-debated healthcare package would include another vital piece of legislation—a reform of federal student loan programs. Private banks had been furiously lobbying against the bill, which would cut out the middle man between students and the loans they need. Rather …
