Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News/MCT In this 2006 file photo Alaskan Republican gubernatorial candidate for governor Sarah Palin is pictured at her election night headquarters. | By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON ? Sen. John McCain’s choice of a running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, favors drilling for oil in the Arctic [...]
Archive for August 29th, 2008
29 Aug
Palin, With Reputation as Reformer, Faces Probe Over Firing
Friday 29 August 2008 by: McClatchy Newspapers Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, picked Friday to be Senator John McCain’s running mate in his pursuit of the presidency, remains close to Alaska’s Republican senior senator, Ted Stevens. (Photo: Kiichiro Sato / AP) Washington – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, picked Friday to be Senator John McCain’s running [...]
29 Aug
Feeling no pain
By PAUL KRUGMAN?SYNDICATED COLUMNIST My first reaction to Bill Clinton’s convention speech was sheer professional jealousy: Nobody, but nobody, has his ability to translate economic wonkery into plain, forceful English. In effect, Clinton provided an executive summary of the new Census report on income, poverty and health insurance — but he did it so eloquently, [...]
29 Aug
Cool, tough, focused: This was a man ready for action
RUPERT CORNWELL?SYNDICATED COLUMNIST DENVER — Maybe it wasn’t quite his greatest speech ever. Barack Obama has long since set the bar so high that even he on occasion falls short of the summit. Convention acceptance speeches moreover — even one in a football stadium with a firework show to rival the Beijing Olympics — rarely [...]
29 Aug
VIDEO: ‘Wake Up America!’
Speech at Democratic Party Convention by Rep Dennis Kucinich Rep. Dennis Kucinich Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich delivered one of the most passionate addresses Tuesday night. “Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more,” Kucinich said. “War against Iran will mean $10-a-gallon gasoline. The oil administration wants [...]
29 Aug
What a McCain Victory Could Mean: No Money for Health Care and the End of Our Volunteer Army
By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted August 28, 2008. The price tag for John McCain’s war lust would mean virtually every other national priority would be short-changed or neglected. In judging the shape of a future John McCain presidency, there are already plenty of dots that are easy to connect. They reveal an image of [...]
29 Aug
Obama’s Progressive, Populist Agenda: “Now Is Not the Time for Small Plans”
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted August 29, 2008. Obama has shown the pathway out of the decades-long, ruinous mess conservative rule has created. Barack Obama opened the final phase of the 2008 presidential election by unveiling an unabashedly populist, progressive agenda to renew America’s promise in the 21st century. Speaking at the final night of [...]
29 Aug
Alaska Chooses Largest Gold Mine Over Clean Water
By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. Posted August 29, 2008. Alaska is one step closer to approving Pebble Mine, which threatens the world’s largest salmon fishery and native communities. The spawning of salmon is something of a primal, epic drama. After spending their life of several years in the sea, the fish make their way up streams [...]
29 Aug
Bush Steps Up Fight Over US Congressional Authority
AfterDowningStreet The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and the U.S. Congress. Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will soon ask a federal appeals court not to force the president’s top advisers to comply with congressional subpoenas next month. [...]
29 Aug
Public Opinion Snapshot: The Economic Reality of the Past Seven Years
Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | August 29, 2008 The latest income and poverty figures from the Census Bureau show that, while there were some improvements during 2007, the typical family, after seven years of tepid economic ?expansion,? has still not made up the ground it lost in the last recession?unprecedented by historical [...]
