The US has condemned a Taliban video of an American soldier captured by the militants in Afghanistan last June as an affront to his family at Christmas... Private Bowe Robert Bergdahl, criticises the US over the Afghan war and relations with Muslims.

We've all heard the phrase, "The system worked." It's usually uttered after some contentious, tumultuous, needlessly complicated process meets with a satisfactory conclusion. The suitable result, in these cases, came not from a radical departure....

As we begin our deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, this Christmas Eve will also mark the 3,000th day of the war in Afghanistan and the 30th anniversary of the initial Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. RETHINK AFGHANISTAN!!!

As with David, I'd like to take a moment away from the holiday to highlight a story which I don't want buried. The NYTimes reported yesterday that Acorn broke no laws. None. In the last five years. But the Democratic Congress still threw them...

A video By Noam Chomsky. "America is not a democracy, nor was it intended to be". Corporate greed rules America. Always has, always will.

My husband was on parole for a crime based on someone elses lies. He did 17 years of a 40 year sentence. He lost his job and was afraid of...

President Obama praised the Senate's 60-39 passage of the $871 billion health care overhaul bill despite the fact that not a single Republican voted in favor following 24 consecutive days of often bitter debate and deep partisanship.

An unusual day-before-Christmas vote in the Senate to enact health care legislation will end what President Obama described Wednesday as "a grueling process" -- and will set the stage for another.

'Moderation' has come to mean weighing the interests of campaign contributors -- Big Pharma vs. the insurance companies -- with little concern for the American people. ** Read and learn of midnight deals that forget about you, but not money.

Since Robert C. Byrd arrived in the Senate in 1959, the senior senator from West Virginia has cast more than 18,500 votes