More than 251 times as many people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than in the ghastly attacks of September 11, 2001. More than 108 times as many people have been killed in these wars and occupations than in all terrorist attacks to date.

Some lawmakers want to prohibit federal dollars from paying for abortions

New York - Can we talk? That is, can Americans really communicate? The word means, literally, "To make common." And at times like this, I wonder if it's possible.

Obama was elected because people took him seriously when he promised real change. So why won't he take bold action on any of these fronts? Is it because if he did, the Republicans would abandon him and crush his dream of bipartisanship?

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists

This could have been prevented!

The bill has been described as the biggest overhaul of the country's healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. Among those who voted no was Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich, a leading proponent of a single-payer, Medicare-for-all healthc

Ugly, ignorant replies to Elie Weisel who criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan

When a Soldier comes home they find it hard to..

Sarah Palin didn't allow press at her speech Friday at a Wisconsin Right to Life fundraising banquet, and attendees were barred from bringing cell phones, cameras, laptops, or recording devices of any kind. But Politico managed to get a few reporters in