Slightly more than half (53%) of Americans in the new poll do not approve of candidates making statements contrary to U.S. government policy while visiting U.S. troops in a war zone. Only 29% believe that it's okay to do so.
...a small crowd is better than a large one, a passionate crowd inferior to a bored one, where drawing a million people in Berlin is less likely to be compared with Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy but to Hitler Youth chanting ``Sieg heil!''
Sneaked into the bill is a provison that will require that all credit card transactions be reported to the IRS. To learn more, watch the video. Well worth your time.
A new poll shows John McCain made gains on Barack Obama in four key November battleground states -- Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin -- giving McCain a slight edge in one state, and chipping away at Obama's lead in the others.
July 18 event find him speaking almost incoherently in admitting, for once, that his friends in big business had screwed up: "There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got
In a largely meaningless move, President Bush last week lifted one of two bans on offshore oil drilling that had been in place since his father's term in the White House. It was largely meaningless because there is a second ban on offshore drilling --
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Barack Obama fans are quick to compare their candidate to President John F. Kennedy. In fact, the two are much alike: pro-business, imperial-minded politicians who are undeservedly tagged as progressives by folks who should know better. "JFK inhabited
AT&T gives so much money to the Democratic Party that it gets its logo top billing on the official Democratic National Convention tote bag. Then, Democratic members of Congress give special immunity to AT&T. Quid pro quo?
Enforcement of wage-and-hour laws, to ensure workers get at least the minimum wage and the overtime pay they deserve, has dropped drastically under the GOP Bush government
''The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people ... who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years,'' he said recently, evidently looking beyond this fall's election to a second term in the White House.
Auditors at an oversight agency of the Pentagon were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on a major defense contractor's work, hiding wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report from the Government Accountability Offic
"Mukasey was supposed to come in and clean up the Justice Department, but instead he seems to be intent on burying any evidence of wrongdoing by the Bush administration," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office,
Terrorism is not something that any of us likes. We would all like to see a world without violence and bloodshed. since the war on terror began, the incidents that qualify as terrorism have increased by an incredible 26 times.
John McCain, resigned to what an adviser memorably called "table scraps" of news coverage this week, has blasted a fundraising e-mail to supporters arguing that the press has "a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama."
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