Category: Political Commentary
Another university is bringing Christine O’Donnell’s self-professed education history into question Wednesday, as Claremont Graduate University, a school that the Delaware Senate candidate claims she attended, has told Talking Points Memo that they have no record of her being there.
The staggering upset of former Delaware governor and nine-term congressman Mike Castle at the hands of a perpetual candidate with no actual legislating experience has everybody wondering: just who is Christine O’Donnell? WELL, take a look for yourself…
For most Americans, the Great Recession never ended, and for many of the 14.9 million unemployed Americans, it’s a 21st century Depression. Americans that have lost wages, lost jobs, lost value in homes, and lost substantial value in investments and retirement funds. The U.S. middle class is being scammed out of existence
At what point does great wealth held in a few hands actually harm democracy, threatening to turn a democratic republic into an oligarchy? Thomas Jefferson suggested that it would be dangerous if individuals became so rich that their wealth could influence or challenge government.
Speaking on Governor’s Island, misty-eyed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised a decision to allow an Islamic center to be built near Ground Zero. Bloomberg choked up during his delivery, which highlighted the spirit of religious tolerance and freedoms once sought by New York’s earliest settlers.
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets….
Happy Days are not coming any time soon to America — and not to most of the world. It is realistic — not pessimistic or fatalistic — to believe that we have reached the twilight of the oil-industrial age. A global reckoning is coming sooner than we would wish, and the US government and President Obama, sadly, are not stepping up to the leadership plate.
As I reflect upon the words President Obama spoke in his victory speech and think of the furor that has erupted over the “Ground Zero Mosque” proposal, as the Chairman of The Foundation Of Ethnic Understanding, I am appalled. Am I in a dream? I can’t even believe, that in this day and age, we are even discussing this…..
We just experienced eight years of Republican control with no tolerance for debate or criticism, much less bipartisanship and now they are acting less like an opposition party and more like an obstructionist party.
Tuesday, February 7, 3:51 am
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Iran Could Be the Big Winner of the U.S. War in Iraq!
As the U.S. Army leaves Iraq many Iraqis wonder what the U.S. occupation accomplished, as we leave their country with a litany of unresolved issues. Another statling revelation is that the Kurds are selling their oil to Iran to which Gen. Odierno reluctantly admitted that Iran could end up the big beneficiary of the U.S. invasion.