“The US will watch what Sharif does about extremists who threatened the election” – PJ Crowley A WHO will blink first situation over India and Kashmir caused Nawaz Sharif to be ousted from power through a military coup by Pervez Musharraf. Sharif is back, having won the Pakistan election, but what it will mean is [...]
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Joe Manchin: “We Will Not Get the Votes Today” [Video]
Perhaps helping explain Democrats’ problems, an AP-GfK poll this month showed that 49 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws. That was down from 58 percent who said so in January — a month after the December killings of 20 children and six aides at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school propelled gun violence into a [...]
A Squeaker in Venezuela for Chavez Heir
“This is the most delicate moment in the history of ‘Chavismo’ since 2002,” said Javier Corrales, a U.S. political scientist and Venezuela expert at Amherst College in Massachusetts, referring to a brief coup against Chavez 11 years ago. “With these results, the opposition might not concede easily, and Maduro will have a hard time demonstrating [...]
Is Pot Tourism the Next Big American Thing?
ONE OF the reasons I traveled to Amsterdam in the early ’90s was to interview legal prostitutes, as I continued my Vincent Van Gogh pilgrimage throughout my trip, which began in France. The legal soft-drug bars were simply a bonus. It’s where the girls I interviewed met me. Amsterdam perfected the soft-drug bar a long [...]
Justice Antonin Scalia’s “Perpetuation of Racial Entitlement”
Under Section 5 of the law, nine states, mostly in the South, but also including Alaska and Arizona, as well as dozens of counties, townships, cities, and elected boards in other states, must get permission, or “preclearance,” from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington for any change in voting procedures, no matter [...]
Republican Election-Rigging in Virginia and Beyond
NATIONAL REPUBLICANS who continue to be frustrated that the American voter won’t reward their extremism with handing them the national popular vote have started systematically to take voters out of the equation. It’s been making the news for days in Virginia. American Progress has released a document titled Grand Theft Election. How the Republican election-rigging [...]
Top Story — Sen. Patty Murray: If No Revenue from Republicans, Let Tax Cuts Expire, Start Over in 2013
“If the Republicans can’t see their way to significant additional revenues targeted toward the people who are best off and targeted toward passive income and other things like that, then we’re better off going over the cliff and readdressing this with a better Congress in January,” Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said. “And we would have [...]
News Desk: Netanyahu’s Likud Chooses Leadership List for January Election
Netanyahu’s Likud chooses list for January election (via AFP) The 123,000 registered members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling rightwing Likud party began casting votes in a leadership primary on Sunday ahead of a general election on January 22. Polling stations opened at 9:00 am (0700 GMT) and were to close 13 hours later [...]
MSNBC Bests Fact Free FNC
THE OBAMA network, aka MSNBC for those in an alternate universe, is annoying, because the American public has learned not to trust anyone because of our media picking sides. However, considering the prowess Fox News had achieved since its founding it’s clear something had to be done, so NBC did it. In the election of [...]
Voting, Austerity, Sherrod Brown and Chris Hayes [Videos]
ELECTION 2012 is over, but 12 years after 2000, voting still doesn’t work for everyone. Will reform actually happen? Will austerity win? …and a litte Senator Sherrod Brown. Watch. Discuss. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit [...]
Top Story — Voters Spoke, Now Obama Needs to Lead
THE POINT I made yesterday is the bottom line. Electorally and on the popular vote, President Obama and the Democrats hold the cards. But that’s only true if he knows it and the Democrats believe it. Compromise can be important, but it must never begin with unnecessarily bargaining with yourself for show or in order [...]
News Desk — With Florida, It’s Obama 332 – Romney 206
MITT ROMNEY conceded Florida this afternoon, with there just not enough votes left to push him over the top. From the Miami Herald: “The numbers in Florida show this was winnable,” Brett Doster, Florida advisor for Romney, said in a statement to The Miami Herald. “We thought based on our polling and range of organization [...]
TOP STORY – Team Obama Takes Out Right Wing Noise Machine, Rush, Sean, Laura, All Led by Karl Rove [Video]
TODAY AT noon, and then again at 3:00 p.m., after listening to right wing radio for 20 years, I get to tune in to finally hear what I wrote about in my book. The last gasp of a dying influence. It’s over, even if the medium lives on. But finally, at long last, new-media has [...]
Trending: The Most Popular Tweet In History
AFTER A historic election victory, planned and executed by the most effective political team ever assembled in American history, the reelected President blasted out the news to the world. ..and it just keeps reverberating. I’m a flaming liberal, as I told one Obama Team member on Twitter today. But my job now is to tell [...]
For Jill Stein Voters
THIS ONE is for you. You didn’t listen to the crassness of Chris Matthews, the Obamabots and hyper partisan insults, but just kept the faith and voted your conscience. That’s as American as it gets. Today’s apologies by Jill Stein supporters for delivering the election to Romney are really deafening — Matt Browner Hamlin (@mbrownerhamlin) [...]
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