Archive for June, 2008
Senate delays vote on telecom immunity
It’s official: Thanks to overwhelming grassroots action, and the heroic efforts of Senators Dodd and Feingold, the Senate’s vote on whether to grant phone companies immunity from the law for assisting in the President’s illegal wiretapping program has been delayed until after July 4th Recess! This is an unexpected reprieve for civil liberties and the rule of law…
Dr. Dobson Has Just Handed Obama Victory
Senator Obama just took another giant step toward winning the presidency. Actually, someone who considers himself a sworn enemy of Senator Obama took the step for him. Dr. Dobson of the Focus On the Family radio program (and evangelical media empire) has aired a program in which he attacks Senator Obama, the Senator’s theology and his credentials as a Christian. With enemies like this Senator Obama doesn’t need friends. No, I’m not talking about Dobson energizing liberal Democrats. I’m talking about Dobson energizing his fellow evangelicals to vote for Senator Obama.
Serenity Lost: Obama And The Netroots
Only weeks into the general election campaign and already a notable tension is beginning to materialize within the Democratic Party. At question is Sen. Barack Obama’s relationship with the progressive netroots, the online community that helped aid the Senator’s rise to the presidential nomination, but has since seemingly played second fiddle in terms of courted constituencies.
Youth vs. Independents: Who will decide the election?
Laura Flanders at GRITtv grills election experts Bill Hillsman, founder of Independent Voters of America and author of Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time, and Morley Winograd, Al Gore’s Senior Policy Advisor and the co-author of Millennial Makeover: My Space, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics, [...]
Don’t blame speculators for high oil prices
A new study sheds light on the role speculation plays in the global oil market. There is no hard evidence that speculators are responsible for high oil prices. If the price of oil truly were above the level that the fundamentals could support, we would see growing inventories of crude. But inventory levels show no such pattern.
Obama’s global poverty tax on America
Senator Barack Obama, in a preview of priorities he might pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.
S.2433, the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation that “We can, and [...]
White House refuses to open e-mail
In 2007, the Supreme Court held that the Environmental Protection Agency is required to determine whether greenhouse gases represent a danger to health or the environment. Now the New York Times reports that the White House, unwilling to accept the EPA’s conclusions, has announced that the EPA’s e-mail message containing the document simply will not be opened.
No One Predicted This! Oh, Wait…
Thomas Woods at the Campaign for Liberty writes:
This has been all over the web already, but I can’t resist. A couple weeks ago, John McCain said: “You know the economists? They’re the same ones that didn’t predict this housing crisis we’re in. They’re the same ones that didn’t predict the dot-com meltdown. They’re [...]
McCain vs. McCain on Gitmo detainees
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not be detained indefinitely without charges and were entitled to ask a court for a hearing where the government would have to show why it was holding them, or that they be released.
Last week, McCain blasted the ruling, disingenuously calling it “one of the [...]
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