Health care reform received a major boost. A coalition of progressive health care reform advocates have decided to back a controversial way to move health care forward. Nearly one week after the Democrats lost the Massachusetts Senate seat, political realities hit home with Democrats. Shell-shocked Democratic lawmakers in Washington walked in a symbolic haze, unsure [...]
George Clooney soars as a vulnerable ax man in Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air,” a flim that captures the cultural zeitgeist with irony and tenderness.
Today, Foreign Ministers are meeting in Montreal to discuss Haiti’s outstanding $890 million international debt. The repayment of this debt burden would undermine any possibility of long term recovery for Haitians, which were already already affected by a food crisis before the earthquake that has left Haiti dependent on imports for almost 50 percent of [...]
Since the election of Scott Brown to take over the Senate seat of Teddy Kennedy, the tone has sharply changed in Washington; especially the rhetoric coming from the White House. President Obama is now using a more aggressive almost populist language such as denouncing the “fat cats” of Wall Street, and vehemently attacking the Supreme [...]
Liberal cable pit bull Keith Olbermann lost it last week, going over the top with his explosive criticisms against Republican Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown. “Daily Show” maestro Jon Stewart dished up a comic commentary that is spot-on and hilarious. On Friday’s “Countdown” Olbermann showed the segment and responded. Though he underplayed Stewart at first, giving [...]
