Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Rosemary and Walter Brasch
It was Monday evening and the phone rang—again. It was probably the fifth time in two hours. A pleasant voice said she was from the—oh that really doesn’t make any difference. Both presidential candidates have volunteer minions on the phones and Internet day after day, month after month, for what seems [...]
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Filed under: Consumers, Economy, George W. Bush, Wall Street, Walter Brasch
Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton was on the stump in Fresno, California on Monday, keeping out of harms way from the SoCal fires, raging out of control. The Fresno Bee reports:
Thousands of people outside Fresno High School listened and cheered this morning as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton capped a campaign rally with her favorite themes: affordable health [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Hart Williams
I remember reading the Confederate Yankee’s Sept. 10 post about New York Times ad rates, and thinking, this whole thing is just a crazy kind of oblique attack on MoveOn. But, I thought, it really isn’t worth writing about. Crazy stuff gets said on these rightie blogs all the time.
Well, I was wrong. How could [...]
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Filed under: Breaking News, Iraq
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
Yesterday’s troika of SCOTUS rulings (as Hart wrote about below), mostly centering on issues of speech and the first amendment, seem to have come down mainly in favor of speech by the wealthy. In other words, if you’re “average”, poor or disenfranchised, your speech doesn’t count (once again, Jeannie Shawl at Jurist has a great [...]
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Filed under: Politics, Supreme Court
