The Senate, Snowe and Dinkytownby Gail Collins in The New York Times, 12-6-08 This week Senator Saxby Chambliss won a runoff vote in Georgia. It’s possible you missed this. Perhaps you were busy — oh, I don’t know, maybe contemplating the unemployment rate or learning to darn holes...

by Michael Moore on CommonDreams.org, 12-3-08 Friends, I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of whom have had to desert their...

by Robert Parry on commondreams.org 12-2-08 In what's been called George W. Bush's first exit interview, the outgoing President continues a lie that he first unveiled several months after launching the Iraq War, justifying the invasion by claiming that Saddam Hussein didn't let the U.N....

Republicans Want Palin in 2012 By Steven Reynolds via Alternet.org The latest Gallup poll of Republicans and self-identified Republican "leaners" is out. They asked the respondents who they wanted to run for President in 2012. Sarah Palin was the runaway winner. Here it is from Tampa Bay...

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig via alternet.org, 11-29-08 So, Vladimir Putin was right: It was Georgia that started the war with Russia, and once again it was President Bush who got caught in a lie. As the New York Times reported last week, "Newly available accounts by independent military...

A Command of the Lawby Roger Cohen in The New York Times, 11-27-08 It’s Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for many things right now, despite the stock market, and first among them is the fact that the next U.S. commander in chief is a constitutional law expert and former law...

Sin Citi by Gary Weiss, Portfolio.com, Nov 24 2008 Citigroup's failings demand more than a bailout—the public should see punishment for all involved. Citigroup is being bailed out as I write these words. Now, let's be clear: This is a good thing. But it...

by John Nichols in The Nation, 11-25-08 This is the part of our nation's surreal economic crisis that seems particularly surreal: The US auto industry, which employs 3 million Americans in auto plants, parts and supplier networks and dealerships nationwide is broadly understood as being...

Past and Future by William Greider in The Nation, 11-24-08 A year ago, when Barack Obama said it was time to turn the page, his campaign declaration seemed to promise a fresh start for Washington. I, for one, failed to foresee Obama would turn the page backward. The president-elect's lineup...

A Response to the Extreme Anti-Gay Comments by My Brother, New Gingrich By Candace Gingrich, Human Rights Campaignalternet.org, 11-24-08  Note: This letter to Newt Gingrich from his sister is prompted by his outrageous statement on Nov. 14 to Fox...

Time for Him to Go by Gail Collins in The New York Times, 11-22-08 Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to...

November 17, 2008by Jim Hightower Maybe you – like most of the media and most Congress Critters – think that the Bushites’ bailout of their pals on Wall Street is limited to the sum that Congress approved: $700 billion. If only. That’s a pretty big wad in itself, but...

By John Nichols, The Nation via alternet.org, 11-20-08 Quick! Name the veteran Department of Justice insider who, shortly after the USA Patriot Act was signed into law as the Bush administration was proposing to further erode barriers to governmental abuses, said that dissenters should not be...

by Ian Williams in The Guardian via CommonDreams.org, 11-19-08  As George Bush shuffles off to a long absence that is not only with leave but with a heartfelt global sentiment that it is long overdue, he leaves behind a lot of unfinished business. One wonders whether, just in case,...

Hoover's inaction in the face of the mounting crisis has made him an enduring symbol of economic mismanagement, but as bad he was, his neglect was nowhere near that of his secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon. Faced with a financial crisis even greater in scale than our current troubles,...

from Paul Krugman ...To pull us out of this downward spiral, the federal government will have to provide economic stimulus in the form of higher spending and greater aid to those in distress — and the stimulus plan won’t come soon enough or be strong enough unless politicians and...

Goodbye and Good Riddance by Paul Waldman, prospect.org via OurFuture.org, 11-14-08 ... [I]n just a few weeks, George W. Bush will no longer be our president. Let me repeat that: In just a few weeks, George W. Bush will no longer be our president. So though our long national ordeal isn't...

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com via alternet.org, 11-13-08 On the day that Americans turned out in near record numbers to vote, a record was set halfway around the world. In Afghanistan, a U.S. Air Force strike wiped out about 40 people in a wedding party. This represented at least the...

Obama Transition Team Rejects Lobbyists: Why It Matters by Steven Rosenfeld , AlterNet, November 11, 2008. The Obama Transition Team has issued rules for lobbyists who want to advise the incoming administration. The rules seek to stop Washington's revolving-door culture...

Beyond the Fat Cats by Bob Herbert in The New York Times, 11-11-08 The most important thing the Democrats and President-elect Obama can do with regard to the economy is bring back a sense of fairness and equity. The fat cats who placed the entire economy at risk with their greed and...