Time to River-Wash the Big Three Auto Companies and the Economy

Lessons from Greek Mythology's Labors of Hercules have much to teach Obama as he faces some very real Herculean tasks.

To atone for a crime that was not his fault, Hercules was commanded by the Delphic Oracle to...

Please, president-elect Obama, keep your promise, starting with your cabinet and bring change to this nation, not re-cycling.

It's been a long time since Democrats have worked in the White House or have had cabinet positions. Maybe it makes some sense that to start things off, Obama would consider bringing...

I couldn't believe how many people told me I wasn't the only one waking up in the middle of the night last night, unable to sleep.

It's not that big of a stretch to speculate that all over the world, billions of people who were walking on eggshells worrying about...

An old friend sent me something like this, but clearly written mostly with a right wing slant. So I rewrote every one, deleted some and added some to better reflect a more liberal perspective. Feel free to copy and pass on. www.opednews.com

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Now that Alaska's senator Ted Stevens has been convicted on all seven counts, the question is, how do the senate Democrats exploit the opportunities it presents?

The most obvious first positive news is in Alaska. Mark Begich, Stevens' opponent in the Alaska senate race will be in much better position...

Transcript of Interview with CDR, USN, Phil Butler on the Rob Kall Bottom-up Radio Show (1360 AM WNJC)

Transcription by Jay Farrington and Paul Hawley

Kall: Great to have you with us here on the Rob Kall Show at...

I parked, walked to the front of one of my favorite local restaurants and there, in front of its sign, was a McCain Palin yard sign. What was I to do?

To make matters worse, the McCain/Palin yard sign was in front of a favorite Indian restaurant I'd invited a...

Joe Biden says that within six months of Obama being president, he will be tested with a manufactured international incident which he will need help with.

Listening to Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan and Mika Breszinski chatter about this, Biden made a horrible gaffe. They say he was feeding his ego,...

The world is hoping for an Obama win, but they may not realize just how ugly things will get on voting day and afterwards.

I was instant messaging this morning with our correspondent from Waziristan, Pakistan, Muhammad Khurshid . He's reported that local...

Joe the plumber talks like your average right wing libertarian. He doesn't want to pay his way.

Joe talks like corporate polluters have historically acted -- avoiding paying for the damage they've done by dumping or spewing.

Joe wants to have it easier than his father did -- to pay...

Paulson wields extraordinary power. We all need to think about what further uses it can or may be put to and consider its use and abuse and the Good and Evil We May Soon Face.

Today's Wall Street Journal reports how Henry Paulson summoned the heads of the top...

Palin's language, picked up by pundits, is another symptom of how the right is selling out.

Sarah Palin speaks like a high-school drop out, dropping the "Gs" from her ING's.

I think it's genuine, not affectation. But it is also something highly noticeable. It may actually be attractive to some...

Close to 100 million Americans either received mailers last week or will be receiving them next week. It is these mailers that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign.

It wasn't sent by Obama, nor by 527 group, not by any non-profit or even...

There is a new Czar in America -- the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program -- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Neel Kashkari.

Henry Paulson tapped the company he ran, Goldman Sachs, to hire 35 year old Kashkari, who started as a...

There are times, when, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. said, "the brain runs away with the heart's best blood." That will be Joe Biden's biggest problem. When it comes to where they aim their talk, Joe Biden is all head and Sarah Palin is all heart.

When it comes to...

It looks like the Republicans thought they'd use the bailout bill to sink the Dems, but the GOP leadership couldn't lead their own troops.

This video suggests a very, very cynical politicization of America's crisis.

Politico reports:

The Republican National Committee's new advertisement critical of the the...

This progressive says congress should take a fiscally conservative approach and only pass a bailout that pays for itself. Do it by making all the bailout beneficiaries pay. Even better, do it bottom up, but if that's not possible, at least do it so the bottom -- main street --...

As has become customary, the Democratic leaders of congress -- after making a lot of noise and protest -- are selling out Main Street, handing the real plums of the bailout to Republicans, giving George Bush and Henry Paulson what they wanted most.

Forget about the "unsupervised control" part of...

McCain comes riding and farting into Washington on his blind donkey, pressuring congress to rush things that are already being rushed too much so the debate will proceed. He politicizes negotiations, because if the house doesn't show that things were not settled, then McCain looks even more like an impulsive...

John McCain has said he's suspending his campaign and going to Washington to work on the economic plan to deal with the economic crisis.

He did something similar to this at the beginning of the Republican National Convention, when hurricane Gustav was approaching the Gulf Coast. It was...