Why does the religious right fight so hard to get the ten commandments into our schools, courthouses and other public venues? Probably because they want these things as far away from their personal life as possible. Rightwing Christians are constant …
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"I don't see American politcs as a left-right game. I think that in fact when we continue to see it as a left-right game we are having a much harder time laying out the choices for the American people.
Making Americans angry, pretending they’re political outsiders, fanning race-based fears, attacking liberals and unions, and casting Obama as a "failed" and "illegitimate" president will be cornerstones of the Republican road to retake the White House, according to an ana …
WASHINGTON— Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring they disclose stock transactions within 30 days. A procedural vote Mond …
The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message.
"All of a sudden a man came up to me and called me a shikse [a derogatory term for a non-Jewish woman] and a slut," she said, and told her to leave. Mashiah said she then called the police, who told her to remain there until a police cruiser came, she recounted.
An Afghan man killed his wife for giving birth to a third daughter rather than the son he hoped for, police in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province said on Monday.The victim, 28, known by the one name of Storai, was strangled by her husband -- a local militia member -- and hi …
Newt Gingrich stepped out of church Sunday morning and launched some of his most vitriolic attacks on Mitt Romney to date in the Republican primary, seeking to recover lost ground in the polls two days before primary voting ends here on Tuesday. "I believe the Re …
Just 15 months after taking a thumping in the 2010 midterm elections, House Democrats have seized on the current anti-Washington fervor and are confident they can win the 25 seats they need to regain control of the House. Vice President Joe Biden made a bold prediction on Friday …
...Back when he was a young, impressionable college student at Stanford, he was a Vietnam war protester. Oh, he didn't protest against the war; he protested against the anti-war protesters:
Centervine has not initiated any private discussions.