Satellite-Surveillance Program to Begin Despite Privacy Concerns

What's wrong with having "assurance that NAO operations will comply with applicable laws and privacy and civil liberties standards"? If our public servants have nothing to hide, they shouldn't mind the People and the law maintaining oversight."WASHINGTON -- The Department of...

Vets Give Report Cards to Senators McCain and Obama

At their website, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) states it: .... is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the...

Obama Supporter mixes up Biden and McCain

Florida resident, Jim Piccillo, mixed up Joe Biden and John McCain while introducing the Vice Presidential candidate at a Tampa, Florida rally. Piccollo had been invited to do the introduction after he had crossed...

Obama to Indiana Voters-"We Will Not Be Hoodwinked! We Will Not Be Bamboozled!"

Senator Barack Obama incited an Indianapolis crowd of over 20,000 this afternoon reiterating his message of change and promise to the middle class and under privileged.  His speech was not unlike many of the...

Why Should People of Color vote Republican

By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com, Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc In this election 9 out of 10 Blacks Nation wide will vote for Obama  I wonder what MLK (a Republican) would say?  Many Whites are voting for Obama but Blacks continue to Vote along race...

Reflections on an Election [Ballot Access and Wall Street Contributions]

On the night of October 7, 2008; the whole world will be watching the second Presidential Debates between John Mc Cain and Barack Obama. The debate will be live from Nashville, Tennessee and I could care less. The...

'Stealing Ohio's Election', Nonpartisan registers encourage Obama Votes

"To the people of the great state of Ohio, welcome to day five of "they're stealing your election." As you might have heard, the Ohio Democrat secretary of state decided to bend the law and allow a...

Who could have ever seen this financial mess coming? By Tom Tomorrow (Politi...

In 6 quick panels, Tom Tomorrow sums up the corporate criminal logic behind the bailout:" Wall Street Pig 1: "We're too big to fail, suckers!" Wall Street Pig 2: "If we go down, we're taking the rest of you down with us!""

VP Debate: Fact check for Biden & Palin

"WASHINGTON - Facts went adrift on taxes, deregulation and more Thursday when Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed in the vice presidential debate. Some examples: PALIN: Said of Democratic...

There’s more than one election in November

"With all of the hype over the presidential election (I’m as guilty as anyone), I think that a lot of people forget about all of the other elections that are going on.  Most people that go into the booth only make a decision about the president and either vote by party...

The simultaneous rejection of the bailout and a corrupt ruling class by Glenn...

Glenn Greenwald comments on the bailout vote failure in Congress; the Establishment politicians among the Democrats and Republicans did their best to push through a $700 billion dollar government intervention into the "free market" to benefit immoral and corrupt globalist...

95 Democrats Help To Keep USA Non-Socialist

Of the 228 Nay votes (with 205 Yea) to end the passage of the $700 Billion Financial Market Intervention Plan, 95 were Democrats that went against their party leadership and Nancy Pelosi. It is a good...

Forget Red or Blue State: Are You Wireless or Wireline?

A recent study conducted and released from the politically nonpartisan Pew Research Center confirmed the growing trend of people jettisoning their landlines and opting for a Cell-Only phone communication...

Far-right gains in Austria vote

The far-right in Austria has received 29 percent of the vote in Austria's early election. Thc growing sucess of the far right in Austria mirrors similiar gains by far right parties in other European countries such...

Obama, McCain, Kissinger: American Realpolitiks

I love Zoe Strauss. Here is a post she just did about an exchange between Obama and McCain about Kissinger. The post then goes on to provide links and information about the controversial career of Kissinger..."war criminal". Go Zoe! "During the presidential debate Obama and...

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