Tag: Politics

Unveiling a modified health reform bill on Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders appear to have cobbled together the 60 votes they’ll need to pass the most expansive overhaul to the nation’s health care system in generations. But winning that support comes at a steep cost.

Mike Lillis at the Washington Independent sends the following dispatch from the frontlines in the partisan war to extend benefits to the vast ranks...

With the nation’s insurers having dropped their support for the health reforms moving through Congress, Senate Democrats are taking daring steps to rally the backing of another powerful medical lobby: doctors.

Analysts who track natural gas prices and supplies say the industry is banking on a cold winter and an economic recovery to bolster a...

ST. LOUIS — Kitty Werthmann has made a career out of warning Americans that fascism is on its way. The 84-year-old native Austrian survived the Third Reich and, in her dotage as a leader of the South Dakota branch of the Eagle Forum, has recorded tapes and videos explaining just how Hitler took power. She made her case during George W. Bush’s presidency, but the audience was small–fringe conservative activists, radio hosts like Alex Jones. Then came President Obama. On Saturday, at the “How to Take Back America” conference here, Werthmann found herself speaking to an packed room of conservative activists about the parallels between the rise of Obama and the rise of Hitler.

** Updated** The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed the House by a wide margin in the spring. Debate included a rousing short speech...

Larry King Live carried this headline last night, "Obama pulling ahead." From the Politico, "Dem strategists see landslide in the making." Rothenberg, "For Republicans, Another Blood Bath Looms on Horizon." Nearly every poll tracking site, including FiveThirtyEight.com, Election '08, and 270toWin all predict a greater than 90% likelihood Obama will win the electoral college vote in November. I don't mean to jinx anything, but when I gaze into my crystal 8-ball and ask who will become our next President: "All signs point to Obama."

Read more of Jeff's commentaries: • October surprose gets less surprising • McCain hot foots it out of Michigan • Sign, sign everywhere a sign.

Backers of an initiative campaign hyping the values of "clean government" are funding their efforts with anonymous cash, and the mainstream media is starting to catch on.

Colorado may be a toss-up state in the presidential race, but it’s nowhere to be found on a list of the top-10 battlegrounds for control of state governments.

The Pitkin County (Aspen) commissioners have joined Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.) in a border war of words with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah,...