RISING INSTABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN COULD SPUR EARLIER U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWS. (New York Times) ` In a plan strenuously opposed by the Pentagon, the New York Times reports that the Obama administration is considering what can only be described as a mild acceleration of their purported “timetable” to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Conflict with the [...]
Two years ago, the cataclysmic fire and spill at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico captured the nation’s attention, sullied the oil giant’s corporate reputation and brought the dangerous form of oil exploration the Gulf is known for to a halt. Today, the process to return BP and drilling operations in [...]
The two timeless engines of the lustful geopolitical exertions of western powers, oil and influence, have been raging with a new brutality as of late in the ongoing game of American and European dominance in global affairs. The combination of political pressure and the cost of filling up your average American — or British — [...]
Birth control as a hot button issue does not appear top be fading from the forefront of national debate in the near future, stoked by presidential politics and lawmakers eager to make their name in the defense of what some call “religous freedom,” and others deride as unconstitutional overreach. The so-called “culture wars” are storming back to [...]
IF SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA IS GOING TO PROVIDE ALL THE PUBLIC SERVICES, WHY DOES THE CITY OF SARASOTA EVEN NEED TO EXIST? (Sarasota Herald-Tribune) This is the “existential” question which some city officials in Sarasota are driven to ask. It comes as the city, with recession-driven deficits like never before, is considering budget-cutting measures like consolidating city and [...]
For all of the super-PAC money, the strategists, the pollsters, the “bundlers” and the armies of staffers and supporters that are being organized to influence this November’s presidential election, President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and a Republican Party desperate to defeat him are both blindly committing serious missteps that could end up costing them the [...]
OBAMA’S NEW TAX PLAN WOULD SLASH CORPORATE RATES BY UP TO 10 PERCENT. (New York Times) Seeking to beat potential Republican vials to the fore of the “tax debate,” President Obama on Wednesday announced sweeping proposals for overhauling the nation’s corporate tax code. Currently sitting at a listed rate of 35 percent, the White House [...]
At a pace much faster than anyone could have projected, the landscape of campaign finance in American politics has undergone a dramatic transformation to a point where deregulated outside groups hold a distinct advantage over individual campaign war chests. The monumental presidential contest of 2012 appears to be the dawn of the super-PAC age in [...]
From presidential politics to the halls of Congress to state legislatures across the nation, scores of lawmakers and politicians have made the curious decision to launch an assault on women’s rights. Despite an incumbent president vulnerable thanks to persistent economic worries and states faced with ills ranging from budget deficits to foreclosure crises, America’s current [...]
Already poised to blow out records for the most expensive campaign in American history, the financial stakes attached to the 2012 presidential election were raised to unprecedented levels by a monumental flip-flop from Barack Obama. Having long promised to raise as much as one billion dollars in direct donations to the campaign to win a [...]
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