Who’s to blame for the Gulf oil gusher?

Grist break it down

Lord knows there’s a lot of blame to go around for the ongoing disaster in the gulf. In the weeks since the Horizon rig first came unglued, all the principals in this mess have taken turns pointing fingers at one another. Read more

Thousands March in S.F. Against SB1070

On Saturday, 5,000-8,000 marchers took to the streets of San Francisco to protest Arizona’s SB 1070 and to call on the current federal administration to push for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Amid the marchers were various union locals; LGBT organizations; faith leaders; and of course, tons of immigrant families, marching symbolically in white, pushed their strollers for over two miles on one of the city’s hottest days. Read more

‘Mean spirited, vicious racism’ comes to surface during debates about president and U.S. politics

When will bitter protests, hateful speech and political upheaval end?

Since President Barack Obama signed the landmark health reform bill, the split between Americans, extreme right wing opponents and supporters of the legislation and ideologues, has widened, but many say this division is rooted in racial hatred, rather than health reform. Read more

Democrats Never Had Sixty Votes

Democrats Never Had Sixty Votes; Sixty Votes Never Mattered

One year ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated President – and the U.S. Senate had 58 Democrats. We didn’t have 60 votes, but nobody said that health care was doomed. Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts now means that Democrats have a 59-41 majority – or a net gain of one seat from last year. But judging by the media coverage, it Read more

From Bay State to Red State?

Can health care reform survive a Republican Senate win in Massachusetts?

Will there be joy in Beantown if Mighty Coakley strikes out? Or, having been born on third base (thanks to the Kennedy clan), will she be able to steal home?

We’re talking about Martha Coakley, the attorney general of Massachusetts and one-time shoo-in to inherit Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat and, most assumed, to seal the deal on Read more

The unspeakable truth is that we lost in Iraq. We must not lose in Afghanistan too

Britain has fought more wars than any other country, but rarely has it suffered two defeats in a row. That humiliation is what this country is currently drifting towards, following failure in Iraq with failure in Afghanistan…Westminster might be obsessing over the Iraq inquiry’s revelations about how the decision to go to war was made, but the really important part of the inquiry’s work will come when it turns its attention to what happened after the invasion. Read more

The Best Allies Money Can Buy

In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher. When we arrived at the council, after a long walk, I showed my ID to two young uniformed U.S. soldiers. They told me to wait, went inside and out came a man wearing civilian clothes, one of those fishing vests and an Read more

Clinton Emerges as Key Link to Afghan Leader

From: The New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — It is far from clear that President Obama can depend on President Hamid Karzai to bring order to this violent country, but it is becoming clear that he will depend on Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his go-between in dealing with the mercurial Afghan leader. Read more

Oprah Bets on Her Future With Cable

From New York Times.com

Oprah Winfrey is giving network television one of her trademark aha moments.

Ms. Winfrey, the billionaire queen of daytime television, is planning to announce on Friday that she will step down from her daily pulpit, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in two years in order to concentrate on the forthcoming cable channel that will bear her name. Read more

Exclusive Interview–Obama ‘Never 100 Percent Certain’

From U.S.News & World Report Website

President Obama on how he makes tough calls on Afghanistan, healthcare, the economy, and more

President Obama had just received his morning briefings on national security and the economy and was about to confer with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen about the war in Afghanistan. In between, he sat down with U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh to discuss one of the most important and fascinating Read more

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