Cesar Chavez must be angrily rolling over in his grave over the latest immigration reform plan floated by the Bush Administration. And to make matters worse, the White House floats ... Read More

Lately, I'm addicted to MSNBC's Hardball, hosted by Chris Matthews. Hardball, for those who don't closely follow politics, is a top-rated weekday program devoted to poltical news and analysis. Matthews ... Read More

House passage last week of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, was a testament to the consummate political skills and wisdom of Speaker of the ... Read More

On March 15, 2007, Republicans introduced in both the Senate and House the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act (A-PLUS) , a measure designed to effectively gut the No ... Read More

Today, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina announced that he would continue his campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination for the presidency, despite recurrence of his wife's breast cancer. ... Read More

Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, Director of the National Institutes of Health, surprised a Senate subcommittee yesterday, March 19, when he unequivocally urged "an end to restrictions on federal funding for ... Read More

As the United States, under George Bush, enters its 5th year of occupation of Iraq... As 4 more U.S. Senators, including freshman Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ... Read More

In June 2005, ABC's Diane Sawyer interviewed film actor and One Campaign spokesman Brad Pitt as they toured rural Africa. While PrimeTime Live cameras whirred, Pitt showed Sawyer abject poverty, ... Read More

I don't usually write about the Republican candidates in the 2008 race for the White House, but a tidbit surfaced today that's too intriguing to bypass. Bloomberg.com is reporting today: ... Read More

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales represents the very worst of the Bush Administration, including all of the following which are promulgated or condoned by Gonzales' Justice Department: Wholehearted embrace of torture ... Read More

I just returned from a regional About.com meeting (San Diego weather was gorgeous!), and spent time with some great guides who write passionately about their topics. Here are a few ... Read More

It's official. Barack Obama is the cleanest Democrat in the 2008 presidential race, and I'm not referring to his bathing habits. I say this because headlines today breathlessly trumpet... Gasp!... ... Read More

Children are always negatively impacted when a public library closes or prunes its hours. The everyday lives of middle-class Americans, of senior citizens, of immigrants, are diminished without access to ... Read More

It would be easy today to be overwhelmed, even discouraged, by the darkness of Bush administration irresponsibility and arrogance that dominates the headlines: * The continued bloody downward-spiral of ... Read More

"... when Israel is attacked, we must stand up for Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself," declared Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on March 2, 2007 in a speech to the ... Read More

Chairing last weekend's annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) was its first female chair in the influential organization's 97-year history: Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona. Among ... Read More