The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Open Internet Order establish "net neutrality" rules requiring that broadband providers disclose how they manage their networks while prohibiting them from
This has been a disappointing year for President Obama and the Democrats. One would think that a year that featured a medley of Republican self-inflicted wounds culminating in the pointless
Tom Hayden, who is now the Carey McWilliams fellow at The Nation, has weighed in on one of California’s hottest Assembly races just before the June 5 primary.
The 112th Congress, in which Tea Party members will be among the one in four members of Congress who are newly elected, will make for great political theater with sound bytes being broadcast, tweeted and repeated throughout the next two years.
Once upon a time there was a king who promised to create 5.5 million new jobs by cutting taxes for the rich. Years passed and then Prince Boehner appeared in the Forest City and said that renewal of the tax cuts was required to have “real economic growth.
Sarah Palin’s recent comments that the United States is a “Christian nation” along with her assumption of the role of arbiter of who is a “real American” suggests that she may have spent a little too much time on her porch in Alaska staring at Russia and needs to be reacquainted with the lower 48.
As Washington is paralyzed by the “snowpocalypse” and another storm coming, images of the city’s majestic monuments in a sea of white snow bring back fond memories of my years there.
If you traveled through the blogosphere this year, you would think that the country has three presidents — a foreign born socialist dictator; a tool of “business class rule and militarism” and Barack Obama who, despite the slurs being hurled on the right and left, is doing a pretty good job.
In his “Meet the Press” appearance earlier this week, former President Clinton indicated that the “vast right wing conspiracy” was alive and well under President Obama.
On the night Martin Luther King was shot, Robert Kennedy calmed an Indianapolis crowd by quoting from the Chorus in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace
In “The Art of War,” Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu states that “the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” Watching Congressional Republicans’ response to President Obama to date, I am left to wonder “when did the GOP become so generous?” I image at the initial GOP strat
California has fallen and it can’t get up. This is a dangerous prospect for the nation’s fragile economic recovery since California represents 13 percent of the economy.
