By Richard Winger The Sacramento Bee’s “Capitol Alert” has this medium-length story about Cindy Sheehan’s plans to run for Governor of California in 2014. She has already been endorsed by …
By Richard Winger With only 5% of Detroit precincts counted, there are more write-in votes for Mayor than for any particular ballot-listed candidate. See this story. …read more Source: Ballot …
Over the weekend, the US closed embassies in 22 countries due to an alleged threat by senior Al-Qaeda operatives, which the Obama administration refuses to specifically cite. When no attack …
I’m a long time fan Bill Hicks. He’s a comedian easily on par with George Carlin. I first learned about Hicks from the Tool album Ænima, which was dedicated to him. …
By Jason Ditz In a message released today by their leader Mullah Omar, the Taliban has announced that they don’t intend to field candidates or take part in the 2014 …
By Jason Ditz The nationalization of airport security in the US in 2001 has become increasingly controversial amid the heavy-handed tactics of the TSA, but even as the agency is …
By Jason Ditz After President Hamid Karzai publicly withdrew from peace talks with the Taliban, there was a brief effort to “coax” him back to the table, but after that …
By Jason Ditz The de facto autonomous northeast of Somalia, Puntland has long been a region of relative stability, mostly avoiding the worst of the Ethiopian and African Union invasions …
By Richard Winger According to this story, the President of the North Carolina NAACP, William Barber, is hoping to talk to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to ask him to …
By Richard Winger On August 4, St. Pete Polls released a Florida 2014 poll, including a poll on the gubernatorial race. The poll assumed that Rick Scott, the incumbent Republican …
