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04 June 2008
Obama, Clinton and anger to burn
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Norman Solomon
In politics, as in so many other aspects of life, anger is a combustible fuel. Affirmed and titrated, it helps us move forward. Suppressed or self-indulged, it’s likely to blow up in our faces.

With the race for the 2008...
01 June 2008
Clinton only needs 153% of remaining delegates
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David Swanson
So, the Democratic National Committee has bent the rules for Senator Clinton and effectively given her 87 delegates and Senator Obama 63 from two states that were not supposed to be counted. That gives Clinton a grand total of 1,580...
01 June 2008
Gee that's a funny GI Bill
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David Swanson
Something called the "GI Bill" passed both houses of Congress with large majorities in recent weeks. It really would provide educational benefits to veterans, but it's not a bill. It's an amendment. It could be introduced as a bill, pass...
31 May 2008
The buried Florida story: why campaigning matters
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Paul Loeb
It makes sense for Florida to be sanctioned by the DNC. If the Democratic Party is going to win elections, you can't have states capriciously violating agreed-on rules.  But an equally critical reason to dock its delegates is that for a...
29 May 2008
Did the Limbaugh effect also flip Michigan?
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Paul Loeb
With Hillary Clinton rejecting the compromise that Michigan Democratic leaders just crafted, the Democratic Rules Committee has a dilemma. Clinton keeps demanding that Michigan's delegates be apportioned according to the January 15 vote,...
29 May 2008
The myth of Clinton's popular vote lead
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Paul Loeb
Given the disappointment of so many Hillary Clinton supporters that the woman they thought would be America's first female president will not be, the more they hear the suggestion that Sen. Barack Obama's win is illegitimate the more...

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