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  • Thank you, Senator McConnell

    Thank you, Senator McConnell

    July 27, 2007

    During the House and Senate debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, some of my friends got riled up by all the right-wing nuts attacking the EFCA because the Communists support it. I got a lot...

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  • EDITORIAL: Whats needed for Israeli-Palestinian peace?

    EDITORIAL: Whats needed for Israeli-Palestinian peace?

    July 27, 2007

    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Jerusalem last week in his new role as envoy for the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators — the UN, European Union, Russia and the United States. He...

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  • EDITORIAL: Out of Iraq … when?

    EDITORIAL: Out of Iraq … when?

    July 27, 2007

    A classified plan leaked in The New York Times July 23 reveals that the Pentagon plans to keep troops in Iraq at least two more years, despite the mounting nationwide and worldwide clamor that the U.S....

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  • Cuba survives and inspires

    Cuba survives and inspires

    July 27, 2007

    Forty-five years ago, Bob Dylan described revolutionary Cuba as “a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it.” Some things don’t change. As recently as July 2006, the United States announced it would not “allow” a...

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  • Auto CEOs drool over Delphis takeaways

    Auto CEOs drool over Delphis takeaways

    July 27, 2007

    DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union battled to get a new contract with Delphi and is now beginning tough negotiations with the Big Three automakers, Ford, GM and Chrysler. The Delphi contract includes the closure...

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