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Reid calls for comprehensive economic recovery package

January 5, 2009 By Staff writers

Vowing to help President-elect Obama accomplish his goal of revitalizing the US economy, Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) discussed several key economic questions during his appearance on NBC's Meet the Press Jan. 4th.

‘We owe the American people a reckoning’: Eric Holder vs. Karl Rove

January 2, 2009

Karl Rove launched an effort last month to block Barack Obama's nomination of Eric Holder as Attorney General. As part of this campaign, Rove has raised memories of Holder's ill-conceived advice to Bill Clinton about his...

OPINION: End corruption – take corporate money out of politics

January 1, 2009

The brazen corruption of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is detestable. But some would ask - what's the big deal? Chicago is renowned the world over for corruption by machine politics, gangsters and moneyed interests. Corruption is...

Eartha Kitt, pioneer in art and protest

December 30, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died. She was 81. Family spokesman Andrew...

Playwright Harold Pinter, Iraq war critic, remembered

December 30, 2008

LONDON (AP) — British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, who produced some of his generation’s most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, has died. He was 78. Pinter died...