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Guatemala mayor shot dead
Thaindian News —
Authority: 729
Guatemala City, Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) A mayor in Guatemala was shot dead while on his way to work Tuesday, the police said.Otto Rene Garcia, 39, was elected mayor of Siquinala town in southern Guatemala. He was a member of the main opposition right-wing Patriot Party.Media reports said Garcia was shot after he boarded his ...13 hours ago -
State Parties’ Chairs Respond to Griffith’s Switch
Doc's Political Parlor —
Authority: 140
The state Democrats released a statement today [.doc] which said, in part: “Parker has been a friend for a number of years, but his announcement today, and the way in which he did it, deeply disappoints me. Democrats of every stripe and philosophy sweated and bled for this man. He narrowly became a Congressman ...14 hours ago -
"Privileges" and "Rights," Bribes, and a bill that cant pass on its merits
The COFFEE SHOP —
Authority: 479
◼ Harkin dismissed deals dubbed vote-buying by GOP senators as "small stuff" that distracted Americans from the primary focus of the overhaul bill. "We have to keep our eyes on what were trying to do here. Were trying to cross a demarcation line," Harkin told "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "On one side ...18 hours ago -
Hysterical Iain Dale runs away when confronted with ‘facts’
Pickled Politics —
Authority: 502
Yesterday Tory blogger Iain Dale posted a blog-post titled ‘Oxford is Cool’ . Not long after, Unity posted an article on LibCon pointing out what a bunch of tripe the thinking and methodology behind that post was. Note, how Iain Dale then acted when others pointed this out. It’s worth noting, for a start, ...20 hours ago -
Tip ONeil Was Right...
RED STICK RANT —
Authority: 506
...All politics is local. Our long march begins at home. Read. It. All.1 day ago -
Breaking With the President
An American Lion —
Authority: 444
I don’t think Howard Dean and Russ Feingold should expect a Christmas Card from Rahm Emmanuel: The administration is to blame for the public option’s exclusion from healthcare legislation, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Monday. “Yes,” Dean flatly answered during an ...1 day ago -
Conservative Crocodile Tears About "Corporatism"
The New Republic - The Plank Feed —
Authority: 141
TNR published a piece I did the other day examining the ideological underpinnings of the left/center split in the Democratic Party over the propriety of a universal health care system based on regulated and subsidized private health insurers. I suggested there was a burgeoning, if questionably workable, tactical ...1 day ago -
America, the Ungovernable
Political Cartel —
Authority: 116
I’ve always tried to be understanding of the Republican cause. I’m left-of-center, but not far from the middle. I used to try to “understand” Republican positions; I don’t anymore. They’re out of their minds, and I don’t care to follow their mindless political ventures. Best just to forget ...1 day ago -
Tiger’s Syndrome
Regaining the Center —
Authority: 125
The swirl around Tiger Woods’ Thanksgiving evening automobile crash has been a tremendous shock to many people. Tiger was not real, he was the ideal. He represented sports greatness and a super clean personal reputation. He was what most well coiffed, expensive suited politicians appear to be. He appeared to be ...2 days ago -
Obama – pass the health bill (Update – yet another compromise)
Where's the Outrage? —
Authority: 430
Again on a Saturday there is an announcement of a deal. Sen. Ben Nelson seems to have the capitulation that he’s been asking for. Something smells rotten to me. In Pres. Obama’s weekly address, he asks for a vote. unfortunately, he used Republican terminology in asking for a “up or down vote.” I’m not sure ...3 days ago -
A Loss
Regaining the Center —
Authority: 125
It appears near certain that the public option or anything that puts pressure on insurance companies to reform through competition is dead in the health care reform bill Congress is currently debating. For the insurance industry, this was do or die. Any type of “best in class” heath care would mean an end to ...3 days ago -
News from the NHGOP
Press Releases —
Authority: 149
STOP JOHN LYNCHS INCOME TAX! Over 200 people turned out this week to protest Governor Lynchs job-killing LLC tax at a public hearing hosted by the Department of Revenue Administration. "John Lynch broke his pledge when he signed a budget that imposes this job-killing income tax on New Hampshire’s small business ...3 days ago -
The problem with ‘independent’ MPs
Pickled Politics —
Authority: 502
Ezra Klein has an excellent article at the Washington Post on what a hypocritical and mendacious Senator Joe Lieberman is, as he tries to gut healthcare reform. The administration have bent over backwards to accommodate the two ‘independent’ (meaning conservative) Democratic Senators – Nelson and Liberman – ...3 days ago -
Malacanang ‘Happy’ About Latest SWS Survey; Villar Seen As “Ideological Ally of GMA”
Filipino Voices —
Authority: 427
The spinmeisters and electoral planners of Malacanang are in a celebratory mood following the release of the latest Social Weather Stations’ dipstick on the ‘leading’ presidential hopefuls. The survey was commissioned by revered Puerto Princesa mayor Edward Hagedorn who is well-respected on either side of ...4 days ago -
Press Release – Councillor Training
Cllr. Martyn Findley (BNP) —
Authority: 126
This week I attended the latest in a line of training courses organised by the officers of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council for the elected council members. The course in question was a three hour session and the subject was ‘Fairness and Diversity’. This is a compulsory session for elected members and ...4 days ago -
Senate Health Care Bill, Democrat Party politics, Party first, 2008 DNC Convention Rules, Why Democrats push unwanted bill
Citizen Wells —
Authority: 558
I constantly hear people on TV and around me ask why Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Democrat controlled Congress keep pushing a bad Health Care Bill that most Americans are against. Many Americans believe that for modern day Democrat politicians it is party and party politics first and the hell with ...4 days ago -
Walkout in Lok Sabha against ‘undemocratic’ UPA
Thaindian News —
Authority: 729
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Left and Samajwadi Party, which provides outside support to the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), walked out of Lok Sabha Friday to protest the government’s “undemocratic” ways ofpassing “important and controversial bills”. ...5 days ago -
Lok Sabha adjourned over Telangana issue
Thaindian News —
Authority: 729
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned Friday after members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Congress clashed over the issue of separate statehood to Telangana.When Question Hour began, TDP MPs, supporting a united Andhra Pradesh, gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar’s podium. This was soon after ...5 days ago -
Immigration politics
Blog For Arizona —
Authority: 509
by David Safier Someone who knows more about state politics than I said Dem candidates in tough districts are being advised to talk tough about immigration, or their R opponents will use the issue as a bludgeon to beat them over the head and defeat them in November. That kind of advice makes me furious for two ...5 days ago -
Bexar Democrats Missing $200,000: Former Treasurer Suspected Of Taking Money
Stupidica —
Authority: 176
The Bexar County Democratic Party is missing $200,000. Carla Vela, outgoing party chairwoman, said at a hastily called press conference Wednesday that more than $200,000 of the partys money is missing from at least two accounts. Vela said that she first found out about the missing money on Monday afternoon, nearly ...5 days ago
