Calif. Republican faces sharp challenge
California's 3rd congressional district is emerging as one place where an incumbent Republican is on shaky ground in the Nov. 2 midterm elections.
Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estate and the horses he keeps for his daughter.
In tea party town would fire fighters watch as houses burn?
Last week the nation saw a preview of life in an America as envisioned by ultra-right tea party types - a country where everything will be "privatized," more frightening than anything the cinema has to offer.
Republican candidates "pledge" open warfare on working families
Republican Party Senate candidates pledged this past week to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.
Town meeting hails health reform gains, cites struggles ahead
PHILADELPHIA - The spirited crowd that filled the First Unitarian Church here to hear about the new health reform law came with mixed emotions.
Cuba caravans cover 130 cities
When all the world has free and open relations with revolutionary Cuba, and when we can all go back and forth freely, we'll owe a debt to the Pastors for Peace "caravanistas" who, every year, defy reactionary U.S. travel laws to bring gifts to the Cuban people.
Single-payer health care in health care overhaul law?
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Is single-payer government-run health care - a key cause for 21 international unions and 500 other labor organizations and a bugaboo for the health insurers and the Radical Right - in the massive health care overhaul Congress approved on party-line votes and President Barack Obama signed?
Fox News airs extremist views
FoxNews.com reported on the dubious findings of a discredited report published by the extremist anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
Senators call for regulating Facebook privacy policies
Democratic senators during a press conference Tuesday expressed concern that the popular social networking site Facebook is not being careful when it comes to protecting the privacy of its users.
Chicagoans throw cold water on privatization plan
CHICAGO - Rumors that a plan to privatize this city's drinking water is in the pipeline have residents alarmed.
