Getting a brief jump on his rivals, Sen. Alan Cranston of California launched a long-shot bid for the White House thirty years ago this week in the marble-columned Senate Caucus Room — the same place that George McGovern had announced his antiwar candidacy more than a […]
An investment in the Cayman Islands could spell trouble for Jack Lew, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, when he appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. At issue are Lew’s previous holdings — estimated to have been between $50,000 to $100,000 — in […]
Conservative activist Seth Grossman is seriously contemplating a challenge to popular New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the state’s June 4 Republican primary. It’s a daunting task. Grossman, an Atlantic City lawyer and radio talk show host, said that he will make his decision shortly. […]
Former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who is now working as a regular contributor on Fox News, is launching a short speaking tour, his office announced earlier today. The short speaking tour will take the 16-year House veteran and two-time presidential candidate to Santa Barbara and Oakland, […]
Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, the progressive firebrand and longest-serving independent member of Congress in American history, introduced legislation on Thursday to prevent U.S. corporations from sheltering income in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens. Every year, said Sanders, corporations and wealthy Americans are “avoiding more […]
If the donuts don’t get him, his Democratic opponent might. “Leaders lead and real leadership means hearing the voices of the other New Jersey,” declared State Senator Barbara Buono on Saturday in kicking off her long-shot bid to unseat popular Gov. Chris Christie. “The hardworking men and […]
Describing himself as “the most fiscally conservative and the most socially tolerant candidate in the race,” Daniel Fishman announced late Monday evening that he will seek former Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s seat in the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian candidate in the June 25 special […]
According to the New York Daily News, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who resigned from office nineteen months ago amid a widely-publicized sexting scandal, has reportedly commissioned a private poll to gauge support for a possible bid for mayor of New York. The anonymous poll […]
Twenty years before his death on this day in 1944, legendary newspaper editor William Allen White, a man who advised Presidents and rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s greatest statesmen in a career that spanned five decades, waged one of the most fascinating and […]
Kevin Akin, state chair of California’s ballot-qualified Peace and Freedom Party and chair of the national Peace and Freedom Alliance — the party’s national organizing committee working to take the party national in an effort to provide a left-wing alternative to the corporate-controlled Democratic Party […]
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