by Rev. Irene Monroe
Congressman Barney Frank has been for decades the iconic image of gay civil rights advocacy on Capitol Hill.
For many years he was the lone voice and only openly gay congressman.
And as a Massachusetts resident I was once proud to say, “Barney Frank has got my back.”
But as one of the most vocal [...]

by Robert Reich
Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America’s non-system of health care — private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical suppliers — have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at a lower cost than they do now.
Which is precisely why the public option has become such a lightening [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
The rhetoric of fear made its way into the election as still President Bush (for 111 more days) put on his serious face, stared into the camera and lied to bail out his Wall Street pals just like he did for his oil buds 6-years earlier. They need us to buy into this [...]

 
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]

(Reprise article)
Roger Clemens has not had a good 2008. Retired from baseball and named in both the Mitchell Report on Steroid Abuses and under investigation by the federal prosecutor U.S. attorney Matt Parrella for committing perjury by lying under oath in the trial of his former trainer and he countersuing that former trainer for defamation, [...]