by Charley James
Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, for [...]

by Robert Reich
Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is “not the essential element” of health-care reform. So where, exactly, is the White House on the public [...]

As we head into the weekend, here is the straight skinny on healthcare report from the White House and David Axelrod.
8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage

Ends Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history.
Ends Exorbitant Out-of-Pocket [...]

Rev. Irene Monroe
The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office.
The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars.
But with a 74 percent disapproval rating the President now has with [...]

… and How Hard the White House Pushes for Them
by Robert Reich
In an interesting piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Matt Bai suggests that the White House has learned the main lesson of Bill Clinton’s failed attempt at universal health care, which is not to deliver a finished product to Congress but instead give [...]

 
President Obama is being blamed for causing then disrupting the USA far right Tea Party taxation protests (sponsored by Lipton, the only true winner today?). The protests harkened back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and appear to be massive duds thudding their way across the country. What was most funny were the fringe [...]

 
On State Secrets And Illegal Wiretaps
by Charley James
After thinking about Attorney General Eric Holder’s unfathomable court filing defending the Bush-wacked “states secret” defence and a claim of “sovereign immunity” in lawsuits involving illegal wiretapping, I sent this e-mail to The White House. 

TO:                President Barack Obama
FROM:           Charley James
DATE:            April 8, [...]

 
Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a well-received address before the US Congress this past week. It was interrupted several times by applause as he spoke of the “special relationship” between the USA and UK. That’s generally the US view of the trip. In the alternate media universe of the UK, focused on the slight of [...]

by Ron Suskind
From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation’s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to [...]

By Denis Campbell
No one chooses their middle name, it’s bestowed by (hopefully sober at the time) parents. The only time anyone even hears it spoken aloud is to the guffaws of fellow classmates during high school graduation. History is working against Barack Hussein Obama and creating an off-the-silly-meter story.
There is no requirement he say ‘it.’ [...]