Articles filed under Politics
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Tough questions for Sen. McCainAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - A letter to Sen. McCain: Regarding your adviser's comments: Have 5-7 million people not lost their health insurance in the last 7-8 years? Did Starbucks not close 500 pl...
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Beyond politics, many blacks see personal hope in Obama campaignAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Playing with her 3-year-old granddaughter on a recent summer day, Monique Davis saw that a collection of magazines caught the young girl's eye. On a nearby table rested...
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Reports slanted on Obama's Ayers linkAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Sen. Obama's experience gained while a community organizer is stated as significant. If that is true, it was unfair to presume, as was done in your Aug. 26 Associated P...
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Seals obviously not a local candidateAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Since the 2006 Congressional elections, the 10th District has known that Dan Seals is not much of a homegrown candidate. After all, he still lives in the 9th District un...
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Seals associating with corruptionAug 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Dan Seals must immediately return all campaign contributions he has received from Congressman Charlie Rangel. The New York Times reported last week that Rangel rents fo...
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Reverence for the power of the spoken wordAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Our nation's first black major party nominee for president, Barack Obama of Illinois, raised the bar for himself four years ago when he delivered the speech that would s...
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Gore: McCain's policies too close to BushAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Al Gore told Democrats Thursday night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama re...
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Kirk pushing to end payments to IranAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - I am writing to call attention to an important issue that has not received nearly the attention it deserves. As the U.N. Security Council passes multiple resolutions san...
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Who will replace Obama in the Senate?Aug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - If Barack Obama wins the presidency, he may be the leader of the free world - but he won't have the power to pick his own U.S. Senate replacement. That plum assignment f...
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Women impress, and charm, at conventionAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - DENVER - The leading women of the Democratic Party have done their part. Michelle Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, slated as the featured speakers on the first two nigh...