By Denis Campbell
NBA bad boy owner Mark Cuban, in trouble for a stupid insider stock trade charge, chided Obama for not putting a single entrepreneur on his economic team and 60’s rocker guitarist Neil Young lectured Detroit’s automakers on survival (fire management/start over). Like the kid looking for a pony in a room full of [...]

You may notice changes here over the next few weeks.
We’re migrating back from US election coverage to our broader series of articles and the biggest change is our name. We are about to enter into a content sharing agreement with our good friends at LA Progressive and Charley James, aka The Progressive Curmudgeon, aka the reincarnation of Hunter [...]

New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Thomas L. Friedman
So, I was speaking to an Iranian friend about what a mind-bending thing it must be for people in the Middle East to see Americans, seven years after 9/11, electing someone named Barack Hussein Obama as president. America is surely the only nation that could — in the [...]

(Having twice worked on or near K Street, it could not happen to a nicer bunch of people. -Ed.)
By: Jeanne Cummings, Politico Magazine
Congressional Republicans aren’t the only ones bracing for big Election Night losses. Their partisan brethren in the business trade associations and corporate offices are, too. 
Almost all of those high-paying jobs are held by [...]

Republican Convention McCain Delegate Declares for Obama!
Fred Bramante, a member of McCain’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee and a 2008 Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention today announced his support for Senator Obama’s Campaign for Change.
Bramante, a Co-Chair of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a past Chairman and current [...]

by Charley James
I suppose when the Republican vice presidential candidate is discovered spending $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe, it’s hard for the GOP to remember being shocked – Shocked, I tell you! – over John Edwards’ $400 haircut.
It’s even harder to be publicly outraged over the price of haircuts when the party can’t really figure [...]

by Denis Campbell
I love The Daily Kos. Yeah, they blew it on the Palin granddaughter as her baby thing, but it is a place of great political wit and writing. My favourite debate post-game read was from there this morning…
The business of focus groups is serious, as are the people who prepare the 527 group attack [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
Wall Street is about to open but the market carnage has begun in Asia and Europe where the major stock indexes are significantly down in reaction to the weekend US bailout.
At 14:30 UK time the markets were all down significantly. Meaning any hope McCain has of focusing debate on Obama’s character beyond a [...]

(This article is reproduced with the permission of Future Publishing Ltd and is as originally appeared in World Poker Tour Magazine Issue number 34, September, 2008… on newstands now.) It also is a walk down memory lane and lets everyone see how badly I missed the Palin selection, but then so did everyone else.
During August, [...]

(This article originally appeared on the website www.planetlightworker.com) 
by Dorret Groot Wassink
What legacy will we leave for the next generation?
In 40-years our oil supply runs dry and we have about 70-years of natural gas remaining if we consume it at the current rate. Our earth’s oxygen supply is in danger as rainforests disappear. At the current [...]