Calling election stolen, Hoffman rescinds concession in New York
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 20th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
Calling election stolen, Hoffman rescinds concession in New York
For the second time this week, Conservative Party congressional candidate Douglas L. Hoffman sought to rescind his concession in the special election in New York’s 23rd district, telling supporters that new information showing the results of the election closer than believed on election night mad…
Peter Orszag: Bills offer clear path to better health care
The bills under discussion will put us on a path to a high-quality, low-cost system.
At House hearing, two sides debate U.S. ban on travel to Cuba
At a tempestuous hearing Thursday, one House member after another criticized a growing campaign to lift the ban on American tourists traveling to Cuba. The move would reward a regime that oppresses its own people, lawmakers declared, pointing to the recent assault on Yoani Sánchez, a Cuban blogge…
U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance…