Carl Pope: Can the Senate Save Itself?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 4th, 2010 5:46 am by HL
Carl Pope: Can the Senate Save Itself?
A serious conversation has begun about making it possible for the Senate to function as our Constitution envisaged — as a part of a balanced…
Phil Trounstine: In CA, It Wasn’t the Economy, Stupid, It Was Character
By Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts www.calbuzz.com In their last pre-election survey, Oct. 10-17, the Public Policy Institute of California found that six in 10…
Martha Burk: Republican “Principles” Busting Out all Over
I’ve been agonizing for some time over how as a country we’ve catapulted so far beyond George Orwell’s 1984, which taught us that rhetoric could…
Brandon Shaffer: Women in the State Senate
The hot political debate when I was in the Navy was whether or not women sailors should be allowed on combatant vessels. I was stationed…
William Astore: WikiLeaks and Our Boorish, “In your face” Diplomacy
While the mainstream media focuses on whether Julian Assange is a sex criminal in charge of a terrorist organization, I got a rude reminder of…