How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there has always been critical. On November 7th, only the American voter has the power to decide: whether to reward failure or to gracefully search for a way out.

What if there were Republicans in Congress who supported forced abortions and prostitution and slave labor? And what if there were progressive Democrats running against them. Meet Republican Congress Members John Doolittle and Richard Pombo and their challengers in California's 4th and 11th districts Charlie Brown and Jerry McNerney.

About 100 people gathered earlier this week at Soho, a gay bar in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, to express their opposition to Proposal 2, a measure that would ban affirmative action programs in the state of Michigan.

As is well known, Bosnia and Herzegovina have passed through civil war and an explosion of nationalism, which has caused not only the devastation of economic resources, but also the division of the working class along ethnic lines.

A frequent theme in conservative rhetoric is the barbarism of Islamist terror groups. The National Review’s Deroy Murdock recited a litany of stabbings, mutilations, and decapitations, titling his essay after a quote by an Al Qaeda member: "The Americans love Pepsi-cola, we love death.”

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a peaceful and diplomatic solution by nonmilitary measures based on Article 41 of Chapter Seven of the U.N. Charter.

Bunnatine Greenhouse sits in a cubicle in a far corner of an office in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., where, she says, “I am treated like a non-person.”

HUZZAH! The old folks are getting a raise in their monthly pittance next year. We are to be eternally grateful that we are allowed to be blessed by the trickle-down that has finally reached us, Compassionate Conservatism at its best. With this Cost Of Living Allowance, their lives will be so much easier.

White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections. The polls point decisively to a Democratic majority in the House, and possibly in the Senate.

Without doubt, the "second wave" of socialism — the socialism of the 21st Century — will distinguish itself from the "first wave" of socialist construction during the last century insofar as the revolutionary forces today have the benefit of analysing and learning from those previous experiences — both their achievements and their failures and distortions — and in this sense we can confidently predict that the "new socialism" will be better, stronger, and more enduring than the previous wave of socialist construction.

Yesterday, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to the same state benefits, protections, and obligations as different-sex couples. The court split, however, on how to remedy current state law.

My blood is boiling after watching Bush's news conference. It's not enough that he and his republican party came in to office together and wiped our our nation's budget surplus by diverting the majority of Americans' contributions to our government to tax breaks for his fellow wealthy class, and to his invasions and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Jane Wyatt died a few days ago at the age of 96. The obituaries dealt with her Hollywood and television career, particularly her role in the 1950s as Margaret Anderson in the quintessential television sitcom celebrating middle class family life, "Father Knows Best."

Four months after U.S. forces rolled into Baghdad, President George Bush declared his goal would be nothing less than to convert Iraq’s infrastructure into “the best in the region” ---yet U.S. contractors today are readying to depart the country leaving that goal unattained.

Most homes are not lacking in ways they can be healthier for family and kinder to the environment. For one, indoor air quality is a serious problem affecting millions of homes. Studies show that air within homes can be more seriously polluted than the air outdoors--even in the largest and most industrialized cities. 

As incredible as it might seem, the Bush Administration appears to be actively planning a military strike against Iran - the beginning of a war which could dwarf even the Iraq war in its grim potential for devastating global conflict.

Finally, the time has come, and Healthcare-NOW has been front and center – refusing to accept the “general wisdom” that  we just couldn’t do it --insisting for the past three years that we should not wait to build this movement until there was a positive government -- free of the private profiteers. 

With polling data indicating that voters are increasingly discontented about the aimlessness, human and financial cost, and endlessness of the war, Republicans have become paranoid about their chances of holding onto power in Congress.

The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him.

Since his days as a Georgia State Senator, Governor Sonny Perdue has an established record of corruption and contempt for the law.