It was with great dismay that I, and many of my fellow Iranians in Iran and abroad, learned of the regrettably widespread support by you in the U.S Congress, for the Resolution HR 362. This resolution which imposes a Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

Jonah Goldberg's regular column in the LA Times is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a poodle would never be so pompous.

Pledging to implement policies that will boost the economy and protect the right of workers to join unions, Barack Obama spoke with thousands of labor activists by teleconference July 31.

Public pressure on the Iraqi government to disassociate itself from the Bush administration and insist on a timetable for withdrawal is growing in Iraq.

Union members protest the decision by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of over two hundred thousand state workers to the Federal minimum wage of $6.55/hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.

There have been many policy missteps over the last twenty some years, and this has amounted to a mismanagement of the U.S. economy. The result has been an unhealthy mixture of greed, shortsightedness and market manipulation.