In a statment released this week, National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy called on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to remain at her post.

Throw a few indictments at the ruling party and watch how quickly things change. This week has seen important back-pedaling by the Republican Party and the Bush administration.On Tuesday, Congress cut funding for new nuclear weapons, the so-called bunker-buster, from the federal budget

Ed Roybal, first 20th Century Mexican American elected to the Los Angeles City Council (1949-1963) and to the House of Representatives (1963-1992) was a progressive Latino politician long before there was something called a Chicano movement.

“I hate the way they portray us in the media,” said hip-hop star Kanye West on a NBC fundraising telethon for the Red Cross relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina. “You see a black family, it says, ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says, ‘They’re looking for food.’”

More tales of Republican Party corruption, abuse of veterans, an anti-working class agenda, and plain craziness.

On October 12, 2005, the New York Times ran an article on page A18 with this headline: Air Force Withdrew Rule That Permitted Some Evangelizing. On October 13, 2005, the Ashland, Wisconsin Daily Press ran an article that describes the evangelical credentials of the latest George w. Bush nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court, Harriet Miers.

Two percent. That's the percentage of U.S. blacks who approve of President Bush's job performance, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found...No amount of Rove's strategic and tactical skill can counter the televised imagery of modern-day savagery after Katrina. He and the neo-cons can only hope for a miracle to counter what the world has seen in the hurricane region.

Iraqis voters overwhelmingly favor troop withdrawal from their country. New report shows the Iraq war costs US taxpayers almost $6 billion per month. To pay for it, big business and Republican-dominated tax advisory panel plans to advise Bush to raise taxes on working families. Was the New York terror hoax a diversionary tactic?

O’Reilly’s racist argument has deep roots in the ultra right. It is echoed daily by the likes of Bill Bennett who thought nothing of arguing that genocide against Black people would eliminate much crime.

The archconservative opinion rag National Review welcomed hypocritical gambling addict and anti-public education ideologue William Bennett back into the public spotlight this past week.

The devastation caused by hurricane Katrina has led millions of Americans to open our hearts to the helpless victims of the Gulf Coast communities. Donations by the millions have poured in. Volunteers by the thousands have rushed to disaster sites to help with rescue work and reconstruction. And the unions and union members of our country have been among those who have given generously.

As the people of the Gulf Coast begin the long road to recovery after the worst natural disaster in American history, President Bush is choosing to use this tragedy to push his conservative political agenda on the region.

From "faith-based" discrimination to arch-conservative Chief Justice nominee Roberts and a National ID card concept, Constitutional protections are being sacrificed to an ultra right agenda. Learn more and find ways to fight back.

College student indebtedness grows as students find covering rising costs impossible. Fight Bush's decision to force down wages for Gulf Coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Express support for Korean hotel workers. Despite right-wing lies, the gender wage gap persists and costs women and their families hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Questioning of John Roberts, President Bush's pick to replace the late William H. Rehnquist as Supreme Court Chief Justice, will continue Wednesday, in the face of complaints that Roberts is deflecting and evading specific answers to questions.

John Roberts is testifying in a cool and calculating way, letting everyone in Washington know that he will play their game, the game that cynical Europeans identify with the "political class," meaning the functionaries from the right schools who staff the executive agencies and the inner councils of the major political parties.

The illegal occupation in Iraq and the American Apartheid revealed by events in New Orleans provide ample evidence that it is time that “We the People” oust the scoundrels who are “leading” our nation. It is incumbent upon the poor and the working class...to exercise our social consciences and wrest the power from the unworthy hands of the wealthy minority who now hold that power.

Just as it showed at the end of 2000 that those who control the counting and recounting of votes determine who "wins" and election, the Bush administration is showing us that those who control and in effect censor media images "invent reality."

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) this week exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits. The exposure comes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as the oil industry blames environmental regulation for limiting the number of US refineries.

OAKLAND, CA - 6SEPTEMBER05 - Demonstrators in front of Oakland's Federal Building condemn the slow response of the Bush administration to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and accuse the Federal government of discrimination against victims who are largely Black and poor.