AltWeeklies Wire
An Interview with California Lt. Gov Garamendinew
John Garamendi was invited to speak to the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce on September 30 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel which is important to Harbor area residents and businesses because he sits as the Chair of the State’s Tidelands commission which oversees all of the ports of the state including LA and Long Beach.
Random Lengths News |
Staff |
10-31-2008 |
Politics
Tags: California, John Garamendi
Not Swayed By Fearnew
This election promises to be one of those "bell weather" events that happen once in a generation, shifting the entire political psychology. It will be what Thomas Jefferson prophesied that every twenty years a democracy needs to have a revolution -- preferably without blood shed–ballots not bullets.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Mudslinging Socialismnew
Obama has also been slandered with the "socialist" moniker for wanting to reform national health care, fund education and reinvest in our nation's infrastructure -- all very socialist ideas according to McPalin.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
The New Socialism and the End of a Free Market Mythnew
This is perhaps the final crisis, in a line of crises, of the Bush/Cheney administration, which at best, has been a sour lesson to us all in "failed crisis management." The root of all of this stupidity is their fundamentalist belief that less government is better government.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Politics, Economics & The Presidential Electionsnew
McCain says he's for education. But to oppose spending money to replace the Adler projector that was too old to get parts for -- what with holography and laser technology being way out of date -- his complaint proves McCain's real contempt of knowledge and education.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialismnew
There's something worth examining in the McCain campaign's desire to boil the archetypal Joe the Plumber and the prosecutorial Joe McCarthy up into a strange brew they hope will get an anxious electorate drunk enough to put the Arizona senator in the White House.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Obama Wins: So What's Next for Canada?new

Hopefully, as he tells us, Obama will bring "the change we need" and usher in a new day for the economy, social issues, and international relations. Before that day comes, however, we should probably follow Bette Davis's famous advice in All About Eve: "Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy night."
The Georgia Straight |
Doug Sarti |
10-31-2008 |
Politics
'Godless Atheist' in Elizabeth Dole Ad is Actually a Bible Teachernew
This week, Republican U.S. Sen, Elizabeth Dole began running a statewide 30-second TV ad linking her opponent, Kay Hagan, to godless atheists. But one of the alleged atheists pictured in the ad is Rick Stone, a former Bible teacher, and a current theology student at Harvard Divinity School.
Happytown's Endorsementsnew
You may not have heard, but there's an election coming up Nov. 4. Suddenly you're asking yourself, "Who and what would my dear friends at Happytown vote for?" Wonder no longer. It's endorsement time.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Boise Weekly Hip Hop Voter's Guidenew

After eight years of Bush, expectations
are low, the next president will need some
flow, five men in the race in Idaho, pick
one on your ballot at the poll: Candidate profiles in a hip hop vein.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
10-30-2008 |
Politics
Ewwww, Scary!new
Our annual wearable tribute to the truly horrifying, just in time for Halloween. Instructions: Cut along the dotted lines, open eye and mouth holes, immediately suspend all trick-or-treating and return to Washington.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Prime Minister Harper Should Take a Tip from Pearson and Step Asidenew

At a time when the ongoing "war on terror" has been joined by a new "war on recession," our failure to trust any party with a majority says much about the sorry state of politics in Canada.
Fast Forward Weekly |
David Bright |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
The Other Issues (The Ones That Aren't Being Talked About)new
There must be other ways the election is going to matter that don't get talked about on the Sunday morning talk shows. Here's a list of Things You Haven't Realized the Election is Going to Affect.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Staff |
10-30-2008 |
Politics
Election '08: The Can't Votersnew
Millions of people who will be greatly affected by the outcome of next week's election, but won't be able to cast a vote in it. And yet, some of these same people -- those who don't meet citizenship requirements, the incarcerated and the underaged -- are more invested in the political process than many eligible Americans.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Tom Namako |
10-30-2008 |
Politics
Obama is Winning ... and That's Hard to Get Our Head Aroundnew
I've reached a point where I can't really imagine John McCain giving a concession speech (especially when you factor in his inherent stubbornness, and the groundwork his campaign has been laying to dispute results). I feel like I've seen this movie before, and it doesn't end happily.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Doron Taussig |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary