Obama Fires First Salvo in Latest Budget Fracas
Heralding a new budget battle with congressional Republicans, U.S. President Obama called Thursday for an end to the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration and proposed a 7% hike in spending above those More...
Bernie Sanders Goes Postal On Proposed Mail Service Cuts
Way back in the early days of the internet, many questioned the future of the Postal Service, since emails were fast replacing snail mail. The development of ecommerce, however, has been a boon to the More...
Adelson’s Online Gambling Ban Initiative Fails in Lame-Duck Session
Sheldon Adelson’s attempt to attach a ban on online gambling to legislation in the current session of Congress has probably failed, Poker News reports. Despite the lavish investments the Sands’ More...
J Street Poll Finds Netanyahu Most Popular Figure among US Jews
All the way at the bottom of an article in Haaretz about the Jewish voters by and large maintaining their loyalty to the Democratic party, you’ll discover another classic: U.S. Jews are enamored with More...
Tom Steyer Is the Biggest Political Donor for 2014
– While Democrats often take issue with campaigns financed by the 1%, the biggest political donor of 2014 is not the Koch brothers or conservative casino owner Sheldon Adelson: it is Tom Steyer, More...
PACMan Tom Steyer Gives NextGen $15 Million
Parties, campaigns and PACs had to meet their deadlines Saturday to disclose details from donations. Democrat and environmental activist, Tom Steyer, wrote a $15 million check in August to his green PAC More...