Author: IseFire

From the Office of NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson:[Comptroller Thompson] had mentioned [recently] resistance from Micron Technology to adhering to a shareholder vote and adding new language to protect LGBT members of its...

The Republican fund-raising machine is back to some old tricks: the bogus, telemarketed "National Leadership Award" pitch/scam dating back to at least 2002 and ethically-challenged former Congressman Tom DeLay. A...

Elizabeth Drew in the a recent issue of The New York Review of Books gives as convincing of a narrative concerning the nature of the Democrats’ victory in November 2006 as I’ve read anywhere. There are some important...

Fifty years ago today (Oct. 29), Israel attacked Egypt in collusion with the UK and France; in early November, the UK and France entered the conflict militarily, as had been secretly agreed among the three allied nations. UK...

What’s a liberal, what’s a progressive, what’s a populist? I’m not always sure. But, some concerns about Democratic candidate for Senate (TN), Rep. Harold Fold, Jr., has me thinking about that. From the...