Maine Senator Susan Collins May Be Second Republican To Support Healthcare Reform

   After the Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 in favor of their version of health management and care reform, today Democrats met behind closed doors to try to merge House and Senate versions of health insurance and care reforms into one bill. While that was going Maine Senator Susan Collins announced that she [...]

Democrats Afraid of a Return To Average Black Voter Turnout Numbers

   According to a Aaron Blake at The Hill, Democrats are fearing that a drop off in African-American votes in coming elections that do not feature President Obama on the ballot, could be quite detrimental to their election and reelection efforts. This fear is playing itself out in the elections for governor and state legislative [...]

Wall Street Makes Successful 10k Run But Economic Ruin Awaits

   The Dow Jones hit the 10,000 mark at 1:19 p.m. The first time we had ever hit that mark was in March of 1999. Ten years ago. Since then the Dow exceeded that level but after the economic downturn of last year, we fell far below, not only those highs but also the 10,000 [...]

From The Wreckage of 9/11 Comes The USS New York

  Through heavy fog, the USS New York lefts its moorings at Avondale, Louisiana and set out on a voyage to its namesake, New York City. After three years of construction at Avondale, people lined both sides of the Mississippi to pay tribute to a vessel that was born out of the steel that was [...]

Blanche Lincoln & Olympia Snowe Will Support The Baucus Healthcare Bill in Committee

  Ahead of the actual Senate Finance Committee vote on health  management and care reform, Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln and Maine Senator Olympia  Snowe  have  declared that they will be supporting it in committee. Lincoln was the only Democrat of the the thirteen Democrats on the committee whose vote was doubtful.  As one of the most vulnerable [...]

Senate Finance Committee Vote On Healthcare Focuses On Olympia Snowe

    The Senate Finance Committee is about to vote on the administration’s everything or nothing push for health management and care reform packages. The committee’s chairman, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has pieced together a version of the bill that is more than likely to pass the 13 to 10 Democrat over Republican member committee. This [...]

Reckless Debt Accumulation & Misleading Environmental Policy: Vote No On Ballot Question #1

    On November 3rd, those voters in New Jersey who realize that there is an election is going on will be deciding who their assemblymen and state senators will be. They will also be choosing who the Governor of the state for the next four years will be. The choices for governor are dismal. Essentially [...]

Hillary Clinton Wont Run For President, Looks Forward to Retirement and Denies Being Marginalized

    In a prerecorded interview conducted by NBC’s Ann Curry on the Today Show, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she will never run for President again. She added that the job she is doing is a 24/7 responsibility and that she is looking forward to retirement. The response is a standard one, especially [...]

Jersey’s Largest Paper Pokes Dems & Reps Right In Their Eyes and Endorses Chris Daggett for Governor

    The Star-Ledger is one of New Jersey’s largest newspapers. It mainly serves Northern and Central New Jersey, where the largest portions of the state’s population exists. Like most newspapers, they are struggling for readers. With 24 hour news outfits on radio and television and the internet, they are hardly do or die sources of [...]

Science Fiction Becomes Reality

    Guest editorial by Mike Duminiak Researchers in Oregon have successfully raised monkeys created from the genetic material of one male and two females. The research is the first major step in using “good genes” from a third party to partially genetically engineer a child from two other main parents. The research was done [...]