In his State of the Union speech, President Obama said and proposed many reasonable-sounding things. One of them was this: We’ll also establish a Financial Crimes Unit of highly trained investigators to crack down on large-scale fraud… financial firms violate major anti-fraud laws because there’s no real penalty for being a repeat offender… So pass [...]
Oscar-nominated actor Julianne Moore, participated in Women Are Watching’s special membership and media event, yesterday in New York. She agreed to share her thoughts about what’s at stake in 2012. In the fall of 2000, I remember speaking with Glamour, about how I wouldn’t even consider voting for a candidate who didn’t support reproductive rights [...]
Michigan State Representative Lisa L. Howze is already suiting up for the 2013 Detroit mayoral race. Howze said she will run for mayor of the city of Detroit on WJBK’s “Let It Rip” Thursday night, and she will officially announce her candidacy Friday morning. Currently representing the second district, a section of northeast Detroit bordering [...]
WASHINGTON — Roseanne Barr is running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination – and she says it’s no joke. The actress-comedian said in a statement Thursday that she’s a longtime supporter of the party and looks forward to working with people who share her values. She said Democrats and Republicans aren’t working in the best [...]
WASHINGTON — During his presidential campaign in 2007, Republican candidate Mitt Romney promised that a trust overseeing his financial portfolio would shed any investments that conflicted with GOP positions toward Iran, China, stem cell research and other issues. But Romney’s family trusts kept some of those stocks and repeatedly bought new investments in similar holdings [...]
I have long been a supporter of the Susan B. Komen Foundation for their great work on combating breast cancer. In the past, like so many millions of Americans, I too donated to the “Race for a Cure.” The mission is so important, but to allow their non-profit organization to become politicized and hijacked by [...]
With the Florida primary in the books and a triumphant Mitt Romney headed out to favorable settings — like Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan — loaded with momentum and flush with cash, we would, in ordinary circumstances, be saying that the 2012 GOP nomination is over. Just need to have the votes, count the delegates, and [...]
PHILADELPHIA — The daughter of GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum was hospitalized near his home in Virginia, not in Philadelphia, as originally reported. In a statement Tuesday, campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said the family decided on a local hospital after a news release went out about 3-year-old Bella. She is recovering from pneumonia. The release [...]
By TERRY COLLINS and BETH DUFF-BROWN, The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Many in the crowd outside Oakland City Hall shouted “Burn it! Burn it!” as masked protesters readied to set fire to an American flag. That’s when a woman emerged from the scrum, screaming for them to stop, that it would hurt the [...]
The next episode of that reality TV show known as The GOP Bumper-Car Presidential Campaign is this Saturday, February 4th — the Nevada primary. So we have to ask: Is Nevada more like America? They said Iowa was, but then it was too white. They said New Hampshire was, but then it was too Yankee. [...]
