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Newsom Admits Alcohol Problem: Will His Supporters?
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced late Monday that he would be entering an outpatient rehab program at Delancey Street, and we wish him the best in overcoming his alcohol problem. But it was only last week that the mayor's communications director Peter Ragone denied that Newsom had a drinking problem, and those raising this concern were quickly labeled “anti-Newsom” and political opponents of the mayor. Those in the “Newsom is always right” mindset likely contributed to the mayor’s sense of denial...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:36am PST
Two Longtime Chicago Journalists On The Rise of Sen. Barack Obama
Chicago Sun-Times Washington bureau chief Lynn Sweet and Salim Muwakkil, senior editor of In These Times, discuss how Obama rise from a community organizer in Illinois to a state legislator to a Senator to a presidential candidate....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:36am PST
Can Newsom Survive Ragone and Tourk Scandals?
Can Newsom Survive Ragone and Tourk Scandals?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 1:07am PST
Ralph Nader on Why He Might Run In 2008
Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader says he will decide later this year whether to run for president in 2008. Today he also looks back at his childhood and his new book "Seventeen Traditions." In addition, film director Henriette Mantel joins us to talk about "An Unreasonable Man."...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 8:01am PST
Newsom Scandal: Move on? Or Get Questions Answered?
Since breaking the Newsom sex scandal story, the Chronicle has been busy doing damage control for the Mayor. The paper has not only failed to raise obvious questions, but is trying to shift the focus away from the Mayor’s sexual relationship with an employee he supervised by emphasizing the city’s pressing problems and the need to “move on.” Should San Franciscans stop asking questions about the scandal, or should some important questions first be answered? For example, how can anyone say tha...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:32am PST
Democrats’ “Out of Iraq” caucus puts on a show for its radical friends
A January 29 event in Washington sponsored by the “Out of Iraq” congressional caucus exemplified the political orientation of the left-liberal, Stalinist and middle-class radical forces that organized the January 27 antiwar protest....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:31am PST
France: Nicolas Sarkozy goes to London
Nicolas Sarkozy’s first foreign excursion since his designation as official presidential candidate of France’s ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a People’s Movement) was a trip to London. He spent January 30 visiting the Marylebone Jobcentre Plus, lunching with Prime Minister Tony Blair and addressing an election rally organised by the London branch of the UMP, which attracted 2,000 French expatriates....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:28am PST
The Green-Zoning of America: PAUL KRUGMAN - Spoils System ; U.S. hell-bent for Iran war
KRUGMAN: Under the guise of promoting a conservative agenda, the Bush administration has created a supersized version of the 19th-century spoils system.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 5:32am PST
Nader not opposed to '08 run.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Sunday left the door open for another possible White House bid in 2008 and criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a panderer and a flatterer."...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 5:51pm PST
Laughing Liberally Local 415 w/Johnny Steele & Joe Klocek
Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St. at Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 3:09pm PST
Hillary explains vote for war
Hillary Clinton explains her war vote...
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 11:59am PST
Germany: Wide divisions among Christian Democrats
The ferocity of the recent internal party disputes within the Christian Social Union (CSU) has even surprised some of those involved. In mid-January, when Edmund Stoiber finally announced he would be leaving office as the Bavarian state premier and head of the CSU in the autumn, he hoped to stabilise the situation. But all attempts to bring the crisis under control through high-level talks and appeals for unity have failed....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:31am PST
BTL:Libby Trial Window Into White House Iraq War Attack Machine
Interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:16am PST
Pelosi Watch Group (postponed?)
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia Street
San Francisco...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 3:40pm PST
Enough of Gavin Newsom’s Sex Capades
By now, it’s made news all over the world: a seemingly contrite San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took to the confessional box on national TV and apologized for his affair with his campaign manager’s wife. They had the fling while she worked for him as appointments secretary. Apparently she spilled the beans to hubby as part of her recovery program. Hubby rushed over to Newsom’s office to resign his post. It was all very Days of Our Lives....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 7:58am PST
Do Chavez’s New Decree Powers Undermine Venezuelan Democracy? A Debate
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that his government would move toward nationalizing major parts of the country’s oil industry. The announcement came just one day after the Venezuelan National Assembly agreed to Chavez’s request that he be allowed to rule by decree for the next 18 months. Since being re-elected in December with 63 percent of the vote, Chavez has put forward a series of sweeping reforms that will lay the groundwork for what he describes as “Bolivarian soc...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 7:55am PST
Congressional Democrats embrace Republican resolution on Iraq
With their endorsement Wednesday of a Republican-drafted resolution pledging to continue funding for the Iraq war, Congressional Democratic leaders have exposed their supposed opposition to the Bush administration’s troop “surge” as a rebellion on their knees....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:32am PST
Senator Prejudice: The Day Joe Biden Threatened to Kick My Ass
It was nearly two decades ago, yet the memory of a campus speech delivered by Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware remains especially vivid (and even more so after hearing his latest gaffe to Senator Barack Obama). The topic was predictably foreign policy, on which he is allegedly an expert, but reason for attending was not to hear the verbose senator sanctimoniously expound on international relations. Rather, it was in anticipation of the question and answer session to follow. At the time, Israe...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:15am PST
Can Newsom Survive Ragone and Tourk Scandals?
Sfgate.com confirmed rumors last night that Newsom campaign manager Alex Tourk resigned his position after confronting the Mayor over Newsom’s affair with Tourk’s wife. Ruby Rippey-Tourk was working for the Mayor when she claims the two engaged in the affair. This allegation could soon require City Attorney Dennis Herrera to prosecute Mayor Newsom for violating city ethics laws. If the Mayor’s Director of Communications Peter Ragone was hoping to get his name out of the papers over his own sc...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 9:14am PST
Time Magazine Reporter Testifies Karl Rove First Revealed Identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame
David Corn of the Nation magazine joins us with the latest on the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter’ Libby. Former Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper testified Wednesday that it was President Bush’s political advisor, Karl Rove, who first revealed the CIA status of Valerie Plame. Cooper follows former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who acknowledged she had conversations with other government officials and could not be “absolutely certain” that...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 9:09am PST