Blogs & Opinion From Politics West

Biden in Denver on cue - at barbecue

jfender — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:05:04 -0600

Newly announced vice presidential candidate Joe Biden stopped for lunch at Boney's BBQ in Writer's Square just of Denver's 16th Street Mall on Monday...

Sirota's Orwellian bailout analysis

Rossputin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:04:40 -0600

One of what I considered to be the most important arguments against the “financial system stabilization” bill is that it would let people...

Bailout is capitalism murdering democracy

dsirota — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:08:49 -0600

The United States has always struggled to balance its capitalist economy with its democratic ideals. We've spent the last many years telling...

From democracy to crazy-ocracy...And back again?

dsirota — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:04:54 -0600

Over the last few days, I've explored a number of explanations as to why Congress seems determined to pass a wildly unpopular Wall Street giveaway at...

Bailout Bill Horrors

Rossputin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:21:43 -0600

Timely post, Nancy.

While I can't say I've read the whole bill, I have read the tables of contents of the whole bill and then read...

Economics 101: Breaking down the financial crisis

mkcoquia — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:20:31 -0600

Amidst looming microbiology tests, psychology papers, and being editor of my school's paper...life as a college student with all this political...

Read the bill

nwatzman — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:39:32 -0600

Four hundred and fifty-one pages. That's the length of the financial bailout bill the Senate overwhelmingly approved last night by a vote of 74 to...

Gwen's book is not the problem!

Gloria Neal — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:45:23 -0600

Oh give me a break!

So what Gwen Ifill has a book coming out on inauguration day about Senator Obama and other African Americans on...

Fact-Checking Sirota and Obama

Rossputin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:45:35 -0600

Here on the Gang of Four blog, ultra-liberal
columnist David Sirota went through Friday's McCain-Obama debate

"Who are those guys?"

jandrews — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:19:39 -0600

The late Paul Newman's famous refrain with Robert Redford, playing Butch and Sundance...