Comment and Response This was a response in another outlet to the posts from a few days ago, Rantings of a Radical Right Winger and Where Is Our Treasury Secretary. The writer purports to be a former Republican who I imagine was disillusioned by the Bush years. It is consistent with other comments f...

It has to be said that we’re anticipating a huge show.  Bigger than usual with a few additional rants n raves and an additional campaign to talk up. And Rant n Rave Radio would like to send out a big thank you to all the fire-fighters and emergency services that have been working their asses ...

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a speech to Justice Department employees, said the Untied States is a nation of cowards on matters of race and that most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues. That begs me to question if such is the reason Roland Burris is still a member of the United Sta...

Barack Obama makes his first visit to Arizona since being elected as President of the United States on Tuesday and Wednesday. I know millions of Arizonans (including me) are excited to have Obama in our state so he can discuss his plan to resolve the foreclosure crisis, the economic stimulus package...

What You Say In Office Actually Matters During the campaign candidate Barack Obama had much to say about the way that Washington has been broken, and how the failed policies of the last eight years have brought us to the economic point we are at now. He spoke of how the political insiders needed to ...

Wow. The ink isn't even dry on the stimulus compromise and the religious right is already up in arms! Mike Huckabee has declared it "anti-religious". What?? It must have really hurt to have to take both the Democrats and Republicans to task for this offense. After all, it is a 'bi-partisan' bill. We...

I have tried to keep up with the ongoing maneuvering by Congress and President Obama concerning the "Stimulus Package". President Obama has made an effort to appease the GOP congressfolk - multiple offers to meet with groups and individuals from the GOP (many of them turned down by the invitees), ad...

Like kids in a candy store, when our politicians know that there is an immediate need to get a bill passed, they will load that bill up with everything up to and including the kitchen sink. Most of the time this pork for the people back home is buried in a place in the bill where it can go unnoticed...

“To say that food safety in this country is a patchwork system is giving it too much credit. It is a hit or miss gamble, and that is truly frightening. It’s time to find the gaps in the system and remedy them.� – Agriculture Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa As I’ve been reporting...

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