On March 3, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., took the Fairness Doctrine and its often overlooked potential threat to Christian radio to the Senate floor. The Oklahoma senator gave a lengthy floor speech and mentioned that Sen. Jim DeMint's effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Fairness Doctrine issue, ...

Much like trusting your mechanic when he says you need new brakes or a doctor when he tells you that your cholestoral is too high, you would hope that elected officials would listen to the experts in a particular field when it comes to developing common sense government policies. On the issue of glo...

It has been reported that due to the recent votes of the Senate & House our debt is a whopping $11.3 Trillion smakeroos.  To shed some light on this gargantuan amount of money, let's look at some comparisons: A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. A trillion dollars is so large a number that o...

I just got off a bloggers' conference call with Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), who was discussing the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191/S. 3036). The Senator had an op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal where he summarized the bill: The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will ...

When the Senate takes up landmark climate legislation this week, its backers can be sure of just one thing: The obstacles they face show how hard it will be to enact a meaningful cap on greenhouse gases -- probably under the next administration....

When the Senate takes up landmark climate legislation this week, its backers can be sure of just one thing: The obstacles they face show how hard it will be to enact a meaningful cap on greenhouse gases -- probably under the next administration....

In a week where Inhofe once again exposed his corporatist and reactionary underbelly, my man Andrew Rice continued to stand up and fight for ordinary Oklahomans. House foreclosures in Oklahoma rose 45 percent in February - but Inhofe voted (along with only 11 other senators) against a federal bill t...