BostonRed

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma on the need to resolve the partisan fight over raising the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling this summer, and the debate over the federal budget.

Politics Sunday is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende.

Governmernt shut down in 6 hours.

Wisconsin  Government Accountability Board dispatched officials to the Waukesha County Clerk's Office Friday afternoon to review procedures used in tallying results of Tuesday's Supreme Court election.

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced on Thursday  that she had made an error in failing to report more than 11,000 votes in the race.

The "Great Debate" Sean Hannity vs Dr Al Sharpton at NAN convention .

Statement from Melissa Mulliken, The Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign:

Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire City were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the County.

Attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory over incumbent state Supreme Court Justice David Prosse.

It would be “inexcusable” if they did not avert a government shutdown before Washington effectively runs out of money, “unless [lawmakers] made the decision that politics are more important.”President Obama

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, released his plan this morning where he said his budget "brings the size of government down" and caps its growth.

His proposal cuts $6 trillion dollars over the next decade by bringing non-security discretionary spending to 2008 levels, reforming Medicare by offering government-subsidized private insurance options and reforming Medicaid through state block grants

Dr. Manning Marable, the author of a long-awaited new biography of Malcolm X to be published Monday and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, died Friday at the age of 60

The New York Times, Marable’s “transformationist” approach is described as urging “black Americans to transform existing social structures and bring about a more egalitarian society by making common cause with other minorities and change-minded groups.”

Politics Sunday is a hard news look at the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insight into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende.

This Week in Politics is a weekly magazine of hard hitting news from the past week in national politics with commentary and insight from liberal commentator Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com) .

I want to talk to you for a minute about what has consumed Washington D.C. the media and your local civics classes in high school and college.The term "circular politics" is not a new, I first heard it in 2004. Circular politics when the right becomes the left and the left becomes the right and I am not talking about the holy grail of compromise of meeting in the middle.

See more http://www.bostonred2010.wordpress.com/what-consumed-washington-by-jerry-pippin/

Advocates say a federal memo that surfaced this week proves that states have the authority to regulate or reroute the controversial oil sands pipeline in Nebraska.

The March employment report shows that private sector payrolls increased by 230,000 in March, marking 13 consecutive months of private employment growth. Private sector employers added 1.8 million jobs over that period, including more than half a million jobs in the last three months. The unemployment rate fell for the fourth straight month to 8.8 percent. A Libyan government spokesman has termed the conditions set by the opposition for a ceasefire "mad", and asserted that troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, will remain stationed where they are.