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  • MidWeek 31 March 2011
    Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ordered at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday that the law "has not been published within the meaning" of Wisconsin statute and "is therefore not in effect."basing her amended order on testimony at the March 18 hearing and evidence at the March 29 hearing.
    Amending The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to allow a new bridge over the St. Croix River amounts to a repeal of protection for scenic rivers nationwide, said former U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale, who was a co-author of the 1968 bill that protects those waterways.
    400 people jammed a hall in Minneapolis on
    Wednesday for something not seen in 24 years: a Minnesota governor Mark Dayton in the heart of the African American community listening to their concerns.
    22 min
  • The Libyan Civil War according to Rand Paul
    Rand Paul the Libertarian-minded freshman senator from Kentucky came against the Libyan Civil War on constitutional grounds. "i am appalled that the Senate hasn’t strenuously objected and offered an amendment to pending legislation declaring that it is the sense of the Senate that the president doesn’t have the power under the U.S. Constitution to unilaterally enter into a military conflict absent an imminent threat",Rand Paul.
    34 min
  • The Ronald H. Brown United States Mission
    Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi made it clear on Tuesday: Any further implementation of Gov. Scott Walker's law limiting public employee unions is barred, and anyone who violates her order risks sanctions.
    Blue Dog Coalition is the blueprint for this potential coalition was a March 15 vote to extend government funding for three weeks. The vote easily passed with 271 votes, but only because 186 Republicans were joined by 85 Democrats.
    President Obama and Bill Clinton delivered remarks at the dedication of the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building in New York City.
    34 min
  • President Obama addresses the Nation on the Libyan Civil War
    President Obama will address the nation tonight from the National Defense University on the U.S. role in Libya to"update the American people on the situation in Libya, including the actions we've taken with allies and partners to protect the Libyan people , the transition to NATO command and control, and our policy going forward."
    A Gallup poll conducted March 21 found support for the mission is the lowest at the outset of a U.S. military action in the past three decades. Forty-seven percent of Americans approve of the Libya mission, while 37 percent disapprove. By comparison, 51 percent approved of the intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and 76 percent approved at the start of the war in Iraq in 2003.
    Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com) will host our coverage.
    32 min
  • Politics Sunday
    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.
    46 min
  • This Week in Politics 26 March 2011
    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) . Esta semana en la política es una revista semanal de noticias impactantes de la semana pasada en la política nacional con comentarios y la visió
    46 min
  • Friday Java 25 March 2011
    Gov. Scott Walker's controversial measure limiting collective bargaining for public sector employees will become law Saturday, after the law was published Friday by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
    The number of African Americans in the DC declined by 11 percent during the past decade
    “We’re going to stop this trend — gentrification,” said D.C. Council member Marion Barry and former mayor.
    Rep. Michele Bachmannforms a presidential exploratory committee,
    rench intellectual celebrity Bernard-Henry Levy gets the credit for
    convincing President Nicholas Sarkozy to recognise the Libyan
    opposition in a new AFP article. Having traveled to Benghazi shortly
    after the uprising, Levy brought three members of the transition national council to Paris to meet with Sarkozy on March 10; after the meeting, Sarkozy made his announcement, which reportedly even caught Foreign Minister Alain Juppe off guard.
    40 min
  • MidWeek 24 March 2011
    NATO countries have agreed to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya "to protect civilians" against Muammar Gaddafi's forces and the military alliance's mandate does not go beyond the no-fly zone but NATO could also act in self-defence, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
    Newt Gingrich told Fox News On March 7 "he would implement a no-fly zone this evening if he were president. On Wednesday, he told NBC’s “The Today Show,” “I would not have intervened.”
    He then referred back to the Lockerbie bombing lie(as is the case for many so-called journalist from the Judith Miller School of Journalism), not the rebel uprising, as the apparent justification for getting rid of Gaddafi.
    The Huffington Post management has removed Andrew Breitbart the racist lair from their highly-trafficked front page, in the wake of some vicious comments made about former progressive White House adviser Van Jones.
    28 min
  • Herman Cain 2012
    Herman Cain is a newspaper columnist, businessman, political activist, and radio talk-show host from Georgia. He is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza. He is a former deputy chairman and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
    Cain has been cited as one of the primary "saboteurs" of the 1993/1994 health care plan of Hillary "the Monster" Clinton.
    Cain transformed the debate when he challenged Clinton at a town meeting in Kansas City, Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the "employer mandate." Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. "Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate," he told the president. "In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn't work that way."
    Cain was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in both his colon and his liver. Cain underwent surgery and chemotherapy following the diagnosis, and has since reported that he is cancer-free
    39 min
  • Politics Sunday 20 March 2011
    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.
    37 min

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