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stand up Democrats Listen to this week's guests In-depth discussions with the nations top progressive commentators each week. Each show features a common sense commentary from Texan populist Jim Hightower. 
Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be – consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top… As political columnist Molly Ivins said, ‘If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor." To read his latest commentaries and subscribe to his monthly Hightower Lowdown, go to www.JimHightower.com.  Hear the host of The Bill Press Show on America'sDemocrats.org! Bill Press is a fierce progressive with insider access to the administration -- he's the only nationally syndicated talk radio host to attend the daily White House press briefings. Listen here for his interviews with lawmakers and prominent Democrats! Visit BillPressShow.com for more. |
WASHINGTON — Amid growing public unhappiness over gas prices, President Barack Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. But the moves won’t calm [...]
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By MJ LEE | 5/7/11 9:22 AM EDT Updated: 5/7/11 1:25 PM EDT For the third weekend in a row, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation on Saturday to promote his energy agenda, calling clean energy jobs the “jobs of the future.” Speaking from the Allison Transmission plant [...] The New York Times
By HELENE COOPER Many of President Obama’s friends and foes alike got shellacked — as expected — on Saturday night when Mr. Obama took to the stage at the gussied-up White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton. But none so much as Mr. Trump, reality television star, birther [...] In a Life Filled With Firsts, One More
WESTON, Fla. — Open lunchboxes are sprawled on the kitchen counter. Four dogs dart in and out. And three children rummage through backpacks. With the predawn bedlam at its height, the harried mother asks: Do you have your baseball glove? What do you want for [...] The Washington Post
By Ben Pershing Timothy M. Kaine announced Tuesday that he would run to succeed retiring Sen. James Webb, giving Virginia Democrats a marquee candidate for a race that could help determine control of the U.S. Senate and the political direction of a rapidly evolving state I’m running!” Kaine said on [...] |
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