In Nick's post about Ted Kennedy's torch passing to Obama, he wrote that the late senator's seat would be empty for nearly six months while a special election is organized "unless Massachusetts Dems change the law." Reports out of the state capital suggest that may happen when the Massachusetts legislature returns to session.
Up until 2004, the state did not require special elections to fill mid-term Senate vacancies. John Kerry's campaign for the presidency prompted Massachusetts...
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While congress debates whether or not it should outlaw monopoly power, price fixing, collusion and exclusion among the purveyors of our health care system, 45000 Americans will die needlessly every year from the lack of basic medical care. The end product of two political parties that would be just one conservative party in an actual representative democracy, relying on the same financial sources from the same entrenched powers that have a monumental stake in maintaining the status quo no matter how many Americans it kills Two political parties in name only that are united in their resolve to set insurmountable barriers to the establishment of any opposition from the right or the left of the political spectrum .
Any attempt at reform of this corrupt system is incestuously controlled by the very same people whose lavish lifestyles depend on thwarting it at every turn. Cases in point are currently health care and banking reform. Reg...