http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us On January 20, 1937, in his Second Inaugural Address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4712737 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:18:38 -0800 When President Obama tells the nation his revised policy on Afghanistan, he will surely indicate that America's mission in that country is not open-ended in duration, that we will leave when our objectives have been accomplished, and that the objectives... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4664358 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:22 -0800 For eight long months President Obama has been wrestling with the request of his commanding general in Afghanistan for at least 40,000 more American troops to reinforce the 68,000 already there alongside the 50,000 NATO soldiers. Virtually the entire foreign-policy... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4620319 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:24:22 -0800 Last week Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent three days in Pakistan defending U.S. policy before a variety of groups. Some of the audiences were blunt and combative, reflecting the dramatic decline in popularity of U. S. policy. The... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4528709 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:15:59 -0700 Most Americans are expecting big changes in our health-care system-and they want them fast. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll reported that 49% of the people responding expected people without insurance would get help in buying coverage this year or next.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4469277 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:00:32 -0700 Obama's very effectiveness as a president is widely viewed as being in serious question. He is unable to convince people that the stimulus program is working. His health care reform program is under attack from a variety of interests. On... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4373419 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:56:39 -0700 In 1981, at the height of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president of the United States. He immediately heightened tensions using belligerent rhetoric attacking the Soviet Union as "The Evil Empire" while authorizing an enormous military buildup against... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4350410 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:23:31 -0700 President Barack Obama has been pushing hard for his plan to overhaul the health-care system: speaking to all kinds of audiences across the country; seizing every opportunity on television, radio, newspapers, magazines, Internet; meeting with countless group leaders including Republicans... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4300056 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:00:31 -0700 A clash is coming on U.S. policy in Afghanistan. President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase there. One plan, advocated by Vice President Joe Biden, would "scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4250876 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:39:35 -0700 The same neo-conservatives who promoted the mistaken war in Iraq, are now urging President Barack Obama to greatly increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan and to stay there as long as it takes to conquer that country and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4169913 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:07:26 -0700 Suddenly, American popular opinion is turning against the war in Afghanistan. And the catalyst is the conservative columnist, George Will, who shook up the establishment by writing in his nationally syndicated column that U.S. “forces should be substantially reduced to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4100843 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:33:33 -0700 Amnesty International USA reports on the case of Mohammed Jawad, detained by U. S. intelligence five years ago at age 12 to 17 somewhere in the Middle East, sent to Guantánamo Bay prison, beaten, subjected to sleep deprivation and intense... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4026781 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:01:58 -0700 The liberals achieve their maximum political strength in the Democratic Party primary elections: they speak up at meetings, define the issues, make early political contributions, and rarely miss a vote. As political consciousness spreads slowly through the rest of the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3954562 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:54:03 -0700 Despite President Barack Obama's brilliant performance at his primetime press conference on health care, Republicans and some conservative Democrats are balking at the details of the proposed legislation. But the devil is not in the details. It is in the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3748069 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:28:33 -0700 Alone among the nations of the world, the U. S. has relied upon private health insurance to cover the majority of its population, but far from all - 47 million are left out. This system is inefficient: it costs too... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3708188 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:22:55 -0700 7.2 million people have lost their jobs since the start of the recession. The effects of these layoffs have been horrendous on the workers and their families. The recession is making us sick, the employed as well as the unemployed.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3683735 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:23:49 -0700 Minnesota finally has a new senator. Al Franken, a professional comedian running for office for the first time, overcame Norm Coleman, a professional politician Franken has a national reputation in show business. In his unique comedy style he covered the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3572818 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:12:25 -0700 When Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Frances Perkins to be his Secretary of Labor in 1932, she said she would accept only if he would support her social justice agenda: Federal relief and large-scale public works programs to help victims of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3565140 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:34:05 -0700 Dr. Marc Sklar, an endocrinologist in Washington, DC was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, “If we could prevent even a small percentage of people from becoming obese and developing these conditions (diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic problems) the cost... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3526435 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:38:31 -0700 In Cairo, President Barack Obama addressed the world's billion Muslims preaching the values of political freedom, democracy and human rights. Remarkably, he virtually apologized for the repeated Western interference in the affairs of Muslim nations, citing the overthrow of the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3511941 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:30:36 -0700