The Real Tom DeLay Story
My name is Allan Lichtman. I am a professor of political history at American University and the former political analyst for CNN Headline News. I was the expert witness for Democrats in the Texas...
View ArticleThe Deep Roots of Republican Corruption
The indictments of Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay are the denouement of a revolution in American government that began with the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. With their control of Congress,...
View ArticleThe Scandal of the Century
Unlike the response to Hurricane Katrina, the first great scandal of the century remains mostly unknown. This was the disenfranchisement of more than 50,000 African-American voters in Florida's 2000...
View ArticleMD-Sen.: The Real Ben Cardin and an Alternative
In the responses to the recent diary on the Maryland Senate race I noticed that several commentators suggested that Congressman Ben Cardin would champion progressive values as a Senator. This...
View ArticleMD-Sen.: Michael Steele: Running on Empty
Although only a couple of weeks old, the campaign of Republican Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele for the U. S. Senate is already running on empty, devoid of issues, ideas, and proposals to improve...
View ArticleMd-Sen.: Lichtman Challenges Cardin on the War
In explaining his recent vote against an immediate pullout from Iraq, Maryland Representative and senatorial candidate Ben Cardin claimed to be a critic of the Iraqi war, saying, "I have called on...
View ArticleHow DeLay and the Corporations Bought Our Government: From the Expert in the...
The big corporate interests that pumped money into Tom DeLay's scheme to control the Texas legislature and break precedent by rewriting an established congressional redistricting plan in mid-decade...
View ArticleTexas Redistricting: The Supreme Court's Historic Opportunity
The U. S. Supreme Court announced this week that it will review the congressional redistricting plan that Rep. Tom DeLay (R) pushed through the Texas legislature in mid-decade to replace an established...
View ArticleAlito: The Message is in the Record, not the Rhetoric
I am a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate from Maryland and to date the only candidate in our state to go on the record in opposition to the seating of Samuel Alito on the U. S. Supreme...
View ArticleAbramoff: The Deeper Scandal Within
Dig beneath the surface of the Abramoff affair and you find the deeper scandal within: the systematic corruption by wealthy corporate interests of a once principled conservative movement. The result is...
View ArticleSecuring Our Right to Vote
As an expert in more than 70 civil and voting rights cases I know that our precious right to vote is not fully secure in the world's oldest continuous democracy. The struggle for voting rights...
View ArticleImmigration and Homeland Security
The United States cannot deal with the issue of immigration in isolation. The only rational approach to immigration and Homeland Security is a comprehensive North American solution that brings in...
View ArticleMD SEN: Letter from a Baltimore County Jail
"We present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community." Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail I am a Democratic candidate...
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