Podcast of @EgbertoWillies Live Appearance on KPFT FM Radio 90.1 Discussing Class Warfare & Politics

The positions that candidates take on Puerto Rico issues will influence the increasingly important group of voters of Puerto Rico origin in the U.S. However, candidates may not have realized that what they say about Puerto Rico can also have a significant impact on Hispanic voters in general. […]

Of the four contenders, Rick Santorum had the best night. It has taken him twenty debates, but Santorum finally ended up with the primo onstage real estate, right next to Mitt Romney at the heart of the action. […]

Rick Santorum attempted to explain his vote for former President George W. Bush's hallmark "No Child Left Behind" education reform package at the GOP debate... […]

WASHINGTON -- “I always say if you want to know what foreign policy position to take, find out what Joe Biden’s position is and take... […]

The majority of election cycles between 1964 and 2010 resulted in House incumbent reelection rates of at least 90 percent. Those are Kim Jung Il and Robert Mugabe numbers that legitimately call into question the fundamental tenet of American democracy: […]

WASHINGTON -- Former Gov. Mitt Romney spent much of the middle of Wednesday's night GOP debate criticizing former Sen. Rick Santorum on two fronts: being... […]

By DAVID ESPO, ASSOCIATED PRESS MESA, Ariz. — Primed for a fight, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum traded fiery accusations about health care, spending earmarks... […]

WASHINGTON -- In 2005, then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reluctantly supported a law requiring all hospitals in the state -- including Catholic ones -- to... […]

The Republican presidential candidates Tuesday night, during a GOP debate in Arizona, took shots at President Barack Obama for his pro-choice history. Newt Gingrich deflected... […]

He denied being under the influence during the speech. Former New Hampshire campaign manager Kerry Marsh explained his actions at a panel hosted by The... […]

Although many people have assumed the cancer screening must prevent deaths because it is so often recommended, strong evidence had been lacking. […]

Gov. Bob McDonnell said he wanted an amendment stipulating that pre-abortion ultrasounds be limited to a non-invasive abdominal scan. […]

Mitt Romney tried to regain his lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, assailing the voting record of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative exchange. […]

Despite his outstanding play of late, the Knicks’ Jeremy Lin has at least three point guards ahead of him on the depth chart for the United States. […]

Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. […]

A committee recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve what could become the first new prescription drug to treat obesity in 13 years. […]

During the sustained Syrian Army assault on Homs, videos of the violence are offering a stunningly vivid picture, sometimes live or at least in real time, of life in the city. […]

Living alone means freedom to come and go and space and solitude to recharge. It can also unleash eccentricities. […]

A jury recommended late Wednesday that a former University of Virginia lacrosse player should serve 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend and another year in prison for a grand larceny charge. […]

After 20 debates, a long-running television series appears to be wrapping up. […]

When I was in first grade, or maybe it was second, our classroom teacher was an Iranian-born woman who had moved to the United States fairly recently. I remember her as of entirely average stature, dark-haired, and with no detectable accent (at that age, we children were not exactly experts in the field of accents, each one of us having our own childhood lis […]

(Posted on behalf of the organizers and participants of the NFTT blogathon) Netroots For The Troops® is holding a blogathon this week, Feb. 20-24, to raise funds to send Care Packages to soldiers overseas and, this year for the first time, we are also sending Care Packages domestically to VA hospitals. In tonight's roundup of blogathon diaries, kossacks […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:49 PM PT: Last segment of the last GOP debate coming up. Last chance for John King to ask Rick Santorum about his Satan warning. 6:50 PM PT: I've seen two ads for Rick Santorum here in Ohio during the debate. And one ad for Joyce Beatty, a congressional candidate, who pledges in the ad to fight back […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:33 PM PT: Boy, is Mitt off base on sanctions.  POTUS has led the world in imposing most withering economic sanctions ever. — @davidaxelrod via Twitter for Mac 6:37 PM PT: Candidates, where are the jobs? #cnndebate — @DrMetzler via Mobile Web 6:39 PM PT: Off the top of my head, the main issues that these […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 6:10 PM PT: Mitt Romney says Arizona is a model for how to handle immigration throughout the country. Papers please! 6:10 PM PT: Newt: if we hire illegals, we can build the border fence really cheap. — @HunterDK via TweetDeck 6:15 PM PT: Mitt Romney may have packed the audience tonight, but I still think h […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 5:57 PM PT: This debate is like traveling back to the 13th century. 5:59 PM PT: Regarding Mitt Romney, the morning after pill, and Catholic hospitals, here's a flashback: ov. Mitt Romney abandoned plans Thursday to exempt Roman Catholic and other private hospitals from a new law requiring them to disp […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 5:44 PM PT: We're on break now, but I'm thinking maybe I got the theme of this debate wrong. Instead of Rickmittgeddon, it's GOPocalypse. 5:45 PM PT: I'm watching in Ohio—and the Rombo ad is playing during the break. Not sure if it's on the national feed or not. 5:46 PM PT: I' […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 5:30 PM PT: Romney to Santorum: "While I was fighting to save the Olympics, you were fighting to save the Bridge to Nowhere." Santorum to Romney: "You don't know what you're talking about." They really are looking petty. 5:31 PM PT: This debate is just terrible for these guys. […]

Wednesday marked a sort of poll-mageddon, with waves of data coming all day long. I initially considered hiding under my bed, but instead went with the idea of starting the Wrap sometime around breakfast, in the naive hope that it would be done by sunset. Obviously, there is a lot to digest in the numbers. But the general trends continue to hold: (1) if ther […]

Talk about it here. Watch it live on CNN or CNN.com. 5:12 PM PT: Mitt Romney brags about balancing the budget when he "served in the Olympics." Yeah, actually, the American taxpayer balanced that budget—with $1.2 billion. 5:15 PM PT: Rick Santorum just accused Mitt Romney of raising taxes—and of using the Occupy Wall Street rhetoric. Romney says Sa […]