Mark Green Sarah Palin's rhetoric against the East and West Coast elites -and liberal media - appeals to aggrieved "ordinary Americans", in her phrase....

It seems that, at long last, the Higher Education Funding Council has woken up to the importance of the effective and proper governance of universities ("University accused of £36m student scam", 23 December). It is just a pity that it has taken a huge scandal to force HEFC to take belated action.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - A large majority of people in the United States would like to see the salaries of top executives capped, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 47 per cent of respondents strongly support this idea, and 31 per cent back it moderately.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - People in the United States are evenly divided in their opinion about a health care reform bill recently approved by the House of Representatives, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 41 per cent of respondents support the bill, whereas 39 per cent oppose it.

Two Chicago Heights politicians with longtime ties to the Republican party will be appearing on the ballot in February ... as Democrats. Bloom Township Supervisor TJ Somer is running in the Democratic primary to be a Cook County judge in the 15th Subcircuit. He ran for the same position last year, also as a Democrat, and lost. Joining Somer on the Democratic ballot is Chicago Heights Ald. Joseph ...

Newsweek: Public Policy Polling has found that 52 percent of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27 percent granting that he won it legitimately.

The EU president's powers compared with Obama's

European Council leaders are set to elect a president - but how the role compare with that of the US President?

18 November 2009 Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's Trip to Afghanistan Secretary Clinton will travel to Afghanistan to attend President Karzai’s November 19 inauguration ceremony, meet with Afghanistan’s leadership, international partners and allies, US troops, staff in Provincial Reconstruction Teams, and Embassy staff.

BOISE – After Washington this year became the fifth state to endorse a big change in how the nation elects presidents – letting whoever wins the popular vote take the office – Idaho is poised to debate the same question. Nothing changes until enough states sign on to represent a majority of electoral votes; only about a quarter of them are on board so far. “We’re just waiting to see if there are ...