They call it the Ben Nelson rally. When the Democratic senator from Nebraska joined Republicans in delaying a financial reform bill on Monday, he gained some new friends and fought for the interests of an old one – Warren Buffett

Don't situations like these past few days really sort out who your real friends are and who the fair weather friends are? You also find out those whom you thought were friends but turned out to be enemies, through automatic assumptions about you and by the little snide asides by email to third parties. To those true friends - thank you so much. You possibly think that your words of support ar...

I suppose if I was a really serious political blogger I wouldn’t link to stories like this: The likely cause was eventually established – he had apparently been drinking with friends, and had passed out. His friends had decided it...

Whist at the Conservative Party Conference I joined the Conservative Friends of Israel; something I have been meaning to do some time, but never got around to it. To find out more about their excellent work, click HERE.

Obama's team sent out this message to supporters last night. Its a really innovative use of advocacy in Facebook networks Dear friends, Tuesday is the most important election of our lifetimes. Let's make sure everyone on Facebook gets to the polls on election day by making sure our friends do, and that their friends do, and their friends, and their friends...you get the idea. Donate your...

The US senator leading the effort to pass a financial reform bill said he has reached an impasse with his Republican counterpart and will begin drafting new legislation to be considered later this month

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Troutie's avatar Tom Paine writes of real friendships and online friendships. We certainly need a way in English to distinguish real friends from "blog friends," "Facebook friends," "LinkedIn" or "Second Life" friends. While this holds water, especially in Second Life where nothing is as it seems, I do think that blog friendships do not always have to end in grief. Through unfortunate circums...

The Chamber was crowded with MPs who had come to witness the macabre spectacle of a ghost returning from beyond the political grave. At 10.15 p.m. Gordon Brown (Lab, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) slipped in behind the Speaker's chair and joined the doughnut of faithful friends, and embarrassed ex-friends, awaiting him on the Labour benches.

The prospects for passage of sweeping financial reform legislation have improved recently as negotiations over the bill enter the final stretch, senior officials in the Obama administration said