10 Inconvenient Truths for Tax Day Crooks and Liars By Jon Perr Apr 15, 2010 With Tax Day again upon us, two story lines will predictably dominate the media coverage on April 15th. In their perpetual war on taxes, conservatives will claim that rates are too high even as those Americans who receive tax credits […]
Former N.S.A. Official Is Indicted in Leak Case The New York Times By SCOTT SHANE April 15, 2010 WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual legal action against an alleged leaker of government secrets, a federal grand jury has indicted a former senior official on charges of providing classified information to a newspaper reporter in hundreds […]
Back in 2002, around the first anniversary of 9/11, out of the blue, the President and most of his cabinet started ranting about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. It made absolutely no sense [it still doesn’t]. I had no idea what they were talking about. Next thing we all knew, Powell was shaming himself at the […]
In my opinion, this is the eye of the storm – the Exotic Financial Instruments called Derivatives: Sen. Lincoln forges ahead on financial derivatives reform Washington Post By David Cho and Brady Dennis April 14, 2010 An influential senator is advocating new regulations that would force the nation’s largest banks to stop trading nearly all […]
Uninformed Limbaugh Wonders ‘Where Was The Union’ At Non-Union Mine Disaster ThinkProgressApril 13, 2010 Last Friday, Rush Limbaugh asked why a coal miner union didn’t protect the 29 miners who were killed when Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, WV, exploded under unsafe conditions: Was there no union responsibility for improving mine safety? […]
Georgia on My Mind New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN April 11, 2010 As we look for ways to prevent future financial crises, many questions should be asked. Here’s one you may not have heard: What’s the matter with Georgia? I’m not sure how many people know that Georgia leads the nation in bank failures, […]
Sinn Féin denounces Real IRA bombing of M15 headquarters guardian.co.uk by Henry McDonald April 12, 2010 The remains of a car bomb outside the British army base Palace Barracks in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin has denounced the Real IRA for the bomb attack on MI5’s headquarters claiming that the dissidents cannot set back the […]
Occasionally, it all works out for the best By: AttaturkFiredoglakeApril 12, 2010 … It turns out it was a bad weekend for Fred Phelps and the Westboro Church of Hate. …the church sent a small group to Charleston, W. Va., to highlight their belief that the 25 miners killed in a recent cave-in were killed […]
Lack of Vatican communications strategy on scandal baffles pope’s U.S. defenders Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein April 11, 2010 The Vatican spokesman doesn’t regularly discuss the clergy sex-abuse scandal with the pope. Its communications council’s next meeting is in February [on the agenda: "the Internet"]. For American defenders of Pope Benedict XVI, it has been […]
Reading along about the Republicans’ meetings in New Orleans, I found few articles that I could finish. They were too monotonous, boring. I guess I thought the Party of "No" was something of a Democrat Talking Point, but if there were any things said in the Big Easy other that "Obama is bad," I couldn’t […]