Tag: politics
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Geithner’s dubious AIG cover up « naked capitalism
Let me add a few words to Yves’ last post because I don’t think she was explicit enough about what’s going on here. This was looting and a cover-up plain and simple. A quick review: Damaging e-mails have revealed that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged AIG to withhold crucial information about the deterioration of…
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Jack Webb gives Barack a father to son talk
Jack Webb (Dragnet) gives Barack a father to son talk. The President needed one of these talks thirty years ago.
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Doctors opposing health care bill jam town hall meeting | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Physicians jammed a town hall meeting in The Woodlands on Thursday, expressing fears about the cost and effectiveness of a health care reform bill that could come up for a vote in Congress as early as September. U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, hosted the meeting attended by about 90 physicians at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The…
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Nancy Pelosi: Town Hall Protesters ‘Carrying Swastikas’
via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzAi4vZqYI Editor: My guess is that the dems will salt some townhall meetings with a few swastikas to cover Nancy’s mouth. Its ashame that a debate has to devolve into this kind of name-calling. Of course, Nancy will avoid those swastika wearing unwashed masses with a fund raiser on her back lawn. The two-day “issues…
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CNSNews.com – Sotomayor Failed to Disclose to Senate Memo in Which She Argued Death Penalty Is Racist
CNSNews.com – The Judicial Confirmation Network JCN says Judge Sonia Sotomayor failed to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee a controversial document arguing that the death penalty is “racist” and a violation of the present “humanist” thinking of society. The 1981 memo, they say, should have been disclosed as required under Question 12 b of…
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Couple: County Trying To Stop Home Bible Studies – San Diego News Story – KGTV San Diego
Broyles said, “The county asked, Do you have a regular meeting in your home? She said, Yes. Do you say amen? Yes. Do you pray? Yes. Do you say praise the Lord? Yes.” The county employee notified the couple that the small bible study, with an average of 15 people attending, was in violation of…
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IBDeditorials.com: Michael Ramirez Editorial and Political Cartoons
IBDeditorials.com: Michael Ramirez Editorial and Political Cartoons .
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Pennsylvania Pie Fight: State Cracks Down on Baked Goods – WSJ.com
ROCHESTER, Pa. — On the first Friday of Lent, an elderly female parishioner of St. Cecilia Catholic Church began unwrapping pies at the church. Thats when the trouble started. A state inspector, there for an annual checkup on the churchs kitchen, spied the desserts. After it was determined that the pies were home-baked, the inspector…
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TheHill.com – With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise
A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay. Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and…
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UKs Brown: Now is the time to build global society
LONDON Reuters – The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britains Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday. In his annual speech at the Lord Mayors Banquet, Brown — who has spearheaded calls for the reform of international…
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Frank and Democrats want 25% cut in military during time of war
In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay. The military cuts…
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ABC News: Congressman’s $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress
West Palm Beach Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-FL), whose predecessor resigned in the wake of a sex scandal, agreed to a $121,000 payment to a former mistress who worked on his staff and was threatening to sue him, according to current and former members of his staff who have been briefed on the settlement, which involved…
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