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Live Blogging Petraeus
By David Swanson, http://betrayusreport.com Petreaus and Crocker are back for four hearings over two days. This is the first one. 9:35 This ain't gonna be good: Chairman Carl Levin just opened the hearing... ...
2008 PigBook released: Republicans top porkers
Citizens Against Government Waste 04/02/08 Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released the 2008 Congressional Pig Book, the latest installment in an 18-year exposé of pork-barrel spending…..... ...
I’m getting stimulated
No Force, No Fraud by Bob Smith 03/30/08 Last week, I mailed off my Federal tax return, sort of. It was an abbreviated 1040A, intended only to elicit my ‘Stimulus Payment’ from our beneficent government.... ...
Military Kin Struggle With Loss and a Windfall
Lisa W. Foderaro, reporting for The New York Times, writes, "For some relatives of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the money feels, at first, like an affront, as if the government were... ...
An Election Without Meaning
By Peter Phillips Will November 2008 bring a meaningful change to America? Will getting rid of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney without impeachment or indictment really make a difference? Will a 600... ...
Loophole Irks Contract Watchdogs
Lara Jakes Jordan, The Associated Press, says, "A multibillion-dollar loophole slipped into a proposed crackdown on contract fraud has drawn the ire of a key Republican senator and the government's top... ...
Vetoing History's Responsibility
The editors of The New York Times write: "President Bush's threat to veto a bill intended to improve health care for the nation's American Indians is both cruel and grossly unfair. Five years ago, the... ...
The foolishness of economic “stimulus”
Christian Science Monitor by Donald J. Boudreaux 01/24/08 A consensus is building that America’s economy is sliding — perhaps plummeting — into recession. In December the unemployment rate jumped to... ...
The Candidates Discover the Economy
The editors of The New York Times write, "The presidential candidates are only beginning to recognize what many voters have already figured out through painful, personal experience: the economy is in trouble... ...
What's Next for FISA?
Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium, writes: "The first year of the 110th Congress closed with a great deal of spilled blood, and few victories for liberals. In just the last weeks of the past session,... ...