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The President's Cynical Budget War
The New York Times: "President Bush's lame-duck attempt to repair the Republican Party's threadbare fiscal reputation is an increasingly reckless game. In the latest exercise of irresponsibility for political... ...
Why Audit & Recount Laws Must be Legislated
Connecticut provides a new example of why election audit and recount procedures need to be legislated. Connecticut races that are to be recounted are exempt by law from manual audits. Yet the CT Secretary... ...
Report Refutes "Urgency" of War Funding
Truthout's Maya Schenwar reports: "despite the Bush administration's warnings renewed Iraq funding is immediately necessary, a November Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, obtained by Truthout,... ...
US admissions of Iraqi refugees drop again despite vows to boost numbers
The United States admitted only 362 Iraqi refugees in November, almost 100 fewer than in October, and far less than half the number it needs per month to meet a goal of 12,000 by the end of this budget... ...
Bush, While Citing Threats, to Cut Anti-Terror Funds
The Associated Press has obtained budget documents which show that the Bush administration intends to drastically cut funding for counterterrorism operations across the country. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California)... ...
Dollar’s fall collapses the empire
CounterPunch by Paul Craig Roberts 11/07/07 The macho super patriots who support the Bush regime still haven’t caught on that US superpower status rests on the dollar being the reserve currency, not... ...
Conservatives too busy for hearing on Iraq war's cost
The House Budget Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony regarding the CBO's estimate that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may total $2.4 trillion. Only one Republican member of the committee... ...
Senate Reverses Bush's Budget Cuts
Andrew Taylor, reporting for The Associated Press, writes, "Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush's... ...
If you really want to reduce spending, you must dismantle the overseas empire
Time To Choose By Charley Reese Most politicians, when they talk about reducing spending, chatter on about cutting waste and fraud. That's OK, but it's a mere nick on the federal budget. If you really... ...
President Bush Asks For $46 Billion For Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
The figure, which Bush was expected to announce later Monday at the White House, brings to $196.4 billion the total requested by the administration for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere for... ...