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Hypocritical posturing by Obama over AIG bonuses
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers at a cost of $170 billion, is... ...
Beware of “let government do it”
Orange County Register by Steve Greenhut Those of us who advocate freedom and capitalism run up against a difficult problem. Even though these ideas, hampered as they have always been by government intervention,... ...
Federal Budget Deficit Reaches $765B In 5 Months
Foreclosure Filings in U.S. Jump 30%, Thwart Prevention Effort Foreclosure filings in the U.S. climbed 30 percent in February from a year earlier as the worsening economy thwarted efforts by the government... ...
OLC authorized Pentagon to ignore Bill of Rights on US soil
Washington Independent 03/02/09 In an October 2001 memo released today, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president... ...
What About Bagram?
By William Fisher In a brief filing in federal court last week, lawyers from Obama's Department of Justice said they would adopt the same position taken by the George W. Bush administration - that detainees... ...
Obama’s budget includes new bailout, $1.75 trillion deficit
Obama to spend $200b on war in 2009 President Barack Obama intends to ask the US Congress for more than USD 200 billion to cover the country's war spending. http://www.pres stv.ir/detail.aspx?id=8683 8&sectionid=3510203... ...
Obama inherited a fiscal disaster, now what?
Christian Science Monitor by US Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) 02/18/09 Few Americans have any idea how bad the financial problems are that President Obama inherited from the Bush administration. Never mind... ...
How Banks Are Worsening the Foreclosure Crisis
Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Robert Berner, Business Week: "The bad mortgages that got the current financial crisis started have produced a terrifying wave of home foreclosures. Unless the foreclosure... ...
America’s shame: Can Jim Webb fix the prison gulag?
AlterNet by Katrina vanden Heuvel 02/16/09 Our criminal justice system is broken. The U.S. represents 5 percent of the world’s population but accounts for nearly 25 percent of its prison population.... ...
Deficit Nonchalance
By Paul Craig Roberts The fiscal year 2009 federal budget deficit that Obama is inheriting, and adding to, will be ten times larger in absolute terms than Reagan's biggest and a much larger share of... ...