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Big government responsible for high prices
The Free Liberal by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) 05/09/08 In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts... ...
Will taxpayers be on the hook for subprime crisis?
Christian Science Monitor 05/08/08 With a nationwide housing crisis far from over, the risk of future mortgage losses is rapidly shifting from the private sector toward government — and potentially US... ...
Matters of Political Inconvenience
Simona Perry, for Truthout: "For 15 years, the non-profit PEER has been working on behalf of employees from federal, state and local governments in cases of whistleblower retaliation, scientific fraud... ...
Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in US Custody
Nina Bernstein, of The New York Times: "Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and... ...
The Last Roundup
By Christopher Ketcham For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack. Is it also compiling a... ...
High gas prices: Fuel for thought
Fox News/Heritage by Ben Lieberman 05/02/08 When it comes to soaring gasoline prices, we need a federal government that does less. Less contributing to the problem, that is. As lawmakers and presidential... ...
Resident objects to cellphone towers in West End
A West End tenant has written to Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan to object to the installation of seven cellphone-transmission antennas on the roof of her building. In her April 24 letter to Sullivan, Tina... ...
Another damaging FBI inspector general report on the bureau’s abuse of its expanded authorities
Heat-seeking missives In These Times by Brian Beutler 04/29/08 There’s a move afoot on Capitol Hill to rein in some of the vast powers conferred upon government investigators by the USA PATRIOT Act,... ...
GOP Objects to Bill Allowing Recounts
Ben Adler, of The Politico, writes: "Voting rights activists who hoped the federal government would help local governments pay for paper trails and audits for electronic voting machines have gone from... ...
Investigators: Millions in Iraq Contracts Never Finished
Hope Yen, of The Associated Press, reports: "Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including... ...