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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Meet Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea Clinton's Fiancé
Post Date: 2010-07-05 17:56:24 by sneakypete
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Marc Mezvinsky, 31, will marry Chelsea Clinton, 29, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in the summer of 2010. In this wedding, certain to be one of the social events of the season, the bride is more famous than the groom. But he also comes from a political family, one that is also no stranger to wrongdoing and controversy -- and he, too, has a strong-willed and well-known mother. Mezvinsky also has a successful Wall Street career. He currently works at the hedge fund G3 Capital and previously was an investment banker at the behemoth Goldman Sachs. "He's great. He's a great human being," Bill Clinton said of his ...
Democrats to punt on taxes
Post Date: 2010-07-01 10:16:58 by Badeye
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Democrats to punt on taxes By Alexander Bolton - 07/01/10 06:00 AM ET Democratic leaders are likely to punt the task of renewing Bush-era tax cuts until after the election. Voters in November’s midterms will thus be left without a clear idea of their future tax rates when they go to the polls. Some Democrats say Congress should not take up a package to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts until President Barack Obama’s debt commission makes its report. “I think it’s likely to be pushed off until after the election and be part of an overview that comes with the recommendations of the debt commission,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.). “I’d like this ...
Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses Holder of Dropping New Black Panther Case for Political Reasons
Post Date: 2010-06-30 12:56:44 by Badeye
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Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses Holder of Dropping New Black Panther Case for Political Reasons Published June 30, 2010 Attorney General Eric Holder speaks, Friday, June 11, 2010, at the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse in Atlanta. (AP) A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration's handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for political reasons. J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger, also accuses Deputy Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath to Congress about the circumstances surrounding ...
Largest skimmer in the world must be deemed ‘effective’ by the federal government before it’s allowed to help with oil clean-up [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-30 10:00:27 by Badeye
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Largest skimmer in the world must be deemed ‘effective’ by the federal government before it’s allowed to help with oil clean-up By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller | Published: 1:51 AM 06/30/2010 | Updated: 4:00 AM 06/30/2010 The world's largest skimmer known as 'A Whale' The largest skimming ship in the world — known as an “A Whale” — is expected to arrive in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, but will be prevented from contracting with BP to help clean up the oil spill until the federal government decides that the vessel is “effective.” The Coast Guard will not clear the Taiwan-owned ship – which is reportedly the length of 3 ...
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS POLL: SARAH PALIN BEST FOR ISRAEL IN 2012
Post Date: 2010-06-29 13:36:25 by Skip Intro
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ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS POLL: SARAH PALIN BEST FOR ISRAEL IN 2012 Due in no small part to her strong support of Israel, at a time when Barack Obama is actively working against them, readers, voting in an online poll sponsored by Arutz Sheva, the Israel National News, overwhelmingly chose Sarah Palin as their preferred Republican candidate in 2012. This squares with a report that Peter Beinart filed earlier in his magazine, where he intimated that an Obama regime official told him that the Netanyahu administration was “waiting for President Palin.” In this unscientific polling, Sarah receives 56.3 % of the vote, with Mike Huckabee coming in a distant second with 35.6% and Mitt ...
President Obama's aide failed to disclose $40K payout
Post Date: 2010-06-28 23:40:28 by WhiteSands
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President Barack Obama’s political director failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House. Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House. In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be disclosed, Gaspard checked a box indicating that he had nothing to ...
Right-Wing Website Hoped Senator Byrd Would Die To Stop Health Care Reform
Post Date: 2010-06-28 07:33:47 by Jethro Tull
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They’re lucky there’s a First Amendment. It was bad enough that Senator Tom Coburn asked for prayers that a Democratic senator would be unable to vote for cloture early Monday morning. Bob Owens(r), who calls himself and his site “Confederate Yankee” headlined a post “All I Want Is A Byrd Dropping For Christmas”.Bahaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......
The Politics of Panic
Post Date: 2010-06-25 16:41:45 by Badeye
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The Politics of Panic By: Bob Owens Special to The Examiner 06/25/10 4:20 PM EDT Democrats in the House and Senate have colluded to push an expansive financial "reform" bill they don't even understand. Lawmakers pulled an all-nighter, wrapping up their work at 5:39 a.m. -- more than 20 messy, mind-numbing, exhaustive hours after they began Thursday morning. "It's a great moment. I'm proud to have been here," said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has ...
Navy exaggerations damage Ill. Senate candidate
Post Date: 2010-06-25 12:48:06 by go65
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Republican Mark Kirk has stepped on a political landmine of his own creation, leaving him as damaged as his Democratic opponent in the race for an Illinois Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Kirk, a 21-year veteran in the Navy Reserve, was caught exaggerating his military record. He claimed an award he didn't win. He mentioned serving in overseas conflicts while he was safely in the United States. He stretched the facts when talking about combat and coming under fire. And his troubles don't end there: Even his references to being a teacher are being questioned. Two months ago, it was Kirk's Democratic opponent, Alexi Giannoulias, who was ...
Report: Villaraigosa got 50K in tickets
Post Date: 2010-06-25 10:22:36 by Badeye
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Report: Villaraigosa got 50K in tickets By: Andy Barr June 25, 2010 07:37 AM EDT Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has reportedly accepted tickets to 80 events over the last 5 years for which he did not pay or report as gifts. The story was first reported by L.A. Weekly on Thursday and shows that the mayor’s public schedule says he attended the events, but that he did not list having paid for them or having accepted them as gifts in financial disclosures. Amid questions over his having attended the events – only one of which Villaraigosa disclosed – the mayor’s office sent a letter listing the prices, if known, of the tickets he received. A conservative estimate ...
Another Day Another Ethics Issue For Palin
Post Date: 2010-06-25 08:58:52 by war
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An investigator has determined former Gov. Sarah Palin's legal defense fund broke state ethics law and said Palin has agreed to settle the matter by having the trust return more than $386,000 to donors. Tim Petumenos, an Anchorage attorney hired by the state Personnel Board to investigate, said Thursday the legal defense fund violated state law because it "constituted using public office to obtain private benefit." He said the fund, which was set up while Palin was still governor, inappropriately said it was the "official website" of Palin, and made reference to her work in public office. Petumenos upheld an ethics complaint that was filed 15 months ago against the ...
Inmates Get Homebuyer Tax Credits: Gov't Report
Post Date: 2010-06-23 13:03:30 by Badeye
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Inmates Get Homebuyer Tax Credits: Gov't Report Published: Wednesday, 23 Jun 2010 | 9:52 AM ET By: AP Nearly 1,300 prison inmates wrongly received more than $9 million in tax credits for homebuyers despite being locked up when they claimed they bought a home, a government investigator reported Wednesday. The investigator said 241 of the inmates were serving life sentences. In all, more than 14,100 taxpayers wrongly received at least $26.7 million in tax credits that were meant to boost the nation's slumping housing markets, said the report by J. Russell George, the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration. Some taxpayers received the credit for homes ...
Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly
Post Date: 2010-06-22 13:14:12 by Badeye
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Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly Jun 22 12:37 PM US/Eastern By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A top House Democrat said Tuesday that tax increases will eventually be necessary to address the nation's mounting debt, raising a difficult election-year issue as Democrats fight retain control of Congress. In the near term, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer raised the possibility that Congress will only temporarily extend middle-class tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. He pointedly suggested that making them permanent would be too costly. Tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush are scheduled to expire at the end of ...
Soro's Oil Spill Payoff
Post Date: 2010-06-22 09:44:26 by Badeye
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Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market. The company was seeking to lease all its vessels. “If the moratorium on deep-water drilling is not lifted, 33 semi-submersible rigs and/or drill ships affected will simply go to other countries where they will be well received, such as Brazil,” Cliffe F. Laborde and J. Peter Laborde, Jr. wrote in a June 4 letter to their Louisiana Senators. Could this be merely a happy coincidence for George Soros, the major financial backer of ...
By the Numbers: Oil Leak Wouldn't Fill Superdome
Post Date: 2010-06-22 00:33:17 by Mad Dog
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Overwhelmed and saddened by the gargantuan size of the Gulf oil spill? A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the environmental catastrophe in perspective. Viewing it through some lenses, it isn't that huge. The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months. On a more human scale, the spill seems more daunting. Take the average-sized living room. The amount of oil spilled would fill 9,200 of them. Since the BP oil rig exploded on April 20, about 126.3 million gallons of oil has gushed into the Gulf. That calculation is based on the higher end of the government's range of barrels leaked per ...
Afghan Security Firms Linked To Taliban Allegedly Extorting Money From U.S.-Paid Contractors
Post Date: 2010-06-21 23:44:29 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Criminal investigators are examining allegations that Afghan security firms have been extorting as much as $4 million a week from contractors paid with U.S. tax dollars and then funneling the spoils to warlords and the Taliban. If the allegations are true, the U.S. would be unintentionally financing the enemy and undermining international efforts to stabilize the country. The payments reportedly end up in insurgent hands through a $2.1 billion Pentagon contract to transport food, water, fuel and ammunition to American troops stationed at bases across Afghanistan. To ensure safe passage through dangerous areas, the trucking companies make payments to local security firms ...
Rubio faces foreclosure on Tally home; his campaign says it's resolved
Post Date: 2010-06-21 20:02:46 by go65
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TALLAHASSEE — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is facing foreclosure on a Tallahassee house after missing five months of mortgage payments, according to a lawsuit filed in Leon County Circuit Court. But Rubio's campaign spokesman said Rubio and David Rivera, a U.S. House candidate from Miami who co-owns the home with Rubio, have paid $9,200 owed to Deutsche Bank and the foreclosure has been withdrawn. No documents in the court records on Thursday indicated that the foreclosure had been shelved. Phone calls to Rivera and a bank attorney were not returned. "It's been resolved," Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos said. Rubio's personal spending has been an ...
Ambush Journalism — the 19th-Century Version
Post Date: 2010-06-21 11:08:15 by Badeye
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Ambush Journalism — the 19th-Century Version John Steele Gordon - 06.21.2010 - 10:36 AM The Hill is reporting that members of Congress are getting increasingly fed up with “ambush interviews” by “guerrilla-style reporters, bloggers, and campaign operatives who ambush them on video to provoke an aggressive or outraged response.” Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., is the latest to run afoul of this tactic and had to apologize after he lost his temper when journalists (or whoever they were) confronted him on the street in Washington but refused to identify themselves. With most cell phones now capable of recording videos, and with actual video cameras getting smaller, ...
Mohegan Sun Casino Owners Received $54 Million In Stimulus Money (Chris Dodd)
Post Date: 2010-06-17 14:54:52 by Badeye
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Mohegan Sun Casino Owners Received $54 Million In Stimulus Money Indian Tribe That Runs Connecticut Casino Earning $1 Billion-Plus Per Year Got Government Check With the support of Sen. Chris Dodd, D.-Conn., the federal government has awarded $54 million to Connecticut's politically well-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which operates one of the highest grossing casinos in the U.S. The Mohegan tribe, which owns the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., has been awarded a $54 million loan from federal stimulus funds. The tribe runs the sprawling Mohegan Sun casino, halfway between New York City and Boston, which earned more than $1.3 billion in gross revenues in 2009. Each tribe ...
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
Post Date: 2010-06-14 13:28:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals. On top of that, the oil giant has ...
Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:35:07 by Badeye
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Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Lorraine Woellert and John Gittelsohn June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history. Fannie and Freddie, now 80 percent owned by U.S. taxpayers, already have drawn $145 billion from an unlimited line of government credit granted to ensure that home buyers can get loans while the private housing-finance industry is moribund. That ...
Long Hot Summer Begins: Democrat Congressman Attacks Student
Post Date: 2010-06-14 07:44:48 by Happy Quanzaa
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Maybe it is my Catholic upbringing, but I’ve always been cursed with a bit too much empathy. It is often difficult to witness people bearing the full weight of the consequences of their decisions, even when it is richly deserved. (And, in the case of House Democrats few have ever been more deserving of reaping everything they’ve sown.) We’re human, after all, and witnessing people on the cusp of realizing that they’ve lost everything can be difficult. Last week, Democrat Congressman Bod Etheridge (D-NC2) attended a fundraiser headlined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was asked by some students on the street whether he supported the “Obama Agenda.” He didn’t ...
Experts review S.C. Senate ballots (Senate-Gate?)
Post Date: 2010-06-11 16:20:35 by go65
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The campaign of defeated Democratic Senate candidate Vic Rawl has assembled a team of national academic experts to review Tuesday’s perplexing South Carolina primary results that propelled a virtually unknown, underfunded and unemployed candidate to the party’s nomination over a veteran officeholder and public official. Rawl campaign manager Walter Ludwig tells POLITICO three different teams of experts in election data analysis are combing through the results in the state’s 46 counties and already turning up some eye- opening trend lines. The review is in response to the shocking victory by 32-year-old Alvin Greene, who, despite never giving a campaign speech or running any ...
The Alien in the White House
Post Date: 2010-06-09 23:05:46 by TLBSHOW
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The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president's earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill. There should have been nothing puzzling about his response to anyone who has paid even modest critical attention to Mr. Obama's pronouncements. For it was clear from the first that this president—single-minded, ever-visible, confident in his program for a reformed America saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain qualities citizens have until now taken for granted in their ...
Sen. Lincoln's missteps put her at risk in today's Ark. runoff (Hopefully the same thing will happen to John McCain)
Post Date: 2010-06-08 19:49:54 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Sen. Lincoln's missteps put her at risk in today's Ark. runoff By Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 8, 2010; 1:52 PM Blanche Lincoln's predicament in Arkansas can be attributed to any number of factors: an angry electorate determined to shake up the status quo; a sense that she has spent too much time in Washington and lost touch with her farming roots; the fact that moderates just aren't in fashion these days. But some of Lincoln's deepest wounds are self-inflicted. After years of cautious maneuvering, the Democratic senator committed a series of blunders that riled labor unions and other liberal groups and that added new obstacles -- ...
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