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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more
  • Colombian Coffee Growers to Sue Cartoonist

    Monday, January 12, 2009
    Derogatory insinuations about Juan Valdez, the Colombian coffee industry’s mythical icon, have been a call to arms for the Colombia Coffee Growers Federation, which threatened to sue cartoonist Mike Peters for $20 million. The Valdez character was...   read more
  • New Rule Bars Strikes against GM

    Sunday, January 11, 2009
    In the recently released details of its $13.4 billion, 3-year loan to GM, the government included a condition permitting it to call in its loan and bankrupt GM, if “any labor union or collective bargaining unit shall engage in a strike or other wo...   read more
  • Too Big to Fail: Dean Baker

    Sunday, January 11, 2009
    In a recent article for the Boston Review, economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reexamines the way the debate over deregulation has been defined. He writes, “In general, political debates over regulatio...   read more
  • Director of National Intelligence: Who is Dennis Blair?

    Sunday, January 11, 2009
    Former Navy admiral Dennis Blair is no stranger to controversy, thanks to a career that has included water skiing behind a combat vessel, ignoring orders from civilian officials by offering  the Indonesian dictatorship military assistance without ...   read more
  • Council on Environmental Quality: Who is Nancy Sutley?

    Saturday, January 10, 2009
    Nancy Sutley’s selection as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality not only pleased environmentalists, but gay rights activists as well—thanks to Sutley’s “green” credentials and the fact that she is openly gay. Throughout her c...   read more
  • What is Israel Trying to Hide?

    Saturday, January 10, 2009
    Citing safety concerns, the Israeli military has barred foreign journalists’ access to Gaza, defying a mandate last week from the Israeli Supreme Court ordering that a small number of international journalists be allowed into Palestine. Yet despit...   read more
  • US Regains Lead as #1 Arms Supplier to Developing Countries

    Saturday, January 10, 2009
    The U.S. has reclaimed its preeminence as the leading arms supplier to developing nations in 2007, a position Russia had occupied since 2004. Arms transfer agreements totaled $60 billion in 2007, with $42.3 billion (70%) going to the developing wo...   read more
  • Public Could be Shut Out from 9/11 Trial

    Saturday, January 10, 2009
    In advance of the upcoming Guantánamo trial of six 9/11 conspirators, military judge Stephen R. Henley issued a protective order on December 19th which will allow classification of any information, including that already in the public domain, that...   read more
  • Blagojevich’s 19th Century Role Model

    Saturday, January 10, 2009
    The controversy surrounding embattled Governor Rod Blagojevich is nothing new for Illinois politics.  Five of the last 10 Illinois governors, including Blagojevich, faced criminal charges, but the tradition of paying for a Senate seat actually str...   read more
  • Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton

    Friday, January 09, 2009
    Hillary Clinton was the first First Lady to be elected to Congress and will be the first First Lady to serve in a cabinet position.   Born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, IL, Clinton was raised by her parents, Hugh Ellswort...   read more
  • Better Off Than 8 Years Ago? Don’t Even Ask

    Thursday, January 08, 2009
    While running for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Most Americans answered: No, and Reagan was elected one week later. As the era of George W. Bush draws to a close, the answer to a sim...   read more
  • Chair of the SEC: Who is Mary Schapiro?

    Thursday, January 08, 2009
    Mary L. Schapiro is Barack Obama’s choice to take over the Securities and Exchange Commission—a demoralized agency that failed repeatedly to head off financial disasters involving Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Bernard Madoff. Some observers co...   read more
  • TSA Settles in Arabic T-Shirt Case

    Thursday, January 08, 2009
    Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi-born U.S. legal permanent resident, won $120,000 in a court settlement with JetBlue and employees of the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) after being forced to cover up his T-shirt which said in both English a...   read more
  • Conservatives Wrong about New Deal: David Sirota

    Thursday, January 08, 2009
    In response to conservative economists’ claims that FDR’s New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression, two-time New York Times bestselling political commentator David Sirota reviewed detailed unemployment data (PDF) from the U.S. census to di...   read more
  • Bush Gives His Staff Jobs for Obama Era

    Thursday, January 08, 2009
    In a going away present to some of his most trusted aides, President Bush has appointed 45 individuals to positions that will expire in the midst of Barack Obama’s term, or afterwards. He has appointed 12 individuals to 5-year terms on the United ...   read more
  • Secretary of the Interior: Who is Ken Salazar?

    Wednesday, January 07, 2009
    After years of watching industry-friendly appointees of the Bush administration run roughshod over environmental concerns, conservationists had hoped Barack Obama’s election would bring a new day at the Department of the Interior. But the selectio...   read more
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