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Bush May Pass the Buck, All $350 Billion

December 19, 2008

The Bush administration has said that it may not go to Congress to ask for the remaining $350 Billion that Paulson wants.
The White House said it won’t necessarily ask Congress to release the second half of the $700 billion Trouble Asset Relief Program, suggesting that the decision will fall to President-elect Barack Obama.

However, Paulson wants [...]

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John McCain’s Keating 5 Role and the Ties that Bind

October 6, 2008

For those too young to remember the Keating 5 scandal that occurred during the Savings and Loan meltdown in the 1980’s, please visit Keating Economics.
There are many of us who remember the Keating 5, the Resolution Trust Corporation, and another interesting player in that scandal… Neil Bush, son of Bush 41 and brother of Bush [...]

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July 11: Week in Review

July 11, 2008

Talk about a week of ups and downs.  We’ve had another one.  So, what happened this week?
The FDA has warned us about eating certain types of tomatoes.  And, we took heed.  The tomato farmers have plowed under fields of tomatoes, acre after acre.  Now the FDA isn’t sure that the salmonella poisoning is a result [...]

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Seymour Hersh is Looking to the Next Battlefield

June 30, 2008

Let us hope that Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker is wrong, although records show that he has been right too many times for us to discount his latest assertion.

Hersh told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops [...]

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To Drill or Not to Drill? That is the Question

June 18, 2008

Lots of talk about the rising cost of a gallon of gas has forced the candidates to take a stand on offshore drilling.  Needless to say, as with the other issues, the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee have diametrically opposing positions.
McCain wants to drill all around our nation’s coastline.  Obama does not.  And, oh!  [...]

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The Supreme Court Finds the Constitution

June 12, 2008

Breaking News:  According to ABC News, The Supreme Court has determined that Guantanamo prisoners have the CONSTITUTIONAL right to challenge their confinement before federal judges. 
MSNBC reports that the 5-4 ruling was handed down this morning. 

The justices, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over [...]

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Gitmo Gotcha Started Today

June 5, 2008

The first military tribunal at Guantanamo began today.  To say it is the most hypocritical excuse for justice anyone in this nation has ever conceived is a gross understatement.  These proceedings are yet another blotch on the history on the United States of America.  Thank you, George Bush.
According to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in testimony [...]

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McCain, Bush and the GI Bill

May 27, 2008

Bush is against the bill.  That goes without saying.  Bush seems to be against almost everything that makes it from Congress to the White House these days.  But, surprising to some of us, McCain is against the present GI Bill.

McCain has defended his opposition to the bill that would expand education benefits for veterans, saying [...]

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To Talk to the Enemy or Not to Talk? That is the Question

May 27, 2008

To talk or not to talk?  That is the question. 
Barack Obama has stated that he would talk with anyone in an effort to break through the barriors that keep us isolated from our enemies.  Of course, his comment has been taken to task by the Republicans and Hillary Clinton.  Again, the spin tried to make [...]

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No-Bid Contractor KBR Responsible for Deaths of Soldiers… You Decide

May 3, 2008

KBR, one of those “in place” no bid contractors, and former subsidiary of Halliburton, denies responsibility for the electrocution of soldiers in Afghanistan and severe shocks in Iraq.
According to the NYT
One electrician warned his KBR bosses in his 2005 letter of resignation that unsafe electrical work was “a disaster waiting to happen.” Another said he [...]

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