On Sunday, hundreds of angry homeowners ... protested outside Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s multi-million-dollar mansion to tell the wealthy finance czar how they really feel.
President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations. Just 3 Republicans helped pass the plan on a 61-37 vote and they're already signaling they'll play hardball to
The take home information, contrary to published position in far too many books that we are expected to rely on is that a fully developed bronze making culture, directly equivalent to the bronze making culture of Europe existed. Proving it is ultimat
The Second Amendment March is proud to announce that rock-n-roll legend and Second Amendment Activist Ted Nugent has enthusiastically agreed to perform and speak at the Second Amendment March in Spring 2010
A coalition is being assembled to march on Washington to deliver... a message that the Second Amendment is critical as the single right that allows Americans to ensure continuation of all of the others.
Wholesalers cut back on their inventories in December by the largest amount in 16 years, slashing stockpiles amid the deepening recession. The reduction means wholesalers ordered fewer new goods, leading to reduced production and potentially more job
That's not to say the package steers clear of waste or parochial interests. Obama played to such interests, speaking at one point as if he'd come to fill potholes. A look at Obama's claims on the bailout, and the news conference called to
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
Australian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists as the death toll from the nation's worst bushfires looked likely to top 200. The bushfires which swept through Victoria on Saturday nig
A media watchdog group is urging President Obama to end US military practice of detaining journalists without charges, and an investigation into killings of journalists by US forces. The detention of journalists without trial by US authorities in suc
Federal judges ordered California to release tens of thousands of inmates, up to a third of all prisoners, in the next 3 years to stop dangerous overcrowding. As many as 57,000 could be let go if the current population were cut by the maximum percent
Meanwhile "emotional viewing" could be another development in television technology, according to a report commissioned by the technology retailer Comet.
“The financial system is working against recovery, and that’s the dangerous dynamic we need to change,” Geithner said in excerpts of his prepared remarks for delivery today in Washington.
Forget Timothy Geithner – Wall Street trusts Meredith Whitney. The new Treasury secretary may be unveiling a financial rescue plan on Tuesday, but it’s the Oppenheimer analyst who’s got the street cred. If Whitney says that Geithner’s approach won’t
"... I want to be candid: this comprehensive strategy will cost money, involve risk, and take time. "We will have to adapt it as conditions change. We will have to try things we've never tried before. We will make mistakes. We will go t
But Rogers said Geithner, who was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, "has been dead wrong about everything for 15 years in a row," and so was President Barack Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers, who acted as Treasury
The unprecedented transfer of wealth from American citizens to the hands of few is a clear sign that government and the corporations that control it have become completely criminal and are without conscience.
Court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed’s genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, “is very far down the list of things they did,” the off
Hmmm let's see. We let executives rape the shareholders, pass out huge bonuses, use ridiculous amounts of leverage, and we let them stay in charge. Just how sane is that?
Increasingly it is becoming clear to market observers such as Nouriel Roubini, FT's Wolf, myself and others that the fact is that these firms are and have been bankrupt and you are conspiring with others to intentionally deceive the public by ref
The New Hampshire state legislature took an unbelievably bold step Monday by introducing a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government to completely totally void and warning that certain future acts will be viewed as a “breach of
Hackers broke into the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system last week, accessing the names and Social Security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees.
But we can say something. They targeted a particle size able to provide sufficient energy density to store enough energy to drive a light electric vehicle a distance of 300 kms. This implies that any improvement in particle size will improve energ
Congratulations! With your help Virginians had a Real ID Act victory last week, as both anti Real ID bills - H.B.1587 & S.B.1431 - were reported, unchanged, out of the House & Senate Transportation Committees. This means these committees heard you!
An Interior Department official caught taking bribes in exchange for arranging meetings between insurance brokers and government officials was swept up in an FBI corruption probe that began in a struggling New Jersey shore community near Atlantic Cit
Bush made more than 100 such end-of-term appointments to a constellation of presidential boards and panels, such as the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission. Like other presidents, he often
An individual successfully asserts his rights at an internal suspicionless Border Patrol checkpoint in New Mexico while being illegally detain by overzealous Border Patrol agents absent probable cause.