The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules so health officials can respond more quickly to the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United
President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.
Lecture by investigative journalist and senior editor of The New American magazine, William F. Jasper on the threat from the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This so-called "free trade" arrangement would actually amalgamate all the na
Law Professor Richard Epstein is interviewed by Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson regarding strong-armed legislation pushed by Big Labor's politicians.
Pretty funny because I thought obama wasn't going to allow all those lobbyists in the first place so duh SEIU. Do you think they will ever figure it out?
But unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that manage electronic health records also have access to that data, and are reselling the information as a commodity.
Drugmakers' victories in Washington could keep health costs high, trade office warns
The pharmaceutical industry spent $110 million in just the first half of 2009 in its efforts to influence health care reform, part of a booming lobbying effort th
If President Obama signs a “global warming” treaty at the United Nations’ “Climate Conference” in Copenhagen this December; and if the U.S. Senate ratifies it, will it become part of the supreme Law of the Land?
Why Make Money through Commercial Banking when you can become a taxpayer backed Investment Bank. How JP Morgan Really made the $3.6 Billion in Q3 Profits.
People love to beat up on the NAR, which has never seen a housing report it didn't like. And they usually have good reason to do soOn Friday, for example, the NAR went bananas about seasonally adjusted September home sales, which most people agree we
THE Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce is openly canvassing an economic upheaval that would dwarf the current global financial crisis, triggered by the US defaulting on its sovereign debt within the next few years.
National People's Action Network has put out an email reporting that 10,000 people have signed up to protest this weekend at the American Bankers Association conference in Chicago.
Some of the most prominent names in national Republican Party politics are lining up against the GOP nominee in a key upstate New York House special election, the latest being former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who weighed in Friday.
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The subpoena will ask the lender to fork over documents relating to its “Friends of Angelo” program – named for CEO Angelo Mozilo, who allegedly offered favorable mortgage rates to persons of influence.
The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next 6 months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it. This decision is about when to pull out $1 trillion that’s propping up the U.S. banking system. And it will be F
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has now spent more of his own money than any other individual in United States history in the pursuit of public office. $85 million on his latest re-election campaign, on pace to spend $140 million before the election on Nov.
America's strongest economies have one thing in common—home prices that never got too hot or too cold.
Home prices in metros such as San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Little Rock, Ark., and Baton Rouge, La., remained steady throug
It's a big number that only tells part of the story. The number of banks that have failed so far this year topped 100 on Friday – hitting 106 by the end of the day – the most in nearly two decades. But the trouble in the banking system from bad loan
This mythic dream has sold well on the Arab street, as did the dreams of Nazism in prewar Germany. As a dream, the fundamental contradictions remain in the shadows and adherents can proceed with the task of building the movement. This had gone well
Phoenix (October 23, 2009) – H1N1 Vaccine Clinics for HIGH RISK Individuals only, Saturday, October 24, 2009. PHOENIX: The Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH), Mollen Immunizations Clinics, CIGNA and the Scottsdale Healthcare pediatri
“Freedom is not free” is a common phrase found in songs, in speeches, and on ribbons, and it’s the inscription inlaid where the walls of the Korean War Veterans Memorial join...
Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said as they struggled to finish work on the mea
Democratic leaders moved on Friday to build support among the elderly for a massive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, saying the measure would immediately start closing a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage.
The coverage gap, the so-c
For the first time, sophisticated U.S. military surveillance drones capable of carrying missiles have begun patrolling waters off Somalia in hopes of stemming rising piracy.
Three ships have been seized in a week off Africa's lawless eastern coast
Top NATO officials suggested they support Afghanistan commander Gen. McChrystal's call for a bigger counterinsurgency strategy in that war, but said they may send more troops only after they know how the administration intends to proceed there.
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