The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t kno
The greatest area of danger here is that The Fed is in fact trying to catch not a falling knife but rather a falling piano. The idea that The Fed can prevent a debt deflation of this magnitude is pure folly, and increasing its leverage to 50:1
Yesterday, Barack Obama’s Change.gov site announced plans to require students to perform community service. Today, that post was changed and a host of comments appeared within the hour on our original post seeking to discredit DBKP. We provide the be
The sails are 30 meters long, covered with solar PV panels that will provide 5 percent of the ships' electricity and will harness enough wind to reduce fuel costs by 20 to 40 percent. The sails are controlled by a computer that angles them for ma
The law, which will take "money and manpower" to enforce, "is overly burdensome to the police officer and to the court system," State Police Lt. McDyer said. Supporters say police and prosecutors should stop "whining".
Several of the nation's biggest banks have failed or been absorbed by healthier institutions, leaving three giant "superbanks" with an unprecedented concentration of market power: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
Barack Obama has told Polish President Lech Kaczynski he will go ahead with plans to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe despite threats from Russia, Warsaw said on Saturday.
Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration
It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their co
What will it take for all those who are celebrating now to realize we have a one party political system consisting of democrats and republicans pretending to be a 2 party system?
Eagle Eye Publishers, the premier commercial source of government spending data since 1986, is making its wealth of contract, grant, loan, insurance and other federal government financial information available for free to the general public through
``The American taxpayer is entitled to know the risks, costs and methodology associated with the unprecedented government bailout of the U.S. financial industry,'' said Matthew Winkler, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
[And they already don't like what they see. Change?!] Change will be coming to Washington in January, but clues suggest Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter the political machinery that led us into war and economic turmoil.
As a sign of things to come, Obama has appointed a key figure in the Subprime mortgage mess, Rahm Emanuel, a former ethically challenged Clinton associate who sat on the board of Fannie Mac disregarding all calls for reform.
US President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was “unacceptable” and the Islamic Republic must stop supporting “terrorist organizations.” Obama, speaking at his first press conference since winning Tuesday’s presi
President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that the country is facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime and 'we're going to have to act swiftly to resolve it.' (Nov. 7) ('We Gotta' Do Something')
Stories about the formation of an Obama Youth seem to have been correct. Change.gov, the website of the “president-elect” has announced that middle school, high school and college students will be required to perform community service. Retirees will
"But he's our president-elect, and those positions that he holds that are contrary to Biblical teaching, I hope that God will change his heart," said Graham, who now heads the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation site OurVoteLive.org, which is recording complaints from voters across the country, has had more than 9,000 complaints of voting problems, including at least 500 reports with voting equipment.
"Wait a minute! What's the difference what he said? Bill-O the clown, you don't matter anymore! Bill Orely [intentional mispronunciation], today's worst person ... Who doesn't matter anymore ... In the world!"
Wearing joint US-Israeli label pin, Obama vowed to keep military action in mind for Iran, outdid Bush for pro-Israeli sentiment during June speech, Israeli papers hail “our man in the White House” following appointment of Emanuel
Change is coming to Washington, but it is difficult to decipher what form it will take. Early clues, however, suggest that Barack Obama’s administration will prove unlikely to alter the fundamental political machinery that has led us into war and eco