The video then features a clip from C-Span from August 2006 in which Emanuel is asked whether the program will be compulsory, to which he responds, "In a sense it's required of everybody, 18 to 25, three months, and at some point at that poi
I've often discussed the issue of the rights of lesbian “social mothers”–women who agreed to employ a sperm donor so that they could have children with their lesbian partners, who are the biological mothers.
I do believe that children fare bes
The U.S. downturn will be the longest in three decades, and the drought in consumer spending may be the worst ever, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
In this Fox News interview Gerald Celente predicts a depression greater than the one suffered by Americans in the 1930s. He goes on to predict that America will soon be called The First Undeveloped Country. Please watch this video
There's no doubt that a large majority of Americans believe we're on the wrong track. That's why the candidate demanding "change" won the election. It mattered not that the change offered was no change at all, only a change in t
We are likely to see a "relief rally" somewhere here into the end of the year, then a grueling 2-year+ crash much as happened in 1930-32, culminating with somewhere between a 75 and 90% loss in the major indices, essentially destroying...
A behind-the-scenes battle to take the reins of the Republican National Committee is taking off between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.
An absurd circular relationship: To finance the bailout, Washington must borrow from the banks, which are the recipients of the bailout. The US administration is financing its own indebtedness.
The Federal Reserve's role in the new rescue package for American International Group looks like a important step by the nation's central bank toward buying distressed assets, something it has tried to avoid doing throughout the financial cr
St. Louis County keeps election ballots in the courthouse attic. Anoka County keeps them locked in the basement. Hennepin County relies on its cities to keep ballots safe.
A fine introductory essay on left-libertarianism, and left-libertarian takes on corporatism, the alliance of big government and big business, class, and vulgar libertarian conflation of freed markets with actually-existing capitalism. Cover the world
Although the price tag on the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program is $700 billion, the full amount that the government has invested in its rescue effort for struggling financial institutions appears to be closer to $2.5 trillion.
A Deutsche Bank analyst on Monday downgraded shares of General Motors Corp. to sell from hold, saying the automaker was on the path to bankruptcy before the end of the year unless the U.S. government agrees to a bailout.
Kat Kanning called in reporting that the judge compared Lauren Canario to Carl Drega and sentenced her to the maximum sentence, 30 days in jail. She will be in Strafford County Jail. It’s unclear why the judge made such a comparison.
Memphis police identified the body of transgender woman Duanna Johnson lying in the street near Hollywood and Staten Avenue early this morning. Johnson was the victim of a Memphis police brutality case this summer when a video of former officer
US Special Operations Command secret military forces are receiving their first robotic whisper-mode helicopters. The you-never-saw-us-we-aren't-even-here brigade will receive 10 Boeing A160T "Hummingbird" droid kill-choppers
A City Council member from Jersey City was arrested over the weekend after patrons at a Northwest Washington nightclub complained that someone had urinated on them from the balcony, according to police and media reports.
Even as the company was pleading the federal government for another $40 billion dollars in loans, AIG sent top executives to a secret gathering at a luxury resort in Phoenix last week.
Wall Street got another dose of painful reality Tuesday and sent stocks diving as investors recognized that few industries are safe from the consumer spending slump — whether they're building homes, making cars or selling coffee. The Dow Jones in
The International Atomic Energy Agency has obtained evidence suggesting that documents which have been described as technical studies for a secret Iranian nuclear weapons-related research program may have been fabricated.
Obama’s aides continue to try to stifle hopes for the radical policy changes that were a cornerstone of his sweeping electoral victory, the surest sign thus far that little is going to change are reports that he may ask Secretary of Defense Robert Ga
Because if it's only Republicans who object to this militaristic scheme to solve the unemployment problem by outfitting the out-of-work with spiffy new uniforms, then we're really in a lot more trouble than even I imagined.
An announcement of the regulatory structure could come by the end of the week when President George W. Bush hosts a gathering of world leaders in Washington to discuss ways to fix the financial crisis, said one of the people who has read a draft of t
Markets have yet to ``bottom'' while bond markets will be ``terrible'' for the next decade, Rogers, chairman of Singapore- based Rogers Holdings, said at a conference in Seoul today. Economic ``problems'' may persist until 201
Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation's president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate t