It has been clear since August that Rahm has been actively undermining Craig and Holder’s efforts to hew to the rule of law. Doing so, in fact, with the guy who lost the election in 2008, John McCain, who still behaves at every turn like someone tryi
Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday.
If the government is unable to resurrect tax withholdings to historical levels before the interest rate on the $7.9 tillion in marketable debt starts climbing, call it a ballgame.
In part two of On The Edge, Ellen Brown explains how we will be forced to save through something called the Mandatory Savings Tax. We will have no control over this or be able to access (our) account. Listen closely at 49 seconds in part 2.
The White House is considering a new policy that would give an advantage in bids for billions in government contracts to companies that pay workers "living wages" and offer generous benefits.
WND has learned the "living wage" campaign has lon
Americans realize that -$20.8 billion will certainly not cover $5.3 trillion in actual deposits that can be redeemed at any given time! That is the psychology of our current banking system. As long as people believe the wizard behind the curtain...
James David Manning, PhD, speaks about how half of the Arizona Legislature wants Barack Hussein (Long Legged Mack Daddy Obama) to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election....
Through this voluntary act of blinding, the Obama gang will manage to save all of two million dollars a year, which in Pentagon parlance hardly qualifies as “budget dust.” Lost will be a reckoning of how the country is measuring up on the economic fr
Just when you thought policy-making couldn't get more bizarre...the President wants to revisit a disastrous economic idea that failed when it was tried in the 1970s.
Industry indicators deteriorated nearly across the board. The FDIC said loan losses for U.S. banks climbed for the 12th straight quarter, while the total loan balances for U.S. banks continued to fall.
The stuff posted at the White House site is nothing but propaganda fluff. It has nothing but nonsense happy talk, it's sort of like a McDonald's Happy Meal, except it is aimed at adults. Eat your french fries and shut up.
Seeking to revive his stalled health-care legislation, President Barack Obama is proposing a new idea to address health costs, giving the federal government authority to block insurers from making premium rate increases, reports WSJ.
“we don’t dare put out a report before Election Day or it’ll be total cremation and we’ll have to move to the top of Mount Somewhere -- Erskine and I -- somewhere living up there like hermits.” Senator Alan Simpson
Midwest about to see a massive wave of bank closings? That is apparently what the FDIC is expecting. The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liquidating assets..
Vice President Joe Biden belittled Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's commitment to fighting terrorism as either "misinformed or he is misinforming" and said Iraq wasn't worth "the horrible price" paid.
“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
Indeed, even adding an average of 95,000 jobs each month, unemployment is likely to remain around 10 percent through this year and not fall below 6 percent until 2015.
A DOJ job listing reveals that its Civil Rights Division is seeking 10 "experienced" trial attorneys for its Voting Section in Washington, DC and is encouraging "qualified applicants with...mental retardation" and "mental illness,"
"He needs a dramatic gesture to change the public perception of him as a light-weight, bumbling ideologue, preferably in an arena where the stakes are high, where he can take charge...
This amounts to a total of $6.3 trillion in liabilities which should be counted toward the budget. And yet, oddly, the error-checker made this omission, a number which written out looks as follows $6,264,000,000,000.00
The $8 billion in stimulus cash awarded to 13 high-speed rail corridors across the country may seem like a windfall for advocates, but there's a catch: The money isn't enough to finish any of the major projects. State coffers are dry and federal spen
The budget plan calls for nearly $1 trillion in tax increases on upper-income families—largely through allowing Bush tax cuts to expire. Banks, bankers and multinational corporations would face new fees and levies.
What started out as a case of The Emperor's New Clothes now has America looking like the world's biggest nudist colony, with everyone in the long chain of power and authority admiring each other's splendid new (imagined) pimp suits.