Posts tagged government
Saul Friedman: Obama and Jobs–He Should Look to FDR
Aug 29th
Judging by his record of job creation, which has been rather benign during the worst employment drought since the Great Depression, it should be clear by now that Barack Obama is no Franklin Roosevelt. Although he admires the Roosevelt legacy, he seems to have learned too little from history
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Loading ...Grocer Urges Gulf Coast Shrimp On Customers — Buyer Beware?
Aug 27th
Apparently, the Harris Teeter grocery store chain has something called the “Fresh Catch Club,” and yesterday, its members received an email, flagged by Sarabeth Guthberg at 1115.org , that read, in part: This week’s Fresh Catch feature item is fresh wild caught 13-17ct Head-On Gulf White Shrimp, harvested from the crystal clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Murrells Inlet – God’s Little Secret
Aug 23rd
By Nancy Morgan Fifteen miles south of America’s most popular golfing destination is a little village time seems to have forgotten. Murrells Inlet.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Top Dems Break With Treasury Over Fannie, Freddie Losses
Aug 21st
Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to the White House Friday, demanding the Federal Housing Finance Administration [FHFA] use all the powers at its disposal to recover some of the roughly $150 billion taxpayers lost to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through bad loans purchased from private banks. The missive to President Obama comes just a week after Frank told HuffPost Hill the mortgage giants are all but obsolete: “A year from now, there won’t be a Fannie and Freddie.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Leon T. Hadar: It’s New York, Not Jerusalem! How About Ending This Crazy Religious War
Aug 21st
As a non-practicing Jew growing up in the secular city of Tel-Aviv in Israel I recall the many times that my friends and I were complaining that it was too bad that Israel was so much “not like America” when it came to the relationship between religion and state.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Third World America’ Step 3: Build Your Financial Literacy
Aug 20th
The following excerpt was adapted from Arianna’s new book, Third World America . Links to the organizations Arianna describes — in addition to other helpful financial resources — follow. In April 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation for National Financial Literacy Month.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Third World America’ Step 5: Use Your Skills, Time, Or Money To Help Others
Aug 20th
In the final section of Third World America , Arianna writes about the stories of compassion and involvement that she discovered taking place all across the country — stories that ultimately left her feeling very hopeful. In the excerpt below, she describes the work of Annette Arca and Seth Reams, two individuals who found ways to help others despite facing significant challenges of their own.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...John R. MacArthur: Of the IRA and the Afghan War
Aug 20th
SAG HARBOR, N.Y.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lloyd Chapman: Jobless Claims Soar as Obama Continues to Shortchange Small Business
Aug 20th
I was talking to a friend’s 8-year-old son the other day. I asked him, “If you were the President and wanted to stimulate the economy and create jobs, and you knew small business created 100 percent of net new jobs, how much of the stimulus money would you give small businesses?” The boy thought about the question for about three seconds and responded, “100 percent.” President Barack Obama should put this kid on his team of economic advisers. It seems to me this 8-year-old boy knows more about creating jobs than President Obama and everyone on his economic team
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Timothy Karr: Sen. Al Franken: We Have a Free Speech Problem
Aug 20th
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government’s failure to stop it, is one of the most important issues of our time.
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Bin Laden is Dead, Long Live Bin Laden
Aug 19th
By Maidhc Ó Cathail, August 16, 2010 Who’s keeping the terror myth alive? In the trigger-happy post-9/11 world, the favoured way to instigate a war is to demand that the designated “evildoer” prove a negative
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Neetu Mahil: Re-channeling the Energy of Homegrown Terrorists
Aug 15th
As the world was glued to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, an American teen named Zachary Adam Chesser was busy trying to join Al-Shabaab, a Somali-based Islamist militant group suspected in the recent bombings in Kampala, Uganda that left 73 dead and dozens more injured as they watched the final match of World Cup at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant. Those who knew Zachary Adam Chesser said that he kept mostly to himself, and seemed like a maladjusted youth obsessed with satanic art and violent industrial music.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ralph Lopez: The Real Story Behind Time’s Afghan Woman Cover: American Complicity
Aug 15th
There has been much discussion, as well as misunderstanding, of the Time magazine cover photo of the Afghan woman who had her nose cut off by the Taliban. The purported object lesson is clear: If we leave Afghanistan now, this is what will happen. The woman had tried to run away from her abusive husband, and this was her punishment
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Zahra Khan: The Potpourri Resolution for a Ground Zero Mosque
Aug 15th
Several million Muslims live in the US, including a large number in New York City.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Reich: Forget a Double-Dip, We’re Still in One Long Big Dipper
Aug 15th
It’s nonsense to think of the economy heading downward again into a double-dip recession when most Americans never emerged from the first dip. We’re still in one long Big Dipper
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Ground Zero Mosque Comments: President Recalibrates (VIDEO)
Aug 15th
Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York’s ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so. Obama commented during a trip to Florida, where he expanded on a Friday night White House speech asserting that Muslims have the same right to freedom of religion as everyone else in America. The president’s statements thrust him squarely into a debate that he had skirted for weeks and could put Democrats on the spot three months before midterm elections where they already were nervous about holding control of the House and maybe even the Senate.
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