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Obama’s Border Plan Doesn’t Include Money For Already Overwhelmed Courts
Jun 30th
PHOENIX — President Barack Obama’s $600 million border security plan seems to have it all: More than 1,000 agents, seven gunrunner teams, five FBI task forces and more prosecutors and immigration judges. But it doesn’t include $40 million to help the already overwhelmed federal courts along the U.S.-Mexico border that will likely be inundated with additional drug and other criminal cases, a judiciary official tells The Associated Press. Increased patrols will mean more arrests and more cases sent to the five district courts on the border, from California to Texas
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Loading ...HuffPost TV: Sam Stein On ‘Ed Show’: Time For Birthers To ‘Move On To The Real Issues’ (VIDEO)
Jun 29th
HuffPost reporter Sam Stein joined guest host Chris Hayes and New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat for the “Rapid Fire” segment of Monday night’s “Ed Show.” The panel laughed over Mike Huckabee’s Sunday touting of his poll numbers among Republicans, which Douthat termed characteristically “charmingly passive-aggressive.” Next, they discussed the Supreme Court’s repudiation of Chicago’s laws on gun control, an issue which Stein ruefully said Democrats — including President Obama — have basically ignored. Finally, Hayes moved on to a recent poll suggesting that one-quarter of Americans don’t believe Obama was born in the United States
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...New Palin Legal Defense Fund: Ethics Complaints Against Illegal Fund Just Part Of A ‘Massive Witch Hunt’
Jun 29th
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The administrators of a new legal defense fund set up for Sarah Palin have sent out an e-mail that downplays the outcome of ethics complaints against the former Alaska governor and accuses her political enemies of waging a “vicious campaign” to ruin her.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...House Dems, Citing Corruption, Block Reconstruction Funds For Afghanistan
Jun 28th
The House Democrat who oversees funding for Afghanistan’s redevelopment and reconstruction said on Monday that she is stripping money from her foreign aid bill in reaction to pervasive corruption. Dave Obey, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, supports the move made by subcommittee chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), according to an Obey spokesman.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Saul Friedman: Hidden Nuggets in the Health Reforms
Jun 28th
The final health reform law is much too long, more than 2,000 pages, mostly because of dozens of compromises to get Democrats (liberals and conservatives) on board, and in a vain effort to get support from Republicans who marched in lockstep to vote no like, say, the goosestepping North Korean army. Nevertheless, a 2,000 page bill is not unusual for even routine legislation like the budget, but the length reflects these contentious days in the Congress, especially for such a massive and comprehensive legislative enterprise as the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Most of us know, or will soon see, the main benefits, requiring insurance and drug companies to provide-with the government’s help-affordable health care and prescription drug for 40 million uninsured Americans, including children, no matter their current health problems.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized, ‘Seriously Ill’
Jun 27th
WASHINGTON — Sen.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Geoffrey Dunn: Palin Guilty of Major Ethics Act Violation: Must Return $386,000 in Contributions
Jun 25th
Nearly a year after she quit her governorship of Alaska, Sarah Palin was found guilty today of another breach of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act involving her so-called Alaska Fund Trust (AFT), which she established as a private “legal defense fund” while governor. Timothy Petumenos, independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board (and ironically, the same independent counsel who issued the Troopergate findings nearly two years ago while Palin was the GOP vice-presidential nominee), presented the state’s Findings, Consent Decree and Settlement Agreement this afternoon from the perfectly named Adventure Room of the Captain Cook Hotel in downtown Anchorage.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dan Agin: Dumbing Down: Mediocrity, the Business Mob, and Karl Rove
Jun 25th
With all the overheated gas blown at us about corporate expertise and corporate excellence and corporate wisdom, what is usually avoided is the reality that the people who gravitate to corporate management positions — such as the people who ultimately may appear before congressional hearings to explain oil spills — are not the best and the brightest of society, but usually the not-so-best and not-so-brightest, the middle third in university classes, the “people” persons and bean counters and power strivers — all with a sprinkling of sociopaths. They are not the inventors, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, dedicated medical people, and the sparkling intellects of the literary and visual arts, history, philosophy, and the social sciences.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Wallace Turbeville: The Second Energy Revolution
Jun 22nd
In the 1930s, a great many Southerners had no access to electricity. The Roosevelt administration perceived an enormous opportunity to restructure the region’s economy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jerry Brown House, Worth $1.8 Million, Doesn’t Fit California Governor Candidate’s Tale Of Frugality
Jun 22nd
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor’s mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented apartment during his first tour in the executive office and lived in a downtown loft in Oakland while he was mayor of the crime-ridden city.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Stanley McChrystal, Top U.S. General In Afghanistan, Summoned To Washington After ‘Rolling Stone’ Interview
Jun 22nd
WASHINGTON (AP)— The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Barack Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jacqueline Caster: Where Is the Obama Administration on Juvenile Justice Reform?
Jun 21st
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of being part of a group invited to The White House to discuss the need for the Obama Administration to focus on juvenile justice reform issues. It was an encouraging meeting, and the officials present seemed interested in what we had to say.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Bruce Fein: Supreme Court Nominee Could Coronate Obama
Jun 21st
Depend upon it! If confirmed by the United States Senate, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will crown President Obama with “imperial” constitutional powers. Congress and Federal Courts will wither as checks against his presidential usurpations or abuses whenever war or other national security claims are bugled over Iran, North Korea, Yemen, international terrorism, economic adversity, or otherwise.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cenk Uygur: Why Our Nobles Betray Us
Jun 21st
I understand that it’s a little goofy to draw lessons from a fictional movie, but my wife and I were just watching Braveheart and there was one interesting element in there. In the movie, the nobles of Scotland keep betraying William Wallace who is fighting for the people of Scotland. And my wife asked me why the nobles continually backstab Wallace if he is fighting for their country.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Al Franken Slams Supreme Court For Dismantling Legal Protections (VIDEO)
Jun 18th
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) railed against the Supreme Court in a speech to progressive legal scholars Wednesday night, declaring that “the Roberts Court has systematically dismantled the legal protections that help ordinary people find justice when wronged by the economically powerful.” Franken in particular decried the way conservative legal scholars have changed the popular perception of what Supreme Court justices do — and what justice is
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Reich: Joe Barton and the Big Big Debate
Jun 18th
Representative Joe Barton’s apology to Tony Hayward for what he termed a “shakedown” of BP by the White House in order to get BP’s agreement to a $20 billion escrow fund, was the best thing to happen to BP since April 20, and the best boost for the White House in months. What possessed Barton, the ranking Republican on Energy and Commerce? Adding to the mystery is the fact that just four years ago, Barton, as the committee’s chair, excoriated BP’s top brass (who were then appearing before the Committee to explain the firm’s negligence in allowing 270,000 gallons of oil to spill on Alaska’s North Slope, the worst spill ever recorded in that fragile territory) for a “corporate culture of seeming indifference to safety and environmental issues …
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