Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton took on the Bush Administration’s plan to define birth control as abortion and undermine women’s rights, today in a press conference and the blogosphere. Here’s a clip from the press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA56Oz-t_rQ
In a blog post cross posted on the HuffPo and RhRealityCheck, Clinton said:
The Bush administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Many Americans have dug a hole so deep thanks to corporate bankers and our government’s propensity to bail them out before helping the little people that are losing their homes, that it could be a long while before we’ve seen the end of our collective economic nightmare. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Financial Times reports that the Feds are ready to bail out the big banks:
Large US investment banks will be able to access emergency cash from the Federal Reserve into next year if market turmoil persists, Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday in a sign of the growing concern among policymakers that financial strains could continue for [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
How out of touch is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson? So out of touch that he thinks what’s going on with the economy is simply a “rough period.”
That’s right… BushCo wants Americans to believe that “soaring crude oil prices, a widespread credit crunch and a two-year long housing market slump” has simply “taken some of the [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
In today’s WaPo Dana Milbank uses his column to bite The Dark Lord, (no, not He-Who-Shall-Not-Be Named), VP Dick Cheney square on the ass while reporting also on Dennis Kucinch’s futile attempt to impeach George Bush. That effort died a quick death.
“Why so unwilling to impeach Bush? As Democratic leaders like to say, two words: [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Dow slide 394 points today while “crude oil prices spiked over $138.” There is no relief in sight on the rising oil prices.
The pain at the pumps has been excruciating in recent weeks. Today, oil prices “shot up nearly $11 a barrel” and settled “at a record $138.54 on geopolitical jitters, a dollar decline and a [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
We are failing at human rights, globally. That’s not a big surprise but the annual Amnesty International Report (Pdf version … big file!) is a good opportunity to remind us all that we need to is a good opportunity to remind us all that we need to do much much more for human rights, [...]
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Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Walter Brasch
President Bush was justifiably upset. A cyclone four days earlier had destroyed a large portion of Myanmar, and the country’s military junta was still refusing humanitarian aid. “Let the United States come to help you, help the people,” Bush pleaded with the junta. “We’re prepared to move U.S. Navy assets to help find those who’ve [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Robert Freedland
Cross-Posted on Stock Picks Bob’s Advice:
A few days ago I discussed how I was looking into an iBond. So I visited my local Wells Fargo Bank and purchased a $5,000 bond for a long-term investment. And the more I thought about, the more I became perplexed about this new limit on individual savings [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Standard Operating Procedure is a book co-authored by Philip Gourevitch (also author of the great We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and writer for the New Yorker) and Errol Morris (director of the great documentary The Fog of War [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Via Human Rights Watch , or, as I call it, “is there no issue on which this administration is not willing to take the most vile position, contradicting every standard of good global governance and just plain ol’ human decency”? I know… simple answer to simple question. Anyhoo,
“US efforts [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
I’m a little distracted, right now, as I hope to be for the rest of the week. I imagine that today’s Ten Post Round-Up will probably drag you (kicking and screaming) back down to earth:
1: McCain says “Bu-Bye” to another lobbyist….
Another McCain Lobbyist Bites The Dust–Cliff Schecter
2: You should get [...]
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