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August 2010
Is the Ethics Investigation really an Ethnic Investigation?
Truth be told you can find some amount of corruption with a 10-year-old girl's lemonade stand if you lack enough of a life to devote time to it. What with zoning laws, how many feet from the curve it has to be, etc., and before you know it, little Vanessa is visited upon by two stuff-shirts in 90 degree weather serving her with a citation before she can say 'whaaaaat...' Thus we've had similar childish scrutiny of 8 black Democratic lawmakers from earlier this year by the House Ethics Committee that boggle the mind.
Republicans Don't Want You to Think about the Real Cause of the Deficit
National Priorities Project Tallies Cost of War Including Recent Supplemental Bill through September 30, 2010 $749.9 billion for Iraq $337.8 billion for Afghanistan $1.09 trillion total spending With the passage of a supplemental spending bill last week (H.R. 4899), Congress has appropriated an additional $36.2 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the 2010 fiscal year.
Health Reform Strengthens Medicare, Say Trustees
RELEASE: Affordable Care Act Affirmation: Medicare Trustees Note Cost Savings Today’s [8-05-10] annual assessment of the financial health of the Medicare program reinforces the historic nature and great promise of the Affordable Care Act. This report, which examines the short- and long-range stability of the Hospital Insurance (Part A) and Supplemental Medical Insurance (Parts B and D) Trust Funds, attributes significant savings in future Medicare spending to changes made by the new health law.
21st Century Higher Education: An Institution in Crisis
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical The modern university At my home university, only Coca-Cola products can be distributed on campus as a result of contractual agreements.
How Long Will It Take Republicans to Take Credit for Recovery Act Broadband Projects?
Comparing the development of high-speed Internet as part of the President's economic recovery act to electrification projects under the New Deal, Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Aug. 4 the provision of more than $1.3 billion to fund more than 120 broadband projects in rural communities across the country.
Human Rights Group Documents Pollution on Gaza Beaches Due to Siege
Original source: Palestinian Center for Human Rights Gaza City, Palestine—The signs which dot the beach along the Gaza City waterfront are clear: "THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED," they read, and yet they seem to serve only as obstacles for children running to the sea rather than warnings to be heeded of the serious health risks associated with swimming here.
Why the Hubbub About Elizabeth Warren?
Who is surprised that the banking industry is drawing a line in the sand to prevent the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer financial protection agency? Senator Christopher Dodd, – who wanted to leave a legacy as a pragmatic financial reformer – himself has begun a frankly humiliating process of damning with faint praise the one individual who has conducted herself with striking integrity throughout the entire bailout and rescue drama of the past two years.
Labor Leads Fight to Stop GOP on Nov. 2
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Battleground States Conference, Washington, DC August 03, 2010 Thanks for coming to D.C. I'm excited to see you, because I know you're getting fired up to go all out.
WikiLeaks and the U.S. Press
Media Advisory Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting WikiLeaks and the U.S. Press Media resistance to exposure of government secrets 7/30/10 The website WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of classified intelligence documents relating to the Afghanistan War on Sunday, July 25. Spanning the years 2004-09, the documents had been shared in advance with reporters from the New York Times, the British Guardian and the German Der Spiegel, all of which produced long pieces offering their interpretations of the documents.
