Murkowski has stated that she didn’t know until December 2010 that her top fisheries aide had committed multiple criminal acts years before. But everyone else apparently knew. NOAA Chief Lubchenco refused comment when asked directly whether she told Murkowski in 2009 By APRN (9/26/11): When Senator Murkowski’s fisheries aide pulled out from consideration for an […]
By the Telegraph (9/26/11): The head of the IMF has warned that its $384bn (£248bn) war chest designed as an emergency bail-out fund is inadequate to deliver the scale of the support required by troubled states. In a document distributed to the IMF steering committee at the weekend, Ms Lagarde said: “The fund’s credibility, and […]
By Jim Angle (FoxNews.com): The Joint Economic Committee, the bicameral group of legislators that reports on the nation’s economic picture, asked some troubling questions in a hearing Tuesday — what is the tipping point for the enormous debt the U.S. is carrying? And at what point do the nation’s debts start to weigh down the […]
By Laurence J. Kotlikoff (CNN): Our government is utterly broke. There are signs everywhere one looks. Social Security can no longer afford to send us our annual benefit statements. The House can no longer afford its congressional pages. The Pentagon can no longer afford the pension and health care benefits of retired service members. NASA is […]
“When Republican Attorney General Kline made serious efforts to hold Tiller to the law, Tiller invested a reputed $2 million in the 2006 election alone. This election assured the defeat of the incumbent Kline and the re-election of Democratic Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, now the secretary of health and human services. While still under criminal investigation, Tiller […]
By JIM MCTAGUE (Barron’s): America, get shovel-ready: There’s an onslaught of words heading your way from both Congress and the White House about the best way to repair our tottering fiscal edifice. President Obama is skipping about the country talking up his $447 billion jobs plan. Congressional Republicans have responded with high-sounding talk about “Liberating […]
By Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher: DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses and the possibility of sweeter profit-sharing checks as part of a new four-year contract with General Motors Co., two people briefed on the talks said Saturday. The deal, which was reached late Friday, also includes a $2- to […]
By Joe Miller: On this day, 224 years ago, our Constitution was signed by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Just a few years after its ratification, the Founders’ vision of a limited central government composed of coequal branches came under a sustained attack from the judiciary, an attack that has dramatically increased in […]
Allegations of sexism, hostile work environment in White House By David Gardner (Daily Mail): Top female advisers felt left out by a boy’s club in the White House where rampant infighting sabotaged the administration’s economic decisions, according to a controversial new book. Sidelined and ignored in the West Wing, some women aides reportedly complained to […]
By ERIN EINHORN AND CORKY SIEMASZKO (Daily News): Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn’t get serious about generating jobs. “We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show. “That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in […]