Bush to Take Last Crack at Dismantling Programs for Middle Class Firms
The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.
The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.
Washington Post | Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green
Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule ma...
Carl Pope | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
The EPA announced that an average American's life is worth $6.9 million today, vs. $8.5 million five years ago. The less a life is worth, the weaker the safety standards warranted to protect it.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.
Ari Melber | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
Attendees and bloggers at Netroots are disappointed with the emerging, bipartisan consensus in Washington that the lawlessness of the Bush era can largely go unpunished.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business
The Bush administration has tried to convince us for 6 years that the diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms is the result of random data entry errors.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
It was the reporter's fault. That's pretty much what Homeland Security adviser and Houston businessman Stephen Payne said. Payne claims he never mea...
Marissa Moss | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment
Apparently, the only place you can see a girl kissing another girl on MTV nowadays is on The Real World after six tequila shots in the hot tub. Certainly not in the video called, um, "I Kissed a Girl."
NY Times | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
Any remaining hope for a modern, efficient and precise census in 2010 has cratered, brought low by managerial incompetence and the administration's re...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
A CIA analyst warned the Bush administration in 2002 that up to a third of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have been imprisoned by mistake, but Wh...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green
Is global warming a hazard to your health? Just ask Abdon Felix Garcia, a farm worker in California. Oh, wait! You can't, because he died on Wednesday after working in a vineyard in 108 degree heat.
Adam Blickstein | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
If the Iraqi government caves to Bush administration demands and agree to vaguer language on American withdrawl, then what message does that send to the Iraqi people?
Tom Hayden | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
At stake for the anti-war movement and the progressive blogosphere is whether the current administration can bind the next president to its current Iraq policies.
Onion News Network | Staff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
From The Onion News Network: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency...
Stephen Ducat | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Those who comprise the current Republican administration are certainly not the first political rulers to deploy humiliation as a psychological weapon against those it perceives as a threat.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of las...
CNN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin will be leaving his job this month, according to White House spokesperson Dana Perino. Perino says Hagin'...
BuzzFlash.com | Amy Weiss | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green
While the Bush administration put a two-year moratorium on solar energy projects on public land last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and colleagues d...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
To succeed now, unions must be able to stand toe-to-toe with global corporations on their own turf, which means in many cases unions too must be global.
Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green
Many a start-up's hopes were dashed when the Bureau of Land Management, in its infinite wisdom, decided to place a moratorium on the construction of new solar plants on public land in six Western states.
Lee Daniels | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
The issue of whose side are you on is not a matter of Democrat versus Democrat. It's a matter of the Democratic Party against a party whose reign has produced a cesspool of corruption.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Military.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on f...
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
For better or worse, we're constitutionally incapable of summoning up sufficient cynicism to imagine the moral depravity required to start another war.
Washington Independent | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...
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Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business