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McChrystal: Coalition Forces Pay Afghan Soldiers Less Than Taliban

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

During yesterday's hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented ...

Congressional Hearings On Antidepressant-Induced Suicide In The Military

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Peter Breggin

Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry continue to have a stranglehold on the treatment of active duty soldiers who become stressed.

Toyota Chief Overshoots Congressional Hearings by 150 Miles

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Andy Borowitz

Toyota president Akio Toyoda said he was having difficulties with the brakes on his 2010 Toyota Prius, which finally came to rest after crashing into a blacksmith's shop in Colonial Williamsburg.

All Health Reform Created Equal, Except Single-Payer

James Floyd, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
James Floyd, M.D.

The incongruity of Baucus's actions over the past year are Orwellian -- he will consider all opinions on health reform, except for single-payer, which, by the way, he deeply respects.

"Gotcha" Grandstanding: You're A Bunch Of Rude Dudes

Betsy Perry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Betsy Perry

While I'm all for coming clean and getting the dirt on AIG and Goldman Sachs, the behavior of the committee members is all about listening to themselves talk, grandstanding and "gotcha" moments.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does - And We All Pay For It

Diane Dimond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Diane Dimond

One could argue that the actions of both Stewart Parnell and Nadya Suleman were criminal, one crime against consumers, the other against tiny, incubated babies struggling to live.

Bankers on the Hill

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
James Warren

Rarely in the rich history of congressional stonings have the victims been so crisply-attired, so contrite, so deferential, and so tolerant of their grandstanding captors.

Congress Must Hold Hearings With CEOs Who Lay Off Workers

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lee Stranahan

I'm tired of reading about the job layoffs daily while witnessing the lavish spending and bad decisions of incompetent CEOs, so I decided to do something about it and started a petition.

Richard Fuld's Congressional Hearing To Explore Causes And Effects Of Collapse (VIDEO)

New York Times, Reuters, AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

**UPDATE** FULD WONDERS WHY LEHMAN WASN'T BAILED OUT When Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was asked whether there was a substantial difference, from a busin...