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Right-Wing Supreme Court Draws Ire Of Senate Judiciary Committee

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Rights, Supreme Court, Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Exxon Mobil, Mandatory Binding Arbitration, Tracy Barker, Exxon Valdez, Liberties, Roberts Court, Fraud, Senate, Haliburton, Securities, Hearings, National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, Justice, Arbitration, Home News
Cristóbal Joshua Alex

The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.

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Roxanna Brown: How Can This Happen in America?

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Homeland Security, Freedoms, Civil Rights, Fraud, Thailand, Roxanna Brown, Identity Theft, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Mort Rosenblum

However unintended, Roxanna Brown suffered capital punishment without trial because of what appears to be simple identity theft, now so common to our daily lives.

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Freddie and Fannie: Republican victims

Diane Francis | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Lending Sector, George Bush, Sub-Prime, Housing, Investment Banks, U.S. Treasury, Fannie Mae, Eliot Spitzer, Real Estate Sector, Fraud, Mortgages, Fannie Mae Bailout, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns Bailout, Wall Street, Economy, Rrepublicans, Business News
Diane Francis

The announcement on Sunday that the Fed and U.S. Treasury will backstop these two financial intermediaries is an entirely predictable, latter-day outcome as a result of cowboy capitalism.

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Government Small Business Contracts Went to Fortune 500 Companies

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Mcgraw-Hill, Small Business, Economy, Dell, Department of Interior, Shwerwin Williams, Business, Home Depot, Ricoh, Barack Obama 2008, Fraud, John Deere, Contractor Fraud, Starwood Hotels, Gtsi, Xerox, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Federal investigations clearly show that Fortune 500 corporations are the actual recipients of federal small business contracts, and yet the Bush administration continues to maintain that this is a myth.

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Congress To Investigate Iraq Fuel Deal Involving McCain Fundraiser

MSNBC News | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Fraud, Mccain Fundraiser Under Investigation, McCain Fundraiser, Election 2008, John McCain 2008, No-Bid Government Contracts, Harry Sargeant, International Oil Trading Company, John McCain, Politics News

An NBC News exclusive report that ran on msnbc.com about an unusual Pentagon fuel deal has sparked an inquiry by the House Committee on Oversight and ...

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Rapture-Ready Evangelicals Impersonate Army Officers -- Bush Administration Gives Organization Members Award

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Religion in the Military, Military, Missionaries, Politics News
Chris Rodda

I was about to add Marshall Minute to our files as yet another example of a military ministries that exist near about every military installation, when a link on their site caught my eye -- a link to military recommendations.

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Suicide?: Disgraced Hedge Fund Trader Samuel Israel III Missing

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 06.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Hedge Fund Traders, White Collar Crime, Hedge Funds, Bayou Hedge Fund, Suicide, Convicted Trader, Samuel Israel III, Business News

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge...

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Henry T. Nicholas III, Broadcom Co-founder, Indicted On Cocaine, Ecstasy And Fraud Charges

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Henry Nicholas, Henry T. Nicholas III, Broadcom, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Backdated Stock Options, Shenanigans, Fraud, Business News

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was indicted on federal narcotics charges that include allegations he slippe...

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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder

Paige Donner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon Audit, Contractors, Congressional Oversight Committee, Free Government Information, Pigs at the Trough, Unaccounted for Expenditures, Rep. Henry Waxman, Halliburton, Senator Obama, U.S. Taxpayer Dollars, Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq, U.S. Army Soldiers, Clean Contracting Amendment, Federal Regulations, Fraud, Kbr, War on Iraq, Army, Fifteen Billion Dollars, CBS News, Mary Ugone, New York Times, Washington Post, Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq Kuwait and Egypt, Misappropriation, American Idol, Seized Iraqi Oil Money, Indiana Jones Sequel, Kellogg Brown Root, Cash, Politics News
Paige Donner

(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...

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Friday Talking Points [24] -- Which Side Are You On?

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: 4000 Dead, Al Gore, Democrat, Housing and Urban Development, War Profiteer, Hud, Tonight Show, Pete Seeger, Palomino, Superdelegate, Iraq, Dana Perino, Campaign, Four Thousand Dead, Endorsement, Shiite, 4000, Iran, First Cat, Socks the Cat, 2008, Alphonso Jackson, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Which Side Are You On, John Edwards, Snl, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Democratic Convention, John McCain, Socks, Nuclear Weapon, Edwards Endorsement, Treason, 08, 2008 Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, 08 Election, Nomination, Fraud, John Murtha, First Cat Socks, Mddotw, Jay Leno, Convention, Four Thousand, Hillary Clinton, Nominee, Saturday Night Live, Jack Murtha, Sunni, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Like the hapless characters in Waiting For Godot, America sits and watches in fascination as the Democratic nomination race grinds into yet another ca...

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Terrorists On Wall Street

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Financial Gurus, U.S. Economy, Sec, Finance, Fraud, Bonuses, Society Security, 401ks, S&L, Federal Reserve, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Regulation, 401(K), Harvard Business School, MBAs, Financial Corporations, Financial Bonuses, Federal Money Brokers, Bear Stearns, Bankruptcy, Brokerages, Business News
Harry Fuller

This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.

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Clinton Claiming Widespread Fraud By Obama, Ramping Up Legal War To String Out Primary

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Fraud, Offthebus, Lawyers, Florida, Democratic National Convention, Michigan, Superdelegates, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Texas, Caucuses, Barack Obama, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The Clinton camp called a press conference tonight, which I attended telephonically, to accuse the Obama Texas campaign of "statewide systemic" abuses of the caucus process.

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Trust

Bob Edwards | Posted 03.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Fraud, Trust, Bob Edwards, Entertainment News
Bob Edwards

We trust people until we learn we can't. We have to trust. Who wants to live in a world where everyone is guilty until proven innocent?

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French Trader Single-Handedly Orchestrated $7.14 Billion Fraud

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Fraud, Societe Generale, Business News

PARIS — In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is a...

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Rep. Slaughter, Call Up DOD Deputy Under Secretary Jack Bell!

Dina Rasor | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Waste in Government, Slaughter, Troops, Iraq Contractors, Jack Bell, Politics News
Dina Rasor

Maybe the Congress can get DOD Under Secretary Jack Bell to speak realistically about problems with contractors under oath in front of a congressional committee.

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The GOP's Socialized Medicine: Corporate Drug Fraud

Art Levine | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Veto, Bush Administration, Health Care, Drug Companies, Schip, Politics News
Art Levine

The administration has no problem in creating boondoggles for drug companies in exploiting Medicare and Medicaid that are the GOP's version of socialized medicine -- for drug industry CEOs.

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Open Letter to the Republican Senators: The Commission on Wartime Contracting Should be a Bipartisan Effort

Dina Rasor | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Waste, Fraud, Iraq, Senate, Contractor, Politics News
Dina Rasor

The Congress as a whole is responsible for not putting in effective oversight to the money they spent on the troops. Why shouldn't that be a bipartisan concern to fix it?

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