David Edwards and Daniel Tencer

The CEOs of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the two investment banks that collapsed during last year’s financial meltdown, walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation even as the company’s shareholders lost everything, says a new report from Harvard Law School.
The top five executives at Bear Stearns made a total of $1.4 [...]

The Democrats will pass a health care reform bill even if it means abandoning efforts at bipartisanship and passing the bill with only Demcoratic votes, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told NBC’s Today Show.
“We prefer to go at it with the Republicans,” Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, told NBC’s Matt Lauer. “But we’re not [...]

A Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer is facing accusations of brutality after a video showing him pushing an unruly man through a plate-glass window went viral over the weekend.
Police in Oakland, California, have charged Michael Joseph Gibson with felony battery of a police officer, obstructing and resisting an officer, disorderly conduct and public intoxication [...]

Beck exploits economic misery, provides ’scapegoats’: Huffington
Fox News host Glenn Beck is the media’s “fearmonger-in-chief,” helping to sow distrust and paranoia about the government through conspiracy theories, says the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL, one of the world’s most prominent groups devoted to fighting racism and anti-Semitism, singled out the controversial TV and radio personality as having [...]

The facts aren’t on Sarah Palin’s side, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert declared Thursday night, before passing verdict on Palin’s new book, Going Rogue: It’s a “steaming pile of shit.”
“While I was hollowing her book out to hide my waffles, I had a chance to read almost the entire cover,” Colbert told his audience. “And I [...]