Following Bush-era argument, Obama attorneys push to weaken search protections
Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth US [...]
Radio host: Beck ‘is a ticking time bomb’ that Fox News will be ’sorry’ for
It’s amazing, the standards of “newsworthiness” exhibited by some outlets.
When Rep. Alan Grayson called a female lobbyist a “K-Street whore,” Fox News went into overdrive, smelling blood in the water.
But when one of their own drops a prostitution analogy in reference to a female lawmaker, not a word of criticism eeks out.
Take, [...]
Sen. Sanders has ‘real problem’ supporting Afghanistan troop increase
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hasn’t heard President Barack Obama’s proposal for how to move forward with the war in Afghanistan, but he’s already saying that he will have a “real problem” supporting an increase of 30,000 or more troops.
Sanders told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday, “You have to put Afghanistan into the context of what’s [...]
Fed chairman pens op-ed panning proposed audit
The head of the US central bank said Saturday he was “concerned” by some congressional proposals aimed at regulating the US financial system that infringe upon the powers of the Federal Reserve.
“I am concerned, however, that a number of the legislative proposals being circulated would significantly reduce the capacity of the Federal Reserve to perform [...]
GOP Rep.: ‘Democratic bill requires the government to encourage suicide’
With today’s much anticipated vote on the House health care bill, liberal blogger-political activist Mike Stark decided to speak with a few Republican members of Congress as they made their way around the Hill today for a last minute anti-healthcare reform rally.
“I wanted to know how many of them knew – at this late juncture [...]
