Original Content at http://www.opednews.com November 14, 2008 By Fred Burks Excerpts of Key Banking Bailout News Articles in Major Media Below are many highly revealing one-paragraph excerpts of important bank bailout articles from the mainstream media, originally posted at WantToKnow.info. Links are provided to the full articles on major media websites. If any link should [...]
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14 Nov
Officials: Obama Offered Clinton Secretary Of State Position
huffingtonpost.com/ Posted by Nico Pitney, Huffington Post at 1:48 PM on November 14, 2008. Hillary requested time to consider the offer, officials said. President-elect Barack Obama offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the position of Secretary of State during their meeting Thursday in Chicago, according to two senior Democratic officials. She requested time to consider the offer, [...]
14 Nov
Priest Calls Vote for Obama a Mortal Sin
Priest Calls Vote for Obama a Mortal Sin [1] by David Walters | Washington Post.com [2] A Catholic priest in South Carolina has decided that the democratic act of casting a vote is, in some cases, a mortal sin. Therefore, he has decided that parishioners who voted for Barack Obama are not entitled to the grace [...]
14 Nov
Barack Obama: It’s Time
The Economist Endorsement THE ECONOMIST / CANDIDE’S NOTEBOOKS, NOVEMBER 1, 2008 Wise choice IT IS impossible to forecast how important any presidency will be. Back in 2000 America stood tall as the undisputed superpower, at peace with a generally admiring world. The main argument was over what to do with the federal government’s huge budget surplus. [...]
14 Nov
Taxpayers’ billions shouldn’t be used to buy a lemon
mcclatchydc.com Opinion Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 By The State This editorial appeared in The State. THIS WEEK, THE nation’s economic woes careened from Wall Street through Main Street and landed with a crash on suburban strip malls. Among other things, a drop in consumer spending caused Circuit City to seek bankruptcy protection and rival Best [...]
14 Nov
Will We Ever Learn the Truth?
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, November 13, 2008; 12:39 PM Will we ever find out what President Bush really did in our name? There’s so much we still don’t know — about torture, warrantless wiretapping, and the politicization of the Justice Department, just for starters. Once Bush leaves office, will there be congressional [...]
14 Nov
Baucus Kicks Off Health-Care Reform Debate with 89-Page Memo
washingtonpost.com HEALTH CARE Sen. Max Baucus speaks about healthcare at news conference in Washington, D.C., today. (Jay Premack/Bloomberg News) By Ceci Connolly The early positioning over health-care reform has begun and — almost — everyone’s making nice. Despite significant policy differences between them, President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) had nothing [...]
14 Nov
Where Should Health Care Rank on Obama’s List of Priorities?
By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. Posted November 10, 2008. If health care reform is done in a way that contains costs and lifts quality, it will take time and serious seed money. This article originally appeared on Health Beat. On HealthBeat I have talked about social solidarity as the key to meaningful healthcare reform. Last [...]
14 Nov
How to End Our Financial Misery
By Robert Pollin, The Nation. Posted November 13, 2008. A large-scale stimulus program is the only action that can possibly do the job. The collapse on Wall Street is now decimating Main Street, Ocean Parkway, Mountain View Drive and I-80. Since January the economy has shed 760,000 jobs. In September alone, monthly mass layoff claims [...]
14 Nov
Bush Still Draws a Blank
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Nearing the bitter end of eight ruinous years in office, President Bush still won’t acknowledge a single substantive thing he did wrong. Asked if he had any regrets in a CNN interview yesterday, Bush copped to a few public-relations gaffes many years ago. His tone, [...]
