The Truth-O-Meter Says: “The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year.” House Republican Conference on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 in a press release and Web post GOP full of hot air about Obama’s “light switch [...]
Archive for March, 2009
31 Mar
U.S. ACTS TO EASE COSTS OF PRIVATE MEDICARE PLANS
By JANE ZHANG Wall St. Journal, March 31, 20009 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration set new terms for private Medicare plans that are aimed at protecting sick patients from paying high charges and giving consumers a clearer idea of what the plans cover. The changes, announced Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, [...]
31 Mar
Today’s Opinions
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Topic A Should GM’s CEO have been dismissed? Experts weigh in. Richard Cohen The Wheels Are Off It’s time acknowledge reality and stop putting taxpayer money into GM and Chrysler. Anne Applebaum Group Therapy for 20 An oft-pointless summit has a new sense of urgency Eugene Robinson Detroit Dissonance The White [...]
31 Mar
Congress: Tell Them in Person April 4 – 19
While I do not necessarily feel the same as David does on each of these issues presented below, I do agree that we, as civic minded citizens, need to make our feelings and beliefs known to each of our elected officials. Jim O’ AfterDowningStreet.com Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2009-03-25 20:41. By David Swanson It’s [...]
30 Mar
W broke international laws; Obama should prosecute
www.opednews.com March 30, 2009 at 15:36:45 by winston We all are accessories after the fact! Jonathan Turley, professor of Constitutional Law at George Washington University Law School has been calling for Obama to prosecute W for war crimes it seems like forever as people in big bro 43’s group are stonewalling with Thomas R. Pickering [...]
30 Mar
Why Are We Not Giving The Man A Chance?
www.opednews.com March 30, 2009 by David Basora People are angry with President Obama for sending more troops to Afghanistan. They’re angry with him for his stimulus package, the proposed budget and the bank bailout. They say he’s spreading himself too thin. They say they’re tired of seeing his face all over the media. These are [...]
30 Mar
Seems like a legitimate question to me…
March 30, 2009 at 13:36:06 Why Not Bank CEOs? by David Sirota Page 1 of 1 page(s) www.opednews.com Published on OurFuture.org (http://www.ourfuture.org) Created 03/30/2009 – 12:07am The Associated Press [1] reports that “General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, U.S. administration officials said [...]
30 Mar
This will provoke some discussion!
by Jon Faulkner www.opednews.com The Republicans Win When the Reagan Administration began the deregulation craze, and the Holy Free Market became infallible, the collapse of the U.S. financial industry was predictable. Bush was the ton of bricks that broke the camel’s back. The transfer of wealth upwards was conservatism at its most typical, and destructive. [...]
30 Mar
The 25-Cent Flood Protection Device
Slate.com Why are we still using sandbags to keep rivers from overflowing? By Jacob Leibenluft Posted Monday, March 30, 2009, at 11:48 AM ET Workers constructed makeshift levees from millions of sandbags in Fargo, N.D., through the weekend to prevent possible flooding as the Red River crested to record heights. In this “Explainer” column from [...]
30 Mar
Giant Internet worm set to change tactics April 1
Seattlepi.com By JORDAN ROBERTSON AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER SAN FRANCISCO — The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday – April Fools’ Day. That’s when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about [...]
30 Mar
GM & Chrysler
White House.gov Blog Feed 3/30/09 12:53 PM The White House This morning the President announced that his Auto Task Force has completed its evaluation of the viability of General Motors and Chrysler in light of their requests for federal assistance. In addition to releasing the viability assessments, he also released a new policy with the American [...]
30 Mar
Obama’s first budget
The truth about Obama’s first budget By Bill Adair, Robert Farley Published on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 7:34 p.m. Related rulings: His proposed budget would “cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term.” Barack Obama, Tuesday, March 24th, 2009. Ruling: Mostly True | Details  “As a percentage of gross domestic [...]
