Ex-first lady Barbara Bush hospitalized for tests
FL Judge Overturns 30-Year State Ban On Gay Adoption
Redford: Bush plan to drill around national parks 'criminal'
Column: Impeach Bush before he leaves office
Redford: Bush plan to drill around national parks 'criminal'
Column: Impeach Bush before he leaves office
In Iraq, Former Enemies on the US Payroll By Bobby Ghosh The last time I met Saif Abdallah, in the winter of 2006, he was proud to have helped kill dozens, possibly hundreds of American soldiers. Then 28, he was a geeky electronics engineer who made trigger devices for roadside bombs known as IEDs -- the No. 1 cause of U.S. troop casualties. I remember the relish he took in listing his clients, most of them Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, whom he saw as fellow patriots trying to drive out the American occupier. He had also devised triggers for al-Qaeda. "They pay me," he said then with a shrug. "Anybody who wants to kill American soldiers, if they pay me, I work for them." Guess who pays him now? The American taxpayer. He's now a Son of Iraq (SOI), one of nearly 100,000 Sunnis recruited by the U.S. military to fight al-Qaeda.
Iran claims Israel spy ring broken --Latest group arrested had confessed to having been trained in Israel to carry out assassinations and bombings Iran's revolutionary guards ratcheted up the war of nerves with Israel yesterday by claiming to have broken a spy network run by Mossad, the Israeli espionage agency. The guards' commander-in-chief, Muhammad Ali Jafari, said they had arrested Israeli-trained agents and seized hi-tech communications equipment.
GAO: Labor Dept. Misled Congress The Labor Department gave Congress inaccurate and unreliable numbers that understated the expense of contracting out its employees' work to private firms, according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday. The department's decisions in allowing contractors to compete for bureaucrats' work -- known as "competitive sourcing" -- also demoralized workers, according to most of the 60 agency employees interviewed by the GAO.
Obama Goes After Farm Subsidies In a speech just concluded announcing two more economy appointees -- CBO chief Peter Orszag to the Office of Management and Budget and Robert Nabors (House Approp. Comm.) to be his deputy -- President-elect Obama gave an example of one piece of wasteful government spending: farm subsidies. Obama cited a GAO report out yesterday that said from 2003 to 2006, "millionaire farmers" got $49 million in farm subsidies despite earning more than the $2.5 million cutoff in annual income. "If it's true," Obama said, "it's a prime example of waste."
FDIC adds 54 more banks to its 'problem list' The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday the list of banks it considers to be in trouble shot up nearly 50 percent to 171 during the third quarter -- yet another sign of escalating troubles among the institutions controlling Americans' deposits. In the second quarter, 117 FDIC-insured institutions were on the list. Now, at 171, the number of institutions on the FDIC's "problem list" is at its highest level since late 1995.
Federal deficit could hit $1 trillion this year Budget hawks were aghast when the federal deficit hit a record $455 billion in fiscal 2008, more than double the previous year. That figure could double again in 2009, to $1 trillion, but even balanced budget advocates are saying that may be the price we have to pay to revive the failing economy.
Ann Coulter's Jaw Wired Shut: Report — Ann Coulter may be completely silenced, at least for a while. — If the New York Post's Page Six report is true, Coulter broke her jaw and her mouth is wired shut: … Check back here for confirmation and updates.
Palin, Rudy to stump for GOP senator in Georgia run-off
Franken camp finds 6,400 rejected ballots
Sean Penn talks to R. Castro, Chávez
McCain plans to run again (for Senate)
Peter Orszag / Director's Blog:
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes: A final blog entry — Today President-elect Obama announced his intention to nominate me as director of the Office of Management and Budget. I am therefore resigning as director of CBO and this will be my final blog entry. — I have absolutely loved my time at CBO.
Jeff Jeffrey, BLT Blog, Former White House Aide Faces 90-Day Suspension of Law License
1 comment:
I hope Mrs. Bush get better soon.
As for Laura's book deal it will end up like the other one.
Americans not only bailout the people who stole the taxpayers money but we've even paying our enemy and must likely even the terrorist. You wonder why we're broke and where the money has gone. If Americans had listen to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer these facts would have come to light. But the American people have no problem following the Bush Administration and as Americans lose everything, their jobs, homes and life savings.
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