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GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Justin Doolittle - May. 21 (Opinion) - He fulminates about people who are allegedly "unwilling to work" sucking off the government teat with impunity. This is a patently dishonest representation of the SNAP program. Most people who receive food stamps cannot be dismissed as losers who are "unwilling to work." Nearly half (47%) of all food stamp recipients are children. Another 8% are 60 years of age or older. The "working poor" - people who live in a household with income from work - represent another 41%. Between children, the elderly, the working poor, and people who want a job but cannot find one - someone should tell Fincher that there are still more than 3 unemployed job seekers for every 1 opening

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The Media Equation: Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:45:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID CARR - May. 19 - If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. Todd Heisler/The New York Times Susan Crawford, a

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The IRS and the Real Scandal

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - By Robert Reich - May. 18 (Opinion) - Despite a growing number of billionaires and multi-millionaires using every tax dodge imaginable – laundering their money through phantom corporations and tax havens — the IRS’s budget has been cut by 17 percent since 2002, adjusted for inflation. To manage the $594.5 million in additional cuts required by the sequester, the agency will furlough each of its more than 89,000 employees for at least five days this year.

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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Kim Barker, Justin Elliott - May. 17 (Investigative Report) - The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.

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Obama appoints Daniel Werfel as acting head of IRS

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 17 (News Report) - President Obama will appoint senior budget aide Daniel I. Werfel as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as that agency manages a scandal stemming from its targeting of conservative ...

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Some in Congress want changes in military law as a result of sex scandals

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - May. 16 (News Report) - Members of Congress said they are so angry about the crescendo of sex-crime scandals in the armed forces that they are considering fundamental changes to military law and other measures that the Pentagon has resisted for years. ...

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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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Obama, Cameron Promote Trade Deal Granting Corporations Political Power

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:44:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Zach Carter - May. 13 (News) - President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European Union, amid growing domestic unrest with the Obama administration's plans to include new political powers for corporations in the deal.

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First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By The Editorial Board - May. 12 (Opinion) - Editorial: First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill

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Will Obama suffer the ‘second-term curse’?

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker - May. 12 (Comment) - Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda through an unbudging ...

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Post Office Lost $1.9 Billion Over The Last 3 Months

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Hananel - May. 10 (News Report) - the Postal Service continues to lose money at a rapid pace due to a decline in mail volume and a congressional requirement that it make advance payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees – something no other federal agency does.

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Lawmaker wants military to promptly alert Congress about drone strikes

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - May. 09 (News Report) - A leading House Republican said Wednesday that he wants to require the U.S. military to “promptly” inform Congress about every drone strike it conducts outside Afghanistan as well as other military operations to kill or capture suspected terrorists outside declared war zones. ...

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The Benghazi hearings: what’s new and what’s not

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - May. 09 (Fact Check) - “I was stunned. My jaw dropped. And I was embarrassed” — Gregory Hicks, former U.S. deputy chief of mission to Libya, testifying on his reaction to U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice’s remarks on the terror attack in Benghazi, May 8, 2013 Read full article ...

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New Benghazi testimony in Congress sharply critical of Obama administration

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 09 (News Report) - Three State Department officials, referred to as 'whistleblowers' by some on the House panel, testified on the Benghazi attack for hours in an intensely partisan ...

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New Benghazi testimony in Congress sharply critical of Obama administration (+video)

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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What amnesty for illegal immigrants will cost America

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jim DeMint, Robert Rector - May. 07 (Opinion) - The economist Milton Friedman warned that the United States cannot have open borders and an extensive welfare state. He was right, and his reasoning extends to amnesty for the more than 11 million unlawful immigrants in this country. In addition to being unfair to those who follow the law and encouraging more unlawful immigration in the future, amnesty has a substantial price tag. ...

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JOLTS Data Offer Depressing Snapshot Of Job Market

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Mark Gongloff - May. 07 (News Report) - If it wasn't clear before, it's clear now: Employers just aren't hiring. The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday released its latest Job Openings And Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) , a less-famous read on the job market than Friday's jobs report . The

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How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger, Dina ElBoghdady - May. 07 (Comment) - On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company. ...

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Red-State Democrats Buck Obama On Social Security Cuts

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim, Sabrina Siddiqui - May. 06 (News Report) - The majority of Senate Democrats running for reelection in 2014, including three running in red states, have broken with President Barack Obama and are opposing his effort to cut Social Security benefits, imperiling the austerity project kn

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Let's Do It, Let's Repeal The Sequester!

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - May. 04 (Opinion) - the happiest thing going on in the political discourse is how the whole fiscal discussion seems to be changing from hack-dominance to, potentially, something more sensible. The catalyzing event seems to have been the work of America's greatest graduate student, Thomas Herndon, who was afforded the opportunity to analyze the data set of economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff -- whose very famous study, which contends that there are debt/growth tipping points, had become the urtext of the global austerity movement -- and very quickly determined that it was riddled with errata and LOLs.

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Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jared Bernstein - May. 04 (Opinion) - Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

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Obama prods liberals to give-and-take on Senate immigration bill

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Nakamura - May. 02 (News Report) - President Obama is warning liberal supporters that their push to make changes in a comprehensive immigration bill could jeopardize the strategy of Senate leaders, who are aiming to win up to 70 votes for the measure. ...

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'Do Nothing F@#ktards' Just Fix The Cuts That Affects Them (VIDEO)

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - May. 01 (Comedy News) - In a show that focused largely on the sequester cuts, Jon opened with a segment on legislators coming together to fix the one problem that affects them... more specifically, their vacations.

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Illegal border crossings rise in South Texas as Congress debates immigration

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - May. 01 (News Report) - UPI.comIllegal border crossings rise in South Texas as Congress debates immigration ...CBS News(CBS News) A few thousand protesters hit the streets in Los Angles Wednesday to demand citizenship for illegal immigrants. The protesters hope to influence Congress, which is working on comprehensive immigration reform. In a new CBS News/New York ...CBS: Illegals Entering US Triple With Talk of Immigration Reform - Newsmax.comNewsmax.comReform supporters confident illegal crossings can be stoppedUPI.comBorder Patrol struggles to measure what it can't seeLos Angeles Timesall 23 news articles »

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Immigration reform: While Congress debates, Supreme Court stays clear

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 29 (News Report) - With the White House and Congress working on immigration reform, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alabama and let stand a finding that the state's statute was preempted by federal law. ...

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