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Corruption, raging unemployment, the auto industry collapse, and a real estate market that is in even worse shape, and yet there are still worse things going on in Detroit these days.Detroit can't even find the money to bury those people unclaimed by family or relatives in its mortuary. The ...
Other
Sen. Carl Levin notes that there appear to be still more troubling emails written by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood. The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to ...
Congress
Carl Levin
U.S. Army
The latest book to grace my nightstand is Never Forgotten: The Search for Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar, by David Jourdan. It recounts the arduous journey of trying to determine what happened to the INS Dakar, which was lost at sea on January 25, 1968 with 69 Israelis aboard somewhere in the ...
World
Israel
Soviet Union
Starwood Hotels, which employs 800 people in White Plains, New York headquarters, is moving across the border to Connecticut because Connecticut put together a more favorable tax package. New York politicians have tried for the past two years to put together a package, but they just couldn't ...
Congress
Once again, the way that the Democrats are pushing new taxes and fees to secure passage of a health care funding overhaul, the need to tax anything that moves was a given.The problem is that this latest proposal (or revisiting of an earlier proposal) to tax cosmetic procedures, isn't going to ...
World
Health care
Foreign Policy
Overnight, reports indicated that hackers managed to access tons of email and other data from a premier British climate research group, the Hadley Climate Research Group, and exposes issues relating to fudging the data. This morning the Hadley group has confirmed that the emails that were ...
World
Global Warming
Yes, you read that right. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the record as stating that taxes imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to prevent Wall Street jobs and related business moving overseas.Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect ...
Congress
Nancy Pelosi
If the name Anwar al-Awlaki sounds familiar, it's because the extremist imam's name came up in the course of the investigation into the actions of Major Malik Hasan, who massacred 13 soldiers at Fort Hood. However, this isn't the first time that Awlaki's name has surfaced in connection with ...
World
The folks running the Recovery.gov website, who have plenty of egg on their face after running data out that showed nonexistent Congressional districts partaking in stimulus funds, now has new data up and running. The nonexistent district data has been scrubbed, so one has to wonder where the ...
White House
Barack Obama
The US government is going to be on the hook for billions based on a court ruling that came down finding that the flooding in vast portions of New Orleans was the result of the Army Corps of Engineers negligently maintaining Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO), a navigation channel. U.S. ...
Other
U.S. Army
The latest book to cross my nightstand is Jill Jonnes' Eiffel's Tower: and the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, The Artists Quarrelled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count. As someone who has been to Paris and taken in the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower, it's an intriguing ...
Other
The decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and his fellow terrorists in federal court was a political decision pure and simple. It was an attempt to rebuke the Bush Administration to engage in tribunals, even though quite a few of the detainees will still get tribunals and not trials. It ...
White House
Barack Obama
Eric Holder
This should come as no surprise given that independent groups and others (myself included) have cataloged that the recovery.gov website includes billions of dollars going to congressional districts that don't exist and that basic defects in the database render it useless. The head of ...
White House
Barack Obama
California is proposing strict energy usage limits on new televisions. They're concerned about the profligate energy required to power ever larger LCD and plasma screen televisions. If adopted, the regulations will require televisions sold in California to be more energy efficient beginning in ...
Other
Not only have they continued their attacks, but they have again attacked the Maersk Alabama, a ship that was briefly siezed by pirates earlier this year and whose captain was held hostage for several days before US Navy SEALs rescued him and killed three of four of his captors. The Maersk ...
World
Somalia
Somali
al-Qaeda
Can you say more than 10% of the annual Medicare budget is fraudulent? I knew you could. Indeed, Weiner & Co. may want to check out the numbers in an explosive new federal report.According to the survey, Washington paid more than $47 billion in questionable or fraudulent Medicare claims in FY ...
World
Foreign Policy
So says the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to terrorist appeaser and sycophant, Lynne Stewart. Stewart was a lawyer who represented blind sheikh Abdel Rahman in his trial. She was warned not to pass any messages between Rahman and his followers. She did.A lengthy trial resulted in a ...
Other
Jon Stewart
On top of the bogus metric "jobs saved or created" reports from all over the country are finding that money has gone to congressional districts that don't even exist. According to the Recovery.gov website, which is supposed to track these things (and you would think knows how many districts ...
White House
Barack Obama
Governor David Paterson has been running several ads to begin rehabilitating his image among New York voters and to get a jump on his potential rivals, including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Polls put Paterson behind pretty much everyone who might contemplate a run for his office.So, when I ...
Law
General David Petraeus
Andrew Cuomo
Eliot Spitzer
Far from being a partisan split, we're finding that there's bipartisan anger over the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other al Qaeda terrorists in New York City less than a mile from Ground Zero.The latest person to slam the Administration? That would be ...
