Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama (announced its closure)
democraticunderground.com 2/25/2009 — Source: [b]Reuters[/b] LONDON (Reuters) - Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards "get their kicks in" before the camp is closed, according to a lawyer who represents ...

Going to Be Worse
eschatonblog.com 3/10/2009 — Sadly I think they're still being somewhat optimistic. March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. jobless rate will reach 9.4 percent this year and remain elevated through at least 2011, threatening the nation’s longer-term growth potential, a monthly ...

Guantanamo Torture Decried By Former State Dept. Lawyer
huffingtonpost.com 3/27/2009 — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A former State Department lawyer tells The Associated Press that the Bush administration panicked after 9/11 and tortured prisoners. Former President George W. Bush denied anyone was tortured. But Vijay Padmanabhan is ...

AP quotes "labor lawyer" who is really an anti-labor lawyer
mediamatters.org 3/22/2009 — AP quotes "labor lawyer" who is really an anti-labor lawyer Published Sun, Mar 22, 2009 11:41am ET by Jamison Foser Earlier, I noted that the Washington Post failed to quote a single labor representative in its Employee Free Choice article today, ...

Video: From Bad to Worse...
marketnewslive.blogspot.com 2/24/2009 — 02/24/09 Economists project the economy will get worse this year than thought as consumer spending declines.

Guantanamo captive phones TV office, claims abuse
reuters.com 4/15/2009 — MIAMI (Reuters) - A young Guantanamo prisoner from Chad was given permission to telephone a relative but instead called the al Jazeera television network and said he was being beaten and abused at the U.S. detention camp. Transcripts of the recorded ...

Today's Obama Economy Worse Than Great Depression
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 3/7/2009 — Several economists agree that Obama inherited a bad situation and made it much worse. Click to Enlarge Here is a chart that shows that the current economy is tracking right with the Great Depression. Here's another article by an Obama-supporting ...

Need A Philadelphia Lawyer?
rhymeswithright.mu.nu 5/4/2009 — Are you in need of a lawyer with expertise in business and fraud cases? Are you looking for legal representation for Pennsylvania litigation? Well, there are lots of fine firms and attorneys out there, but you might just want to...

Reuters: Hello?
riehlworldview.com 3/11/2009 — Via Drudge on Twitter I spotted this item and went to have a look. Must be some protest I thought. Well, not really. Two dozen people marched outside a Manhattan convention center where Real Estate Disposition Corp was auctioning off several ...

Coleman Lawyer Declares Whole Election Tainted -- And Doesn't Rule Out Re-Vote
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/26/2009 — Coleman spokesman/lawyer Ben Ginsberg is really stepping up the rhetoric about how the entire vote count in Minnesota is tainted and unreliable -- and he is quite conspicuously not ruling out the idea of asking for a do-over election. Ginsberg ...

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Banks shift bankruptcy tactics (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 2/25/2009
AP - Big banks, scrambling to prevent the government from forcing them to rewrite mortgages for struggling homeowners, are using their lobbying clout to press the Obama administration and Congress to scale back a key measure to rescue borrowers from ...

Obama budget has $634 billion health fund — Reuters: Politics 2/25/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's budget outline for the 2010 fiscal year includes a 10-year, $634-billion reserve fund to help pay for his proposed healthcare reforms, a White House official said on Wednesday.

Obama talks about financial regulations — First Read 2/25/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones During the fall presidential campaign, when struggling banks led to a credit crisis that roiled the markets and helped worsen an economic downturn, President Obama began beating the drum for updating America's financial ...

Serious Shortcomings in Obama's Oversight of Stimulus Spending — Wash Post Federal Page 2/25/2009
The $787 billion economic stimulus package has raised serious questions about the ability of our federal government to fulfill its basic duties, and will require more than just the close scrutiny promised by the Obama administration.

Medicare cuts, tax hike on wealthy to pay for healthcare plan — L.A. Times - Politics 2/25/2009
Obama budget proposes $634-billion fund to bring coverage to 47 million uninsured. > President Obama plans to fund his ambitious plan to overhaul the ...