yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/10/2008
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I’d thought that one beneficial result of Barack Obama being elected president was that it might cause conservatives to think twice about their post-9/11 embrace of unlimited executive power. But instead The Wall Street Journal is still upset that the new, loophole-ridden FISA is too ...
Accountability watch
washingtonmonthly.com 12/19/2008 — ACCOUNTABILITY WATCH.... It's not my intention to belabor the argument about Rick Warren giving the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, but the topic has prompted some good discussion. For that matter, I've received a whole lot of good emails ...
"surveillance equipment"
bitchphd.blogspot.com 12/15/2008 — Okay, so, I was at Target yesterday and I bought myself a few sweaters. Retail therapy, ok? And I bought a sweater for my boyfriend, too, cause I thought it would look sexy on him (I was right, of course--no trying-on even necessary). And I was ...
Surveillance
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/4/2009 —
Via Steve Benen, I’m shocked to learn that police surveillance power is sometimes abused :
The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers ...
No accountability, no responsibility
betsyspage.blogspot.com 12/29/2008 — Thomas Sowell ties together modern trends in education to resist the idea of accountability for failures to the attitude that those in business and government who make mistakes should be protected from the results of their mistakes. He notes how we ...
Accountability For Thee, Not For Me
openleft.com 12/24/2008 — In his column today, Thomas Friedman laments our lack of infrastructure , and is upset that more GM executives have not been re-assigned despite the company losing seventy-two billion dollars:
What has become of our infrastructure, which is so crucial to productivity? Back home, I was greeted ...
Moral Accountability
moralaccountability.com 1/23/2009 — In the course of the 2008 presidential campaign, a small group of Catholic and Evangelical Protestant intellectuals and activists, while saying that they personally support legal protection for the unborn and oppose the redefinition of marriage, ...
Support for accountability
washingtonmonthly.com 2/12/2009 — SUPPORT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.... It seems likely that some Democratic policymakers are reluctant to investigate Bush administration wrongdoing because they fear a public backlash. There's a perception that Americans don't want officials to look ...
Obama to include accountability in economic plan
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news.yahoo.com 1/6/2009 — AP - President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan won't include money for politicians' pet projects and will include provisions aimed at ensuring his administration is open and accountable to taxpayers and Congress, a transition official ...
Obama says critical to stabilize economy —
Reuters: Politics 12/10/2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama said in remarks published on Wednesday he would like to move past the era of government bailouts but that right now it is important to "stabilize the patient" and save the U.S. economy from losing ...
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