Firedoglak points out an inconvenient truth: [Denise Prosser] is dying because she lost her job and she can’t pay her medical bills. She didn’t steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money–that’s AIG. Nobody will tell ...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

Well, here’s a BIG surprise: the Democrats say they don’t have the votes to pass the Employee Free Choice Act: he president’s party simply lacks the votes to break a GOP filibuster of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the No. 1 priority of the labor movement that’s headed ...

I was bopping around the Intertubes this morning when a chance visits to Glenn Greenwald took me to Andrew Sullivan’s place, where the answer to the following question was illustrated in the starkest colors: [The Israeli] assault on top of a blockade, carried out with an “iron fist”...

As I’ve noted before, there’s a good reason WHY I don’t read the Stinky, a/k/a the floundering Philadelphia Inquirer: since taking over as publisher, Brian Tierney has presided over what Daniel U-A rightly identifies as “the Right-Wing Hackifying of the Inquirer Op-Ed Pages&#...

Last night around 6:30, I dropped by a local bar to enjoy a quick beer. As I enjoyed my cold beverage, I became aware that Laura Bush was on the TV, participating in a very long puff piece with ABC News: In fact, Mrs. Bush said she did not watch President Obama’s address to Congress on Tuesday...

Last week i called Goldman Sachs and asked if they’ll be returning the money they say they didn’t need. This week, I got a call back from none other than Lucas van Praag, the subject of much humor at ,a href=”http://www.1440wallstreet.com/index.php/search/results/2277299fba52081801...

It seems the only mainstream coverage of the last night’s bduget forum, the first of four, is on one of the daily News’ blogs, which speaks to the growing irrelevance of Philadelphia Media Holdings. From the outset, I’ve been concerned that the forums were going to be an exercise i...

yesterday we learned that the CEOs of Goldman Sachs and Bank of America told the House Financial Services Committee that they “did not feel like [they] needed the 15 billion” in bailout funds: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs: “I don’t necessarily think it was necessary at the tim...

I guess this means they’ll be giving the money back: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs: “I don’t necessarily think it was necessary at the time, but — and this was said at the time — they were looking ahead at an emerging recession that was going to get worse, and for...