The outcome of a legislative tussle over rum taxes between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands remains in doubt, but there is already one clear winner - the House's top tax writer, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who is pocketing camp
An internal review by the board of directors of the community organization ACORN determined that the amount allegedly embezzled from the community organization was $5 million, well more than the previously reported amount of nearly $1 million, accord
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to keep court documents on sex abuse cases involving Connecticut Catholic clergy sealed temporarily. The diocese has been struggling for years to keep the documents sealed, and the request to
Rep. Charlie Rangel ducked reporters’ questions about his ethics troubles and heard a nasty catcall from a passerby during a Manhattan news conference this afternoon.
EINSTEIN DEFINED insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Next month, will Philadelphians hoping for an improved city again elect nothing but Democrats and expect a different result?
Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a democrat, told FOX News that not only was ACORN turning in bogus voter registrations but that they were hiring prisoners for their voter registration drives.
A recurring theme on Zero Hedge over the past few months has been the inordinate (and seemingly inexplicable if one takes at face value the arguments for an improving economy) amount of insider selling of corporate shares, which has reached a stagger
Why isn't the government breaking up the giant, insolvent banks?
We Need Them To Help the Economy Recover?
Do we need the Too Big to Fails to help the economy recover?
No.
ACORN's attorney warned the group last year that it needed to get its fiscal and managerial houses in order, reports Matthew Vadum at The American Specator Blog. That warning came in the form of a 15-page memo, Vadum reports, that is the "Holy Grail
The Serious Fraud Office(SFO) today announced it will seek permission to prosecute BAE(British Aerospace), Britain's biggest defence contractor, over bribery charges. In a brief statement, marking the culmination of an investigation last almost 6 ye
The Tom Woods' congressional testimony last week Friday in favor of the 'Audit the Fed' bill had two very curious turns, he set off extremely hostile questioning from two congressmen, by the hearings Committee Chair Barney Frank and Representative Me
Federal prosecutors name former Rep. John Doolittle as an unindicted co-conspirator in a corruption case against one of Doolittle's former aides.
In documents filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., last week, the government also allege
California Republican Representative Darrell Issa is another public figure hot on Bank of America's tail.
And this time it doesn't have anything to do with the Merrill acquisition, which is what most folks are concerned with.
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has been accused of having a lesbian affair with a Turkish spy. The Congresswoman is married to Robert Creamer, a convicted felon. The accuser, Sibel Edmonds, was a translator working for the FBI as reported in Am
The Obama administration is close to rolling out two initiatives aimed at addressing lingering problems from the financial crisis: A long-delayed effort to cleanse financial firms of their toxic assets, and a $35 billion plan to prop up state program
Schumer gets $1.65mm, or 15% of the $11mm given to Senators, from Wall Street since January 1st. Let's see if Schumer helps the Fed implement its scheme to dump toxic bank assets into your money market funds.
The discovery that Countrywide Financial Corp. recorded phone conversations with borrowers in a controversial mortgage program that included public officials -- and that those recordings have been destroyed -- has prompted new congressional calls for
Bank of America’s purported concern for “homeowners facing foreclosure” is interesting. I wonder how many them were prequalified by ACORN for subprime Bank of America mortgages that they now cannot afford.
In the past three election cycles, lobbyists and special interests poured $355 million into leadership PACs, making them the second-largest source of political money for sitting members of Congress.
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Host: Now one of the strongest opponents of government intervention in reforming the healthcare industry is Congressman Ron Paul,
Let me pose a question to you.
Let's say you own a $200,000 house free and clear.
Let's further say that you would like fire insurance. Just in case you are a klutz in the kitchen, for example.
It would appear from both word and deed that the whole Obama Administration is bundled up neatly and completely controlled by the dominant financial interests on Wall Street. While Obama mesmerizes the hoi polloi with amusing appearances on The Lett
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