And now our president—whose own wife and daughters are descendants of slave victims of another era of American atrocities—is telling us we should do the same thing as Germany and Japan: forget and move on
"It's essentially the same stance taken by George Bush," Colbert added, "With one important difference: Obama makes the kids like it." Sad because it's funny because it's true.
"Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator...
Gibbs continued the joke. Noting that the dog might be spotted on the White House lawn later in the day or that it might not, he added that "the dog has also not talked to the Spanish about impending torture cases." More laughter
Marchionne purged Fiat's management, bringing in outsiders and ordering up snappier car models that helped double Fiat's market share in four years. He demonstrated skills as a dealmaker, extracting $4 billion from General Motors to end a com
The bill's draft states that "the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic" and would give the government ongoing access to "all relevant data concerning (critical infra
A similar analysis suggests that the FDIC assumptions for GDP growth and home prices are already worse than the adverse scenario – let alone the baseline scenario – for Q1 of 2009.
Eventually, the report concluded, the United States would also have to attack Iran's ground forces, electric power plants and electrical grids, bridges and "manufacturing plants, including steel, autos, buses, etc."
The Treasury Department is directing General Motors to lay the groundwork for a bankruptcy filing by a June 1 deadline, despite GM's public contention that it could still reorganize outside court, people with knowledge of the plans said during th
The American People have been “Duped” again by some slick talking politicians.
First we had “Slick Willy” Clinton and now we have Barack “Obamaaaaaaaaa”.
I suspect that the "quantitative easing" nonsense by The Fed was directly related to the March remittance numbers which they had (of course) in advance, and in expectation of an ugly reaction in the bond market to those figures.
A Syrian man was arrested in Istanbul Turkey,a journalist for the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera - managed to obtain press accreditation and allegedly planned to stab the US president with a knife
In March, the deficit widened to $192.3 billion from $48.2 billion in March 2008. Outlays rose 41% to $321.2 billion from $227 billion, while receipts dropped 28% to $129 billion from $178.8 billion.
"The number one question I got as the first lady from world leaders -- they were excited about this garden," Michele Obama said. [Oh yes, she looks quite at home in a garden --- not!]
In another example of the collective hype gripping the nation, gay rights organizations are heaping praise on the White House for being so inclusive and diverse in this year's annual Easter Egg Roll—but they know it is really no change at all.
The government is completely out of control and desperate to send a chill down the spine of millions more Americans who are thinking of joining the burgeoning liberty movement, by smearing members of peaceable political movements as criminals...
"It just doesn't seem rational that any political leader would say, let's give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs," said Roy Beck, executive director of Numb
“There is no real purpose [of the stress test] other than to fool us. To make us chumps,” Black says. Black says Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is now essentially saying: “’If we lie and they believe us, all will be well.’ It’s Orwellian."
From the president's tacky appearance on a late-night comedy show to the kitsch gifts given to the British prime minister, and culminating in the jaw-dropping spectacle of a president of the United States bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia.
"Mr. Obama’s father was never a U.S. citizen; he was a citizen of Kenya here in the U.S. on a student visa, which by itself made Obama/Soetoro ineligible for presidency..."
The physical embodiment of hope and change is, along with the entourage and twelve teleprompters, on his way back to America--but not before filling the Turkish people in on the transcendent mystery.
It's earnings season and banks are going to pretend they are making money (or losing less than they are), and the Treasury does not want to interrupt those lies with stress test results.
Obama has broadened the government’s legal argument for immunizing his Administration and government agencies from lawsuits surrounding the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping efforts.
The Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and -- even if what they're doing is blatan
While the outlays can be explained by the massive TARP spending and other stimulus programs, the scariest piece of information is that receipts for March were $125 billion, $54 billion lower than the previous March.