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Sunday, June 23, 2013
What Does a Casino have to do with Immigration? Nothing
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) have inserted a provision that amounts to little more than a handout to Las Vegas casinos into the repackaged immigration reform bill, Breitbart News has learned. This provision, a brazen example of crony capitalism, was inserted into the immigration law enforcement section of the bill despite the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with "immigration" or "law enforcement."
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New scandal surrounding New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Is Obama overplaying sequester hand?
Source: Politico:
President Barack Obama’s greatest adversary in the latest budget battle isn’t the Republican leadership in Congress — it’s his confidence in his own ability to force a win.
He has been so certain of his campaign skills that he didn’t open a line of communication with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell until Thursday, a week before the spending ax hits. And when they did finally hear from Obama, the calls were perfunctory, with no request to step up negotiations or invitations to the White House.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Flu shot doing poor job of protecting older people
Source:
It turns out this year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people, the most vulnerable age group.
The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in those 65 and older against the harsh strain of the flu that is predominant this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Health officials are baffled as to why this is so. But the findings help explain why so many older people have been hospitalized with the flu this year.
Despite the findings, the CDC stood by its recommendation that everyone over 6 months get flu shots, the elderly included, because some protection is better than none, and because those who are vaccinated and still get sick may suffer less severe symptoms.
Mexico security forces accused of abducting, murdering civilians
Source:
Dozens of people were abducted and murdered by Mexican security forces over the past six years during a gruesome war with drug cartels, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, urging President Enrique Pena Nieto to overhaul the military justice system.
The rights group said that since 2007 it has documented 149 cases of people who were never seen again after falling into the hands of security forces, and that the government failed to properly investigate the "disappearances."
Israel gives OK for oil drilling in Golan Heights
Source:
Israel says it has given the go-ahead for a gas exploration project in the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau it captured from Syria in the 1967 war.
Israel's Energy and Water Resources Ministry said Wednesday it has issued a permit for the American-Israeli company Genie Energy to drill for oil on the plateau. The company is headed by Effi Eitam, a hawkish former Israeli Cabinet minister.
Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 but the world still considers it occupied territory.
Oil permits for the area were stopped 20 years ago during Israel-Syria talks, which were to include a potential return of the Golan. The talks never produced a peace deal.
The drilling permit raises concerns it could draw international condemnation, especially ahead of President Barack Obama's visit to Israel.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Florida governor outrages conservatives with call to expand Medicaid
Source:
Florida governor Rick Scott, one of the sharpest critics of President Obama’s healthcare law, announced late Wednesday that he wanted the state to participate in an optional portion of the law after all.
Florida should accept federal funds to expand Medicaid coverage in the state, Scott said at a news conference, in a stunning reversal.
“While the federal government is committed to paying 100% of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot, in good conscience, deny the uninsured access to care,” Scott said. The Republican-led legislature must approve the measure for it to take effect.
Almost $50 billion left Russia illegally in 2012, bank chief says
Source:
Nearly $50 billion was transferred out of Russia illegally in 2012 and more than half this sum may have been controlled by a single group of people, the country's central bank said on Wednesday.
Sergei Ignatyev, chairman of the Bank of Russia, was citing the findings of a study that the bank said it would publish later on Wednesday.
"You get the impression that they (half the transfers) are all controlled by one well-organized group of people," Sergei Ignatyev, chairman of the Bank of Russia, told the Vedomosti daily in an interview.
Ignatyev, who is due to retire in June, declined to identify the group in response to a reporter's question at the Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, where he was due to deliver an address.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Aaron Swartz files reveal how FBI tracked internet activist
Source:
A blogger has published once-classified FBI files that show how the agency tracked and collected information on internet activist Aaron Swartz.
Swartz, who killed himself in January aged 26, had previously requested his files and posted them on his blog, but some new documents and redactions are included in the files published by Firedoglake blogger Daniel Wright.
Wright was given 21 of 23 declassified documents, thanks to a rule that declassifies FBI files on the deceased. Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
How One 75-Year-Old Soybean Farmer Could Deal A Blow To Monsanto’s Empire Today
Source: ThinkProgress:
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a 75-year-old soybean farmer’s appeal against biotech giant Monsanto, in a case that could permanently reshape the genetically modified (GM) crop industry. Victor “Hugh” Bowman has been battling the corporation since 2007, when Monsanto sued him for violating their patent protection by purchasing second-generation GM seeds from a grain elevator. An appeals court ruled in favor of Monsanto, and despite the Obama administration’s urging to let the decision stand, the nine justices will hear Bowman make his case today.
Monsanto is notorious among farmers for the company’s aggressive investigations and pursuit of farmers they believe have infringed on Monsanto’s patents. In the past 13 years, Monsanto has sued 410 farmers and 56 small farm businesses, almost always settling out of court (the few farmers that can afford to go to trial are always defeated). These farmers were usually sued for saving second-generation seeds for the next harvest — a basic farming practice rendered illegal because seeds generated by GM crops contain Monsanto’s patented genes.
Remember when President Obama supported the sequester cuts?
This is typical of Washington politicians, and of Obama. They take completely opposite positions on issues even within a year or two:
President Obama on the sequester cuts
November 21, 2011:
Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Prison inmates collect unemployment
Columnists - philly.com
DID YOU KNOW that Philadelphia prison inmates collected unemployment benefits while sitting in their cells?
They did: 1,162 of them got an average of $344 a week for, on average, 18 weeks. That's more than $7 million.
And many of the 25,500 inmates in other county jails in Pennsylvania did the same.
We're talking cash for cons - tens of millions of tax dollars paid by employers and employees fraudulently scammed by incarcerated crooks.
Makes you want to get up every day, go to work and pay your taxes, right?
Dissident blogger leaves Cuba
Dissident blogger leaves Cuba: Yoani Sanchez, a Cuban blogger and fierce critic of the governments of Raul and Fidel Castro, embarked on a long-denied trip abroad Sunday.
Study: Better TV might improve kids' behavior
And we wouldn't be as violent a society:
Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found.
The results were modest and faded over time, but may hold promise for finding ways to help young children avoid aggressive, violent behavior, the study authors and other doctors said.
"It's not just about turning off the television. It's about changing the channel. What children watch is as important as how much they watch," said lead author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
The research was to be published online Monday by the journal Pediatrics.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Transcript: 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' (2-17-13)
Full transcript. Excerpt below:
FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria.
On today's show, the gun debate and the state of the two biggest economies in the world. First up, on Tuesday, in the State of the Union, President Obama challenged Congress to vote on proposals to get weapons of war off our streets, but will it happen? Can it happen? We'll talk to a world leader who made it happen in his nation.
Then, Larry Summers on how to create jobs in America. The former Treasury Secretary
Transcript: 'Meet the Press' (2-17-13)
Full transcript. Excerpt below:
DAVID GREGORY:
And a good Sunday morning, the White House and congressional Republicans are now at odds on two fronts, the battle over the nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, it's now been delayed for another week that vote. And the $85 billion of automatic spending cuts which are scheduled to take effect in two weeks' time if no agreement is reached.
Rumsfeld's Secret Memos: The Push for War with Iraq
The Bush administration pushed for war with Iraq based on fabricated and distorted evidence. They just used 9/11 as a pretext for war. The case of "weapons of mass destruction" was never made and an excuse. The Bush gang did not care about evidence. They were intent on war no matter what. Even if September 11th had not happened the administration would have sought to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was all about oil and Israel:
Declassified documents show that Bush administration officials wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and were ready to start a war in order to achieve it.
Just hours after the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met in the Pentagon with Air Force General Richard Myers, then vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other top aides. Notes taken by Rumsfeld aide Steve Cambone (and referred to pages 334 and 335 of the 9/11 Commission Report) show the secretary asked for the “best info fast..judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] @ same time—not only UBL [Osama bin Laden].” Rumsfeld also tasked Jim Haynes, the Pentagon’s top lawyer, “to talk w/ PW [Paul Wolfowitz] for additional support [for the] connection w/ UBL.” Other comments from the notes: “Need to move swiftly…go massive–sweep it all up things related and not.”
Although the defense secretary had yet to be presented with any evidence linking the Iraqi leader to the World Trade Tower attacks, he was already considering whether the terrorist acts could be used as to justify a war on Iraq.
Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again
Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again
House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that civil liberties groups say would destroy the right to Internet privacy as we know it. An earlier version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA (pdf), passed the House back in April 2012; it died quickly under threat of presidential veto and widespread protest from Internet activists. But this week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) brought it back. What's going on?
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Nancy Pelosi Against Congressional Pay Cuts
If anyone deserves a pay cut it's the Congress:
If Congress does not act on the sequester by March 1, automatic spending cuts will go into effect, and one of the things that will be affected will be Congressional salaries. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came out firmly opposed to cutting lawmakers’ pay, saying it would be beneath the dignity of members of Congress.
RELATED: Nancy Pelosi To Fox’s Chris Wallace: It’s A ‘False Argument To Say We Have A Spending Problem’
Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that allowing the automatic cuts should be “out of the question,” and responded to a question about whether members of Congress would be willing to accept a pay cut.
World Bank warns economic powers: Climate change is real
Are they also part of some liberal scientist conspiracy? Hardly:
The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the finance chiefs of the world’s leading economic powers that global warming is a real risk to the planet and already affecting the world economy in unprecedented ways.
Adressing the G20 finance ministers at their meeting in Moscow, Jim Yong Kim called on the world powers to “tackle the serious challenges presented by climate change.”
“These are not just risks. They represent real consequences,” said Kim, calling the lack of attention to the issue by finance ministers and central bank chiefs “a mistake”.
No, Chicago Isn’t Proof That Gun Regulation Doesn’t Work
Source:ThinkProgress.org
Chicago had an outright ban on handguns from 1982 until 2010, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. So there’s no reason to believe that strict regulations on gun ownership were responsible for a spike in gun homicides in 2012, two years after Chicago was forced to loosen its gun laws. Moreover, there’s simply no credible evidence that wider gun ownership or looser gun laws reduce crime.
So why did Chicago’s homicide rate increase in 2012? Pollack says “there’s no simple answer.” But he points to three factors are particularly important: escalating gang conflict as a consequence of police crackdowns and shifting gang territory, outdated law enforcement practices, and — yes — access to guns.
Russian Meteor Highlights The Danger Of Space Funding Budget Cuts
Russian Meteor Highlights The Danger Of Space Funding Budget Cuts -
As hyperbolic as that may sound, it’s true: Asteroid 2012 DA14, the hunk of rock hurtling 17,000 miles above us today, wasn’t discovered until last year — too late to do anything about it, had it been on a collision course. According to comments from Ed Lu, a former astronaut and head of a nonprofit dedicated to protecting humanity from asteroids, “[w]e only know the locations and trajectories of about 1 percent of asteroids this size or larger [...] So for every one of these, there’s 99 out there we don’t know about.”
65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President
65 Republicans Supported Increasing The Minimum Wage When Bush Was President | ThinkProgress -
President Obama’s call for a minimum wage increase in Tuesday’s State of the Union address — like nearly all of his proposals — was met with immediate opposition from Congressional Republicans. But six years ago, many of the same Republicans supported a similar proposal backed by Republican President George W. Bush.
Indiana National Guardsman Gunned Down Protecting Young Son
Horrifying story. It's why we need new gun laws and greater ways of dealing with gang violence. The President should go to Cook's funeral:
Cook, who had only recently come home from a year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan, was in his car on his way to visit his grandmother on Feb. 2 when a gunman opened fire on him and little Antoine. As bullets suddenly rained down on the car, Cook threw himself on top of the boy.
source: ABC News
"When I got to his grandma's house they had rushed Antoine to the hospital already. He was in the emergency room," recalled Cook's fiancée Laquana Norwood in a phone interview with ABC News. "I didn't know where Will was. I saw his car outside. The police had everything taped off. After that I just rushed straight to the hospital and that's when I found out that Antoine had been shot in the left leg and a bullet had grazed his right leg and the right side of his head. They had found Will on top of Antoine."
Melissa Harris-Perry: President Obama Mentioned Poverty More in Last 4 Weeks than in his Last 4 Years
Perry is a staunch supporter of this President. But she is willing question some of Obama's lack of interest in the people who helped put him in office. She previously demanded that he go to Chicago and address gun violence. And he did. The problem is he is addressing these issues after he was re-elected. President Obama barely, if at all, mentioned poverty during the previous campaign. If only the left, including Perry, had demanded he address the suffering of the 99 percent during the last campaign. Dr.Cornel West did.
Perry today discussed Obama's "new found passion" for poverty on her program. He mentioned poverty 4 times during the recent SOTU. That's more than is his previously 4 SOTUs combined, she said.
Minimum Wage Rate was Higher in Real Terms in 1968
The minimum wage rate, in real terms, was higher in 1968 than it is today: $10.59/hour. So why is the President proposing $9/hour? And why did it take him 4 years to come out for an increase? The White House is claiming that raising the rate would benefit the economy. So wouldn't it have made sense to see to raise it in 2009?
Joe Scarborough: Wall St., Banks are Too Big to Jail
Joe Scarborough denounced a system where Wall St. and the banks engaged in criminal conduct and are not punished. They are instead rewarded for their reckless conduct with government bailouts.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Senator Elizabeth Warren comes out swinging against Wall Street
Sen. Elizabeth Warren went on the attack during her first Banking Committee hearing with regulators and asked why Wall Street banks haven’t been taken to trial. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and EJ Dionne discuss whether Wall Street should be worried.
Goodell paid more than $29 million by NFL in 2011
Is it any wonder that ticket prices are as high as they are?
Nice job, Roger Goodell. Here's your pay: $29.49 million.
NFL owners nearly tripled the commissioner's compensation in the 2011 tax year and likely made Goodell the best paid commissioner in U.S. sports.
According to the league's most recent tax return, much of Goodell's pay comes in the form of a $22.3 million bonus. His base pay was $3.1 million. The NFL was scheduled to file the return Friday.
President Obama has no Interest in Stronger Campaign Finance Laws
Source: The Sunlight Foundation, Huffington Post:
There's a certain conventional wisdom that President Obama wants stronger campaign finance laws, and to protect our democracy from the corrupting effects of money in politics.
It's a story that you should no longer believe.
The arc of the Obama presidency may be long, but so far, it has bent away from transparency for influence and campaign finance, and toward big funders.
There's the obvious examples, like promising (and failing) to put healthcare negotiations on C-SPAN, only to negotiate a secret agreement with a segment of the industry the reform effort sought to regulate.
Ohio man with gun at Batman movie acquitted on weapons charge
Criminal justice farce. This individual should not be allowed to carry weapons. The next time he will kill lots of people. Then we will demand to know why he was carrying a dozen guns. This case is not an aberration:
An Ohio man arrested after he brought a handgun and knives to a late night showing of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises", two weeks after the Colorado theater mass shooting last summer was acquitted on Friday of a felony weapons possession charge.
Prosecutors had accused Scott A. Smith, 38, of being drug addicted and in possession of a weapon, a felony that calls for up to five years in prison in connection with the incident last August at a suburban Cleveland movie theater.
Smith this week pleaded guilty to two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, but rejected a deal on the more serious felony possession charge that required him to give up his weapons collection and barred him from owning guns in the future.
Prosecutors accused Smith of being addicted to prescription pain and anti-anxiety drugs and using marijuana to help himself sleep, making it illegal for him to possess firearms.
Bush Was a Total Disaster, Obama Is WORSE
Source:
Sure, Bush made the rich richer.
But Obama has actually redistributed wealth from the middle class to the very richest more than Bush.
Specifically, income inequality has increased more under Obama than under Bush.
Indeed, inequality in America today is worse than it was in Gilded Age America, modern Egypt, Tunisia or Yemen, many banana republics in Latin America, twice as bad as in ancient Rome – which was built on slave labor – and worse than experienced by slaves in 1774 colonial America.
A new study shows that the richest Americans captured more than 100% of all recent income gains. As Huffington Post notes...
Fort Hood hero says Obama betrayed victims of massacre
Source: Sign of the Times:
Former Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who helped stop the deadly shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, claims that the US government has neglected the surviving victims of the attack, leaving them without proper medical care in the aftermath of the shooting.
source: SOTT.net
When 39-year-old US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at the Texas military base Fort Hood, he left 13 people dead and 32 wounded. Most of the wounded were service members, some of which were preparing to go to Afghanistan. But the gunshot wounds served as a setback for many, inflicting crippling disabilities that in some cases require years of treatment.
And the US government has largely abandoned the wounded soldiers, Sgt. Munley said in an interview with ABC News, which will be broadcast Wednesday night.
"Betrayed is a good word," Munley said. "Not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of. In fact they've been neglected."
Including Munley herself.
Financial Crisis Cost Tops $22 Trillion, GAO Says
Financial Crisis Cost Tops $22 Trillion, GAO Says - The Huffington Post [feedly]
The 2008 financial crisis cost the U.S. economy more than $22 trillion, a study by the Government Accountability Office published Thursday said. The financial reform law that aims to prevent another crisis, by contrast, will cost a fraction of that.
House moves to extend pay freeze for fed workers
Why not try freezing or reducing the unjustified salaries of the members of Congress. Maybe they shouldn't be paid at all until the politicians start doing their jobs:
House conservatives want to extend to a full three years the current freeze on cost-of-living pay increases for the nation's 2 million civilian federal workers.
They say that blocking a modest raise proposed by President Barack Obama for the last nine months of this year will save $11 billion over the long run and that well-compensated federal employees can afford it.
Democrats, and a few Republicans, say federal workers have already done more than their fair share in helping reduce the federal deficit and they are being singled out for punishment by anti-government lawmakers.
The House on Thursday took up legislation by freshman Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., that would block the 0.5 percent pay increase Obama ordered in December and scheduled to go into effect at the end of March. DeSantis said federal spending is out of control and his bill "tackles Congress and our bloated federal government head-on." His bill would affect across-the-board pay increases but not merit and longevity raises.
Obama’s SOTU TV Audience Numbers Continue to Drop, Now Lower Than Bush’s Lowest
The "magic" is starting to deminish. The President's words are just more empty promises:
The number of Americans tuning in to President Obama’s State of the Union has dropped every year since he first took office, and this year was no exception.
Four million fewer people watched Obama Tuesday night than the smallest audience recorded during all of President Bush’s eight years in office and all but one of President Clinton’s. (See graph.pdf for audience number comparison.)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Is Obama's Drone Policy Really Morally Superior to Torture?
Source: Sara Sorcher,, NationalJournal:
Here is the worst-kept secret in Washington: Instead of capturing and grilling suspected terrorists, as agents did during the 2000s, the United States now kills them from above. Yet where the morality of President Bush’s tactics chewed up years of public debate, Congress and the press seem less interested in the legitimacy of drone strikes than in the process (and secrecy) that surrounds them. Members questioned John Brennan, the CIA nominee who helped build the administration’s drone strategy, along exactly these lines. “[The debate] has really all been about the legality of targeting American citizens, not the overall moral issues raised by the drone program, or collateral casualties, or classifying any young men between a certain age-group default as terrorists,” says Bruce Hoffman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. In a CBS News poll last week, 71 percent of Americans said they support the strikes.
The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage
Source: The New Yorker:
The first statement we can make without fear of contradiction is that, at $7.25 an hour, the current minimum wage is pretty low. In nominal dollars, it’s gone up quite a bit over the past twenty-five years. In 1978, it was $2.65; in 1991, it was $4.25. But these figures don’t take into account rising prices, which eat away at purchasing power. After adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage is about $3.30 less than it was in 1968. Back then—forty-five years ago—the minimum wage was $10.56 an hour, according to a very useful chart from CNNMoney.
We also know that the U.S. minimum wage is low compared to its counterparts in other advanced countries. In France and Ireland, for example, the minimum remuneration level is more than eleven dollars an hour. Even in Great Britain, which is usually regarded as a country with a flexible, U.S.-style labor market, it is close to ten dollars an hour. Another informative chart, this one from Business Insider, shows that the U.S. minimum wage is comparable to ones in places like Greece, Spain, and Slovenia—countries where G.D.P. per capita and labor productivity are markedly lower than here in the United States. We have an advanced economy but a middle-level minimum wage.
A second important and (largely) undisputed finding is that there is no obvious link between the minimum wage and the unemployment rate.
Corporations funded secret elections group long before ‘Citizens United’
Source: RawStory:
Some of the nation’s biggest corporations donated more than a million dollars to launch a Republican nonprofit that went on to play a key role in recent political fights.
Like the nonprofit groups that poured money into last year’s elections, the decade-old State Government Leadership Foundation has been able to keep the identities of its funders secret. Until now.
A records request by ProPublica to the IRS turned up a list of the original funders of the group: Exxon, Pfizer, Time Warner, and other corporations put up at least 85 percent of the $1.3 million the foundation raised in the first year and a half of its existence, starting in 2003.
The donor list is stamped “not for public disclosure,” and was submitted to the IRS as part of the foundation’s application for recognition of tax-exempt status. If approved, such applications are public records.
Ex-San Diego mayor's gambling losses top $1 Billion
Of course she is not going to do time. A poor person with gambling debts would have been thrown in jail:
Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor acknowledged Thursday in federal court that she misappropriated $2 million from her late husband's charitable foundation due to a gambling addiction in which she won more than $1 billion but lost even more over nearly a decade.
O'Connor made the acknowledgement in an agreement with the government to defer prosecution for two years while she attempts to repay the debt.
O'Connor was the Democratic leader of California's second-largest city from 1986 to 1992. The two-term mayor was elected San Diego's first female leader after eight years on the City Council. She was married to Robert O. Peterson, founder of the Jack-In-The-Box restaurant chain.
Working less can increase productivity
Working less can increase productivity
- Reduce the workday to 7 hours. It would make us more productive. Its been over 70 years since the 8 hour work day was established. Time for a change.
No prison for faking NYC crane inspections
This man killed people. He should be going to jail.
A crane inspector will not be going to prison for fabricating inspections of New York City cranes including one that collapsed and killed seven people.
Edward Marquette was sentenced to five years of probation on Wednesday.
He was acquitted last year of all charges related to the deadly crane accident on March 15, 2008. But he was convicted of falsifying records of other inspections.
Marquette was also sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service and fined $5,000.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Controversial Cybersecurity Bill Reintroduced Without Changes
- The fight for our freedoms intensifies once again.
GOP 'Savior' Marco Rubio Mocks Climate Change
GOP 'Savior' Marco Rubio Mocks Climate Change http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/13/1588411/gop-savior-marco-rubio-mocks-climate-change/
Video: Boehner: "Congress does have the responsibility" to reduce gun violence
Ok. So why don't you do it?
One day after President Obama in his State of the Union address called for sweeping gun law reform, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he was glad families and victims of gun violence attended the address and that "Congress does have the responsibility" to "reduce that violence and the incidents of these mass shootings."
Marco Rubio’s Morning After Excuses Make His SOTU Bomb Even Worse
Marco Rubio’s Morning After Excuses Make His SOTU Bomb Even Worse: Sen. Marco Rubio is actually making his State of the Union rebuttal disaster worse by offering up a series of excuses that demonstrate he is not ready to be president.
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