Carter = A Steward versus Obama = A Scold An opinion article written by senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Shelby Steele, helps to explain how confounding this 44th presidency is to...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 168 views | 3 recommendations | 8 comments
When the people of Massachusetts made their profound statement on Tuesday by voting for Scott Brown as their Senator, I couldn't help recall reading the testimony of Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, when she appeared before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) held its first hearing today. According to its website (http://www.fcic.gov/about/), the Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the...
opinion by Mike Kearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 582 views | 22 recommendations | 6 comments
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine not only writes brilliant commentary, he knows how to sum things up succinctly. He has been a vigilant watchdog on Wall Street along with Eliot Spitzer and others. "Geithner’s In The Soup "AIG said in a draft of a...
Many think that Government’s intervention in the market is acceptable, but to how far and which manner? There is no doubt that intervention works, seen the news. Goldman Sachs and AIG are paying out bonuses...
American International Group (AIG) will pay new CEO Robert Benmosche a salary of $7 million dollars per year. AIG received billions of dollars in bailout money from the government earlier this year. The salary has been approved in principly by Washington's new pay czar...
Despite overheated rhetoric by its defenders, history will not prove kind to George W. Bush and his foreign policy decisions that have been or well be debacles. The Obama administration is quite right to argue repeatedly that the Bush team left behind a foreign policy mess...
Surfing through the morning news headlines, I found some nuggets of news that caused me to pause for a moment and thought they might have a similar effect on you: NO CHRYSLER DEALERS LEFT IN DETROIT: Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit’s East Side stopped...
opinion by BMCWrites | 2 years ago 99 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In an investigative report that aired last night on NBC affiliate KSDK Channel 5, reporter Leisa Zigman tried to stoke the fires of anger and discontent that have been brewing in St. Louis ever since the 2008...
opinion by BMCWrites | 2 years ago 566 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" The 2008 AIG bonus pool just keeps getting larger and larger. In a response to detailed questions from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the company has offered a third assessment of exactly how much it paid out in...
Insurance giant AIG has angered Americans by receiving billions in bailout money and millions in bonuses, now a new report says that AIG often turns down the injury claims of American contractors who have lost...
The corporate owned mass media, has vocalized loudly about an apparent "shift to the left" in the United States. This includes decries from veteran CNN Harvard University educated Lou Dobbs, who has cried out...
created by agora | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 445 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Written by Phil Gremillion, a man described as "a businessman, farmer, inventor and Cajun who lives in Lafayette (La.)," a commentary published today in The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette, La., follows perfectly on...
opinion by BMCWrites | 2 years ago 371 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments