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AIG execs whined for tax-paid bonuses, saw persecution as ‘McCarthyite’
The grasping AIG Financial Division execs who brought the firm to its knees and helped send the global economy spiraling only to receive federal...
Wall Street Journal: Make like a bank and just walk away...
Of all the interesting tidbits in Brett Arends’ article in The Wall Street Journal about how to decide whether to walk away from your...
Congress to consider anti-security contractor bill
Spencer Ackerman at the Colorado Independent's sister site in Washington notes that Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., wrote a diary at Firedoglake on a...
Bennet’s public option supporters mystified by Udall’s ‘weird’ silence
A trio of groups that has been rallying support for the public option health insurance plan is puzzled over the fact the Colorado Democratic...
Schwarzenegger calls out GOP stimulus hypocrisy
Here’s a profound idea from California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who went after congressional Republicans yesterday for criticizing the Democrats’ stimulus bill one moment,...
A libertarian complaint at national conservative conference
As the Conservative Political Action Conference chugs on in Washington, Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian Party, issued this statement reminding the world...
Conservative big wigs pledge to save country from tyrants, despots and...
According to Dave Weigel, writing at Colorado Independent sister site in DC, some of the top dogs of the conservative establishment gathered in a...
Your bailout money paid for lobbying campaigns designed to screw you
The top eight spenders in the financial industry spent nearly $30 million to lobby Capitol Hill last year, according to Nathaniel Popper of the...
Reporters (mostly) barred from Tea Party convention
The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention are not responding to reporters looking for basic logistical questions. Kevin Diaz explains that the convention,...
The resolution may be televised: C-SPAN asks to broadcast health bills...
The news that Democrats in the House and Senate will likely marry their health reform bills in closed-door sessions — not in a formal...