Political Madness At Its Best!
03-26-2012: After the first day of oral arguments challenging the landmark 2010 health care law, it seems clear that the Supreme Court will not let a procedural tax issue stand in th...view »
03-26-2012: The Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to send President Barack Obama legislation imposing new curbs on insider trading by members of Congress, even though the measu...view »
03-22-2012: The Healthcare law gives States a choice - They can regulate insurance companies themselves or opt out and let the federal government step in. According to the report, ev...view »
03-19-2012: Alabama's Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed, that the word "child" in the statute includes a "viable fetus" and therefore may be used to arrest and jail women who beco...view »
03-19-2012: A Republican from Oklahoma, has recently claimed that it is arrogant and "outrageous" to think that humans could alter the planet's climate - a climate that has been orda...view »
01-26-2012: The U.S. Senate will vote on the revised Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act on Monday, Jan. 30, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Thursday eve...view »
01-25-2012: On December 7, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor indefinitely postponed a scheduled markup of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act....This bill h...view »
01-23-2012: Federal forecasters are expected to confirm on Monday what the energy industry already knows: Oil production is surging in the U.S. - new production data from developing ...view »
01-13-2012: North America experienced the sharpest drop a 1.3-point loss. All three countries in the region: the United States, Canada and Mexico showed declines....The Index measure...view »
01-09-2012: Only Homer Simpson could pull off the perfect representation of today’s political talking heads and so called pundits. And sadly, he nails it... What should be all sat...view »
01-06-2012: In a strange and unexpected twist, Eric Cantor the Republican leader in the House of Representatives is now blocking progress on a bill that would definitively outlaw ins...view »
01-03-2012: The bill would require regulators to draft rules barring individuals and so-called political intelligence firms, which use their contacts in Washington to provide financi...view »
12-30-2011: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrup...view »
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12-18-2011: The executives are among the most prominent individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused of wrongdoing related to the financial crisis, and the legal ac...view »
12-16-2011: Improvements to the bill ensure that so-called “tipping” of nonpublic information will be explicitly barred, shortens the time period for public disclosure of investm...view »
12-15-2011: A Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their employees from using nonpublic information to enrich themselves....view »
12-14-2011: "China has decided that real assets are better than broken debt fix promises and low interest rates," says Paul Markowski.......Reuters reported last week that the People...view »
12-12-2011: "For all the transparency forced on the Federal Reserve by Congress and the courts, one of the central bank’s emergency-lending programs remains so secretive that names...view »
12-12-2011: The governors' chair is an increasingly powerful institution in most states, with the clout, control and visibility that has long made it the leading stepping stone to th...view »
12-10-2011: Internal e-mails obtained exclusively by CNN show a contracting officer assigned to manage price negotiations between HHS and Siga was alarmed at the cost. Siga's return ...view »
12-08-2011: "Remains of hundreds of troops left in landfill" a recently published report states the remains of MORE troops have been dumped in a Virginia landfill than the military o...view »
12-08-2011: "Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes fr...view »
12-07-2011: "Research finds that thirty big corporations actually spent more money lobbying the federal government between 2008 and 2010 than they spent in taxes. For example, Genera...view »
12-07-2011: Members of Congress are subject to current insider trading laws. However, some contend that current insider trading laws do not apply to nonpublic information about curre...view »
12-06-2011: "The bill would require television coverage of all open sessions of the court, unless it decides, by a vote of the majority of justices, that doing so would constitute a ...view »