As mainstream pundits continue the Democrats-are-in-trouble conventional wisdom, I see a perfect political storm developing against Republicans led by the Dem’s hitting back on the radical U.S. Supreme Court decision, CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM’N ( No. 08-205 ). Correcting the Court – Democrats Unveil Tough New Legislation to Remedy “Citizens United” By Josh [...]
Israel’s Big and Small Apartheids By Jonathan Cook Israel’s apologists are very exercised about the idea that Israel has been singled out for special scrutiny and criticism. I wish to argue, however, that in most discussions of Israel it actually gets off extremely lightly: that many features of the Israeli polity would be considered exceptional [...]
No. 348-10 ————————————- CONTRACTS: U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND Harris Co., Rochester, N.Y., was awarded a modification to contract H92222-07-D-0008 on April 25, increasing the contract not-to-exceed funding ceiling from $422 million to $464 million. This 10-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with a five-year base period and one five-year option period, is for the procurement and [...]
From the White House: “Through All the Noise and Lobbyists and Partisanship… a Simple Choice” by Jesse Lee A Recovery Act that’s put more than 2 million people to work and helped bring our economy back from the brink, and provided the single biggest investment in the clean energy economy in America’s history. Sweeping health [...]
The Commerce Department reports that “[r]eal gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2010 after increasing 5.6 percent in the fourth quarter, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The news of the uptick follows a rise in consumer confidence reported this week. Economy grows at [...]
In the interest of fairness, below is a response to Veterans Today’s Congress and VSOs: Spitting on Veterans/Widows … Again (Paul Sutton, April 28, 2010). MOTHAX , author of the American Legion’s Burn Pit piece, Veterans Today: Inaccuracies and libel against Veterans Service Organizations, pictures a man with his head buried in the sand editorially depicting the [...]
President Obama is struggling to fulfill campaign promises to pass energy and immigration measures, but he’s poised to notch another victory for a stump-speech vow: to make sure veterans’ funding isn’t held hostage to the government’s bad finances.
As he enters his second year as head of VA, Secretary Shinseki is focused on reducing the disability claims backlog. “We are going to break the back of the backlog this year,” Secretary Shinseki said during a news interview last week. He’s counting on four pilot programs designed to identify and overcome obstacles that slow the claims process.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Portage, Wisconsin, Bend, Oregon, Hartford, Connecticut, Redding, California, Bristol, Virginia, Toms River, New Jersey, Tallahassee, Florida, Gillette, Wyoming, Baltimore, Maryland, and Smyrna, Tennessee.
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill welcomed members from all branches of the military Wednesday morning to kick off the Wounded Warrior Soldier Ride on the South Lawn of the White House.
No. 341-10 ——————– CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Foster Fuels, Inc.*, Brookneal, Va., is being awarded a maximum $57,121,141 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for complete ground fuel support, delivery, and record keeping. Other locations of performance are in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. Using service is federal [...]
The VA Task Force on Gulf War Veterans/Illness can be viewed at www.va.gov. The input you each have is critically important and all veterans should submit their comments at this forum on line at http://yourgulfwarvoice.uservoice.com/forums/44931-issue-1-leverage-deployment-health-working-group This is your chance to put in your own suggestions for improvements to Gulf War Veterans Care and Gulf War [...]
By Khalil Nouri Staff Writer / Editor Op-Ed Views in this article are mostly my own, few have been in conjunction with other Afghans mainly Kandaharis living inside and outside Afghanistan. As the U.S. gears up for the operation in Kandahar the plans have hit a bit of a snag. There’s a dispute raging between [...]
Linenthal, a professor at Indiana University and editor of the Journal of American History, says when histories accepted as reflecting accurately on events are revised, “The urge is to lash out at those doing it (the revision) as somehow being subversive.” When historians ask new questions about evidence or come across new evidence, or look at evidence in a different way, they are looked upon as “revisionists,” he writes, adding: “To my mind, any historian who is not intellectually senile is a revisionist.”
The oil spill that began when one of oil giant “BP’s” offshore oil rigs exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week was initially reported as leaking at the rate of 1000 barrels per day. Last night the Coast Guard upped the estimated leak rate to 5000 barrels per day. I assume that they are talking about the typical 42 gallon “barrel” the standard measurement for the toxic fluid now gushing from a pipe drilled in a hole in the sea floor. If so, that’s 210,000 gallons of toxic, flammable, carcinogenic, fish, fowl and coral killing sludge every day.
What’s good enough for Arizona is good enough for the enlightened souls in Texas. Immigration bill in works from Texas lawmaker, who called Obama ‘God’s punishment’ Anna M. Tinsley A state lawmaker wants to make sure that any candidate on the presidential ticket from now on can show proof they were born in the United [...]
VA honored three facilities on Earth Day for their efforts in ensuring a healthy and sustainable environment for current and future generations. VA’s Chief of Staff John R. Gingrich presented the 2010 VA Green Routine Awards to Martinsburg VA Medical Center’s “Waste Watchers” Program; Portland VA Medical Center’s recycling education program; and to the Oscar H. Johnson VA Medical Center for innovative recycling.
Amid a backlash from civil libertairans and law enforcement officials, Sarah Palin defedned Arizona’s new immigration bill. Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News and straightened out the record: No racial profiling in Arizona after-all. Sure, if you look brown and have no papers, you land in jail. The Fourth Amendment, the 14 Amendment, these rights are for [...]
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Ottawa, Illinois, Coldwater, Michigan, San Antonio, Texas, Panama City, Florida, York, Pennsylvania, Shakopee, Minnesota, New Orleans, Louisiana, Montrose, Colorado, Lynchburg, Virginia, and Rapid City, South Dakota.
Popular opinion drives the elected representatives for a change. By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON – Republicans set the stage Wednesday to lift their blockade against legislation to tighten regulations on Wall Street, opening a road to likely passage for the most sweeping rewrite since the Great Depression. GOP lawmakers said they would now try to [...]
Obama picks three for Federal Reserve By Neil Irwin President Obama plans to nominate three new Federal Reserve governors on Thursday, a source familiar with the plans said. The prospective nominees are: Janet Yellen, currently president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Sarah Bloom Raskin, currently Maryland’s top bank regulator, and Peter Diamond, [...]
No. 336-10 CONTRACTS: NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., MS2 Radar Systems, Syracuse, N.Y., is being awarded a ceiling $70,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the continued maintenance and sustainment of the AN/TPS-59(V)3 three-dimensional long-range radar system. This acquisition is for the continued post-production life cycle support of the AN/TPS-59 radar system and includes engineering studies, evaluations, and [...]
PREFACE The most important thing to remember about working while applying for or while receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is that you must report your wages, or your hours and wages from self-employment to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for each calendar month you work. You can report this work information by telephone at 1-800-772-1213, or you can report it in writing by [...]
- “What is more disheartening is the discovery that the veterans’ services organizations with offices in Washington have bought into and support the VA’s argument that H.R. 2254 (Agent Orange Equity Act) will cost too much and cannot therefore possibly become ‘law of the land.’” Some shocking news: The U.S. Congress and veterans service organizations are [...]
GOLDMAN SACHS TO AMERICA: “YES, WE DID IT, GO SCREW YOURSELF!” MASSIVE FINANCIAL FRAUD CONSIDERED NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT, ECONOMIC TERRORISM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor How do I explain short selling? OK, you buy a new car. The salesman puts sugar in the gas tank and slashes the tires. Then you find your warranty [...]
For those who doubt the strategy of a greater Israel. Related Posts:Israeli Wrecking Crews VS a State of Nonviolent SolidarityThreats of Lawsuits and Remembering NakbaObama Signals Complete Surrender to Zionism and Its LobbyGeorge Mitchell – Why it is Apartheid?US-Israeli Spring Will Bring Deployment of Thousands of US Soldiers
Diversity is What Union Bank is All About By Randy Miller Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $86 billion at December 31, 2009. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and [...]
The U.S.-Israeli relationship has proven itself a consistent threat to our national security. That peril has only worsened with time. The facts confirm a common pro-Israeli source of the phony intelligence that took our military to war in Iraq. Is that why the Israel lobby pressed the Congress for a pledge of allegiance to Israel?
By Robert L. Borosage at Huffington Post Senate Republicans have perfected the art of saying no. But in blocking a debate on financial reform, they have begun to imitate Goldman Sachs traders, selling positions that they are betting against. Blocking financial reform is, not surprisingly, financially rewarding, as Republican leaders lease themselves to Wall Street [...]
By Simon Johnson, co-author 13 Bankers at the BaselineScenario Most days we can coast along, confident that tomorrow will be much like yesterday. On a very few days we need to look hard at the news headlines, click through to read the whole story, and then completely change a large chunk of how we thought the world [...]
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