Senator Chris Dodd is another elite 100 club idiot: giving the Fed and Bernanke who were either incompetent or complicit regarding the Wall Street caused financial meltdown "would gain new powers over non-bank financial firms and keep much of its authority over banks....[in] a new bill that leans heavily on the Fed to fix the U.S. financial system..."

Meanwhile, none of Obama's picks for the Fed warned of the housing bubble; these nominees must explain "what they think went wrong and how these mistakes could have been prevented."

Taking on China's currency manipulation head on; momentum building for action.

Deja vu all over again: DoD official running private contractors playing James Bond in a conflict zone.

Two stories conveniently missed by the mainstream media: botched raid in Afghanistan kills two pregnant women; "federal judge in Chicago on March 4 to compel former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to respond to charges by to US torture victims that Rumsfeld authorized their torture by US forces at Camp Cropper in Iraq"

GOP keeps on pushing Social Security privatization....GOP: greed over people.

US-Israeli kerfuffle highlights unspoken negative realities of that relationship; one given voice recently: "Israel's actions are endangering US troops in the region."

What happened to all those Dems who pledged not to vote for any health care "reform" bill that didn't have a public option?