State Department to field corporate contractor mercenaries in Iraq.

"The major bills before Congress to regulate greenhouse gases to combat global climate change suffer from "multiple unfixable flaws" that undermine their effectiveness...."

"Obama to women: 'I am not your friend.' "

"Reputation assassination": Fixed Noise spewing 24 hours of feces, along with other right wing scum like Andrew Breitbart, that punked this wimpy administration. and the o-the-traditional-media-have-integrity-and-honor">lack of integrity of the rest of the lemming like media.

"Another audacious whitewash at the DOJ"

The realities of heroism and military service...."as our media and our culture seek to elevate our troops into the pantheon of demi-gods....simply want to survive and come home with their bodies, their minds, and their buddies intact..."

"The Tea Party is a protofascist movement."

BP and Transocean witnesses decline to appear at hearing;  interesting timing...just when NYT published story about workers voicing concerns about safety at Deepwater Horizon and feared reprisals. 

 Meanwhile, the revolving door is set at high speed:  three out of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for the federal government.

"Seize BP"...."Obama could have demanded seizure of BP’s assets, but he didn’t. He could have dispatched Department of Justice lawyers to charge into court to collect the tens of billions of dollars of fines and penalties already accrued to date under the Clean Water Act and other legislation, but he opted not. The U.S. Congress could have, by now, enacted legislation lifting BP’s immunity for economic damages under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, but they have merely fiddled about."

Frugal minded consumers charging less on credit cards should beware: issuers punishing them by increasing non-penalty fees.