While tens of millions are unemployed, poverty has increased, infrastructure is crumbling, mid-term elections to shatter spending records:  nearly $4 billion.

Obama's remarks about FDR are bizarre and untrue, shame on him; he can't even lie credibly when he says TARP cost less than the S&L crisis during Reagan's administration;  in addition, "people have to wonder if what the president wants and what they want is still (or was ever) the same thing.

GOP turning out every last fascist voter.

"How to restore the power of the unions."

Eleven dead and an environmental catastrophe that will last for decades:  Halliburton and BP knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable....and did not meet industry standards.... but still went ahead with the job,

Transparency International's new figures show perception of corruption in the US has steadily risen.

"The same forces that went after the unions in the 1980s, that relentlessly pushed free-trade agreements while manufacturing jobs evaporated, and that destroyed housing values in the 2000s— they're on the prowl again."

Argentina's former president, Nestor Kirchner, who died suddenly yesterday, stood up to the IMF and rescued Argentina's economy, '
and helped unite South America.

A couple of war criminals set to win House seats in Florida and North Carolina districts.

Even though the global recession pinched the profits of US arms pushers, "America's glorious arms industry did retain its position as the number one supplier of weapons to the world."

GOP, big business, and elections: Millionaire is funding Karl Rove's attack ads against KY Dem candidate for US Senate, Jack Conway, because Conway, the state's attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman's nursing home for allegedly covering up sexual abuse.

Private prison companies funding know nothing, bigoted, anti-immigrant, anti-human rights laws throughout the country.  These "for profit" prison corporations and their GOP cronies want to boost profit by incarcerating more immigrants.