EXCERPT: PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov't more open with Obama?Mar 16, 5:28 AM (ET)By SHARON THEIMER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agencies haven't lived up to President Barack Obama's promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office.
An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions to withhold information from...

EXCERPT: I’m not talking about Biden going there as VP, which is clearly part of US foreign policy. I’m talking about trips that are not part of policy, more like affairs. And it’s not just congressmen. It’s also various lobbyists, and lawyers connected with federal and state government departments, etc.
This used to be a mainly Democratic party phenomenon, but over the last couple of decades it’s increasingly being done by Republicans also, especially the neocons and the evangelicals.
The...

EXCERPT: Reference: Get Corporations out of Our Politics!
My first reaction has been to condemn the SCOTUS decision to in effect take the binders off of coorporate donations, but after thinking about it for awhile I have changed my mind.
This limit on the entity under our Constitution called a "corporation" is an anomaly that needed to be fixed.    
Hmmmm ...  Could it be that the SCOTUS is throwing down the glove to force Congress to enact legislation to fix the...

EXCERPT: How do you guilty white liberals like your black man now. Heh
I told yas he was the worst of the worst. can you say 10% unemployed with no idea how to make it better?
good luck all of you broke ass Odummy voters...

EXCERPT: CBPP: 33 States Have Raised Taxes by $32 Billion/Year
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published State Tax Changes in Response to the Recession:
The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the previous 12 months. This 11 percent decline, the steepest on record, resulted from the impact on tax collections of lost jobs, reduced...

EXCERPT: The individual business person can be sued and all assets are on the line.    Incorporation is designed in part to shield the individual(s) in the corporation from the threat to their personal assets, but still have a "person" to go after legally.    As a legal entity, spelled p-e-r-s-o-n under our Constitution, it had to be given the rights of that entity - the only type of entity that the Constitution protects other than states.   ...

EXCERPT:   There is a movement by the ignorant and devious among us to throw dust into our eyes concerning two major philosophies and the endgame when they deteriorate into their extreme alter ego:
(or more) party political system     Democrat Socialist Communist   Single party political system
Any Fascism According to AZ Moderate. The NAZIs Were Fascists - not Socialists! The Fascist Brown Shirts are on the......

EXCERPT: It seems like everyone is writing a book these days, even Average this latest announcement is a testament to the obsessive need by the rightwing to justify the Cheney-Bush Regime’s attempt to destroy our nation and replace it with an imperial Fascist state.    Karl may have uncorked a genii he is not expecting with this attempt to excuse the inexcusable.  It could just be the thing that will finally summon up a long of the regime that has led to our current...

EXCERPT: Fear.  Be afraid!  Be very afraid! The socialists are coming!  The socialists are coming!    That RNC memo  Posted by Michael Tomasky Thursday 4 March 2010 13.25 GMT guardian.co.uk Washington is buzzing about the RNC memo that the Politico's Ben Smith got hold of, the one of a Power Point presentation whose slides include one of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker and others arguing -- the presentation was made to RNC members at a...

EXCERPT: America’s warfare state.
Liquidating the Empire
By Patrick J. BuchananFebruary 23, 2010 "Creators" - - A decade ago, Oldsmobile went. Last year, Pontiac. Saturn, Saab, and Hummer were discontinued. A thousand GM dealerships shut down.To those who grew up in a “GM family,” where buying a Chrysler was like converting to Islam, what happened to GM was deeply saddening. Yet the amputations had to be done – or GM would die.And the same may be about to happen to the American Imperium.Its...