Three Years Later, 90 Percent Of TARP Housing Relief Remains Unspent
Struggling homeowners were supposed to receive $46 billion of federal aid under the 2009 Troubled Asset Relief Program, but a new auditor’s report shows that only 10 percent of funds from various...
View ArticleU.S. Economy Grew By 1.5 Percent Last Quarter
According to the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. economy grew by 1.5 percent last quarter
View ArticleBank Of America Cancels Foreclosure Auction On Minnesota Home After Occupiers...
Photo by flickr user gilsonrome Bank of America has decided to renegotiate the terms of a Minnesota homeowner’s mortgage just days before it was scheduled to be auctioned off following a week of...
View ArticleFormer Clerks Accuse Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Of Major Ethical...
Suspended PA Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin (R) For the past several weeks, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin (R) has been under suspension from her job and indictment for...
View ArticleWar and Peace: the Jewish Version – Jewish Ideas Daily
Imagine no religion—and, therefore, no war .
View ArticleWebinar for Transgender Education and Resources | Life: À La …
webinar sign up Sign up today for FORGE's August 9, 2012 webinar titled “Sex-segregated services: Finding resources for transgender clients?” Learn more by going to...
View ArticleThe Olympics: Nationality, Race, Color, and Ethnicity – blog*spot
Periodic commentary on current events, politics, religion , public policy, ethics, and justice, with some humor and satire. Sunday, August 05, 2012.
View ArticleFrom ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ to ‘New Girl,’ Five Television Shows With The Wrong...
While watching the new fall television pilots and revisiting some old shows that are back this fall, I was struck by a worrisome conclusion. There are a lot of shows that have picked the wrong person...
View ArticleA Movie And An Argument With Alyssa and Swin
I’ve mentioned this on Twitter, though perhaps not on the blog: Asawin Suebsaeng, Mother Jones’ movie guy and I, are now doing a weekly podcast. Fittingly, because we spend a lot of time violently...
View ArticleLady Gaga’s Record Label Wants Her To Lose Weight
Well, this is discouraging. Lady Gaga’s label has apparently decided that, rather than ordering costumes for the singer’s tour that suit her body, or letting her decide what she looks good and...
View Article‘End Of Watch’ And The Rise Of The Latino Cop
End of Watch , Training Day writer David Ayer’s third directorial effort after Harsh Times and Street Kings , is being advertised as a violent, aggressive movie that pits cops against cartels. To a...
View ArticleParis Hilton Apologizes for Anti-Gay Rant
Normally, I would pay absolutely no attention to anything Paris Hilton says, except that her anti-gay meltdown yesterday and her apology today are a perfect example of how the media’s learned to...
View ArticleBen Dimiero: Undisclosed: Fox Lets Bayh Do His Clients’ Bidding
Fox & Friends hosted former senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) this morning to rail against a tax on medical devices included in health care reform legislation passed by congress in 2010. Neither Bayh nor...
View ArticleRemington Shepard: Wall Street Journal Discloses A Second Romney Adviser...
The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Hoover Institute fellow John Taylor is a Mitt Romney adviser after not doing so when it published two previous op-eds by Taylor. The Journal has published a...
View ArticleMelody Johnson: Wash. Post Reports On Susan Rice’s Investments With Ties To...
A Washington Post article connected U.N. ambassador Susan Rice's investments in companies with business ties to Iran but didn't mention that Sen. John McCain, one of Rice's chief critics, has holdings...
View ArticleAdam Shah: Fox Analyst Praised Petraeus On The Air While Privately Relaying...
Fox News is deep in an ethics quagmire following a Washington Post report that the network's CEO Roger Ailes used Fox News analyst K.T. McFarland to try to recruit Gen.
View ArticleSimon Maloy: Roger Ailes And Fox News’ Lack Of Accountability
Politico's Dylan Byers neatly sums up the reaction, or lack thereof, to the news that Fox News chief Roger Ailes used a Fox contributor to pitch a presidential run to David Petraeus in 2011: No one...
View ArticleOlympia Snowe: Norquist Pledge Could Send Nation Over The Fiscal Cliff
On Friday morning, outgoing Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) attributed the GOP’s reluctance to reach a balanced deal that could avert the so-called fiscal cliff to Grover Norquist’s pledge, which prevents...
View ArticleBen Dimiero: Karl Rove And Marco Rubio’s Mutually Beneficial Alliance
Karl Rove has recently used his various media platforms to sing the praises of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and tout his role in the brewing debate over immigration reform.
View ArticleMatt Gertz: You May Have Seen These Fox Graphics Before — In A GOP Press Release
Fox News cribbed research and graphics directly from a National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) press release without disclosing their origin in order to attack President Obama's purported...
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