March 31st, 2008 by Democrat News
“The temptation of Washington is to say that anything short of a massive government intervention in the housing market amounts to inaction”
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.
He leaves behind a trail of unanswered questions about whether he tilted the Department of Housing and Urban Development toward Republican contractors and cronies.
The move comes at a shaky time for the economy, with soaring mortgage foreclosures imperiling the nation’s credit markets. Read more
March 30th, 2008 by Democrat News
New York lawmakers are backing year-old federal legislation that gives airline passengers the right to fresh air, food and bathrooms when planes are stranded on runways.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer said he will push for swift passage of the legislation creating the first-in-the-nation passenger bill of rights. An appeals court this week struck down a New York state law requiring airlines to give passengers basic services aboard delayed planes.
Schumer says the law sponsored by California Sen. Barbara Boxer should be passed to protect passengers. The New York City area has the worst flight delays in the nation. Read more
March 29th, 2008 by Democrat News
“We obviously are legally compelled under the O&C Lands Act of 1937 to make other considerations, which are social and economic in nature.”
The Bush administration’s plan to ramp up logging in Western Oregon has come under sharp criticism from the government’s own scientists.
A team of federal scientists created to advise the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has issued a report saying the Western Oregon Plan Revision _ known as the Whopper for its WOPR acronym _ probably overestimates the habitat that will be left for fish and wildlife and underestimates the environmental impacts.
March 28th, 2008 by Democrat News
“Women … were persistent in the process … (Clinton) came back to Ireland time and time again to be with them, to hear them out, to hear about the progress they were making”
Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland as one of the top foreign policy credentials of her presidential bid.
Her critics point to an empty, wind-swept Belfast park _ which Clinton a decade ago proclaimed would become Northern Ireland’s first Catholic-Protestant playground _ as evidence that her contribution as peacemaker was more symbolic than substantive.
March 27th, 2008 by Democrat News
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s positive rating has dropped to a new low of 37 per cent in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday. via The Straits Times
March 26th, 2008 by Democrat News
“Will they leave this mess for the next administration?”
Big worries for the nation’s first high-tech census should have been obvious when tests showed some of the door-to-door headcounters couldn’t figure out their fancy new handheld computers.
Now, officials say, technology problems could add as much as $2 billion to the cost of the 2010 census and jeopardize the accuracy of the nation’s most important survey.
Census officials are considering a return to using paper and pencil to count every man, woman and child in the nation.
March 24th, 2008 by Democrat News
“The Government Accountability Office has been warning about this problem for a decade. And it seems to me in this administration, there’s been pretty much a culture of disregard for privacy, and that’s part of the problem”
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties on Sunday urged the Department of Justice to investigate the unauthorized searches of the passport files of three presidential candidates by State Department contract … via Hattiesburg American
March 22nd, 2008 by Democrat News
THE MIND OF OBAMA
Most of us diverse white American people have had a hard time understanding US Senator Barack Obama’s mind. We now know about his policies toward European Americans (more LBJ-syle set-asides, affirmative action, and quotas), but he has also provided us with a window into his mind about how he views us.
TAKING OFFENSE VERSUS ANALYZING THE SPEAKER’S MIND
The Hannity’s and Limbaugh’s and O’Reilly’s seem unable to discuss Obama’s willingness to label and describe us without getting tangled up in the concept of “giving offense.” Their lack of intellectual acuity doesn’t speak well for us.
March 21st, 2008 by Democrat News
“Our government’s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes.”
The State Department says it is trying to determine whether three contract workers had a political motive for looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s passport file.
Two of the employees were fired for the security breach and the third was disciplined but is still working, the department said Thursday night. It would not release the names of those who were fired and disciplined or the names of the two companies for which they worked. The department’s inspector general is investigating. Read more
March 19th, 2008 by Democrat News
“The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around; it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror”
President Bush says he has no doubts about launching the unpopular war in Iraq despite the ‘high cost in lives and treasure,’ arguing that retreat now would embolden Iran and provide al-Qaida with money for weapons of mass destruction to attack the United States.
Bush is to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Wednesday with a speech at the Pentagon. Excerpts of his address were released Tuesday night by the White House.
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