Tragic. Simply tragic.
The Dallas Morning News reports that city’s VA Medical Center officially closed its psychiatric wing after the fourth mentally-ill veteran committed suicide this year. The hospital was rated the nation’s worst VA facility in a 1995 study, though a spokeswoman said that “more than $250,000 has been spent during the last six months to eliminate [...]
Categories: Military
Yes, it IS worse in California than anywhere else in the country.
Wait until California’s prime borrowers start handing their keys to the bank. “Here Comes the Next Mortgage Crisis California is to mortgage lending what Chicago is to pork bellies. For years, that meant it was a place with soaring house values; today, the foreclosure rate across the state is twice the national average and going up fast. Riverside County, outside Los Angeles, may be the foreclosure capital of the country, with a rate close to [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
Don’t let the headlines bolster your hopes too much. TPMMuckraker explains that it’s more cover story than real action.
After seven years of foot dragging and stonewalling by the Environmental Protection Agency, has the administration finally seen the light? From the AP: “President Bush is giving a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday on climate change to lay out the [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Environment · Global Warming/Climate Change
The candidate offered up a laundry list of economic ideas today, his most detailed description of what he’d like to do. Critics were quick to answer:
Our guest bloggers are Robert Gordon and James Kvaal, fellows at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Earlier today, Sen. John McCain outlined a series of economic proposals in a Pittsburgh speech. Here is reaction to his speech: Corporate Tax Cuts Are Still Front and Center: “By far, the biggest and most expensive part [...]
When you’re under the weather, you look for things to occupy the time. Stumbled on this today. It makes a great point.
What would you do with $3 trillion? Brave New Films gives you the chance to find out in a virtual shopping spree. Just look at what the nation could do with [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Now, I wonder if Clinton will follow suit. This could certainly get interesting…
When the Democrats took control of Congress there was hope that the Bush administration would be held accountable for its actions. Impeachment was taken off the table and so far the committee investigations haven’t amounted to very much. Should a Democrat be elected in 2008 there is the possibility that the Justice Department could investigate [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Obama
Today, April 15, was supposed to be the BIG day for Mike Huckabee – the unveiling of his new website and new project. Well….it didn’t come off exactly as scheduled and isn’t getting overwhelmingly positive reviews…
Well, today was the day that literally tens of people took to the interwebs to see what astounding revelation lay waiting at the end of Mike Huckabee’s weeklong countdown clock. Was the Rapture imminent? Would Mike Huckabee be birthing the Fair Tax Savior? Launching a [...]
Categories: Huckabee
Don’t want to even talk about it, but one article did catch my eye today.
The Internal Revenue Service expects to lose more than $37 million by using private debt collectors to pursue tax scofflaws through a program that has outraged consumers and led to charges on Capitol Hill that the agency is wasting money for work that IRS agents [...]
Categories: Taxes
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