At least seven Cabinet secretaries to President George W. Bush took politically motivated trips at taxpayer expense while aides falsely claimed they were traveling on official business, the independent Office of Special Counsel said Monday night in concluding a three-year probe.
A campaign has begun to defend a longtime professor and activist from the frequent attacks of Glenn Beckâand the death threats that the attacks have brought with them. Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old professor and political theorist, has been the subject of harsh criticism by Beck for years.
"The Catholic Bosses distract from their Evil with the Abortion ruse, like the Nazi-Israelis distract using the Holocaust, from their extermination of the Palestinians." SL
The government recaptured a record $4 billion last year from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other providers of care that defrauded federal health-care programs, the Obama administration reported Monday.
"If 10 of the world's neediest children watched you every second, every day, what would you do, not do? 'Live' accordingly, or you merely 'exist.' I do. It's Heaven." SL
"What would you do, not do, if Jesus, Gandhi, Eleanor R... were watching you all day? Live likewise, every second. Or, you exist, but you don't 'Live.'" SL
Almost a year ago the inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics, on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance. But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the sw
"Talkers dispose of Doers thru: A. EXPLOITATION!!!; or B. Assassination (Character when Physical's not an option) if they resist exploitation too long. Thomas Moore's a classic example, and MLK, Jesus... Animal Farm." SL
Republicans say Tuesday's State of the Union address will be the first test of whether President Obama 's post-election shift to a more centrist course is more than symbolic.