In the wake of the brouhaha over the recent legislation passed by the State of Arizona after the murder of a rancher and decades of increased crime in that state due primarily to the open U.S. southern borders, it was announced by the Obama Administration that an additional 1,200 National Guardsmen will be sent to […]
Obama Sends Out The Guard: Far Too Little, Way Too Late
In the wake of the brouhaha over the recent legislation passed by the State of Arizona after the murder of a rancher and decades of increased crime in that state due primarily to the open U.S. southern borders, it was announced by the Obama Administration that an additional 1,200 National Guardsmen will be sent to […]
Why Authorities Haven’t Stopped the Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom
This story is a collaboration with Steve Henn of American Public Media’s Marketplace [1]. It was co-published with Salon [2]. During the go-go years of the real estate bubble, shady mortgage brokers [3] thrived, thanks to the sluggish response of regulators and law enforcement agencies. Amid the ruins of the crash, there’s a new boom […]
ObamaCare: Deceptive Details Left Out In Public Forums and Speeches
For Any And All Conserve-ative Americans: In listening to Barack Obama’s Western "Sell ObamaCare" tour, as a child of the 1950’s and 1960’s, the only impression that I had to a small fraction of his hard sell spiel in the various Western states on this ludicrous legislation in its current form is to that of […]
Iranian president to speak to US
As President Obama said in his inaugural address, our economic strength is derived from ‘the doers, the makers of things.’ The innovators who create and expand enterprises; the workers who provide life to companies; this is what drives economic growth. The financial system is central to this process. Banks and the credit markets transform […]
Georgia: Economic Slump Hurting
Once buoyant economy is hit by downturn and war over South Ossetia. By Tamar Khorbaladze in Tbilisi Having enjoyed double-digit economic growth for several years, Georgia is now bracing itself for hard times as it comes to terms with the double blow of the August war and the world financial crisis. Since October, increasing numbers […]