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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:34 PM

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

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First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting ‘huge crowds’ at her book signings

Oops. Something the propaganda organ of the Soviet Union might have done. I'm sure it was a simple oversight. Just like when Hannity did the same thing last week. ThinkProgress has the whole delicious story. John Amato is filing an FCC complaint. ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Federal Communications Commission, Soviet Union, Propaganda

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

American International Group Inc

Inspector General Report: Yes, Goldman Sachs was highly exposed with AIG

For the millionth time, why does Goldman Sachs get a free pass from Congress and the White House? The American taxpayer saved them from ruin so there is no reason why Goldman Sachs should not be under the same TARP pay conditions as fellow losers Citi ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: American International Group Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corporation, White House

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Housing data suggests bumpy times ahead

Some are suggesting the housing data is pointing towards a double dip recession. As the tax credit disappears, so may the housing market.Construction of homes unexpectedly plunged last month to its lowest point since April, the Commerce Department said ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Foreclosure, Recession

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Lawrence Summers

Calls from Congress to fire Timmy and Summers

The news never gets better when it comes to Larry Summers or Timmy Geithner. It's always about another TARP fiasco or whatever Wall Street wants. We're well past the point where Wall Street deserves one more cent. The call for change was missed with ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Lawrence Summers, Wall Street, Petition, White House

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

David Vitter

Senator Vitter doesn't even know what the Loving v. Virginia case is

More amazing video from the fearless Mike Stark.Just a couple weeks ago, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace refused to marry an interracial couple. That was a huge news story. And, it evoked a lot of discussion about the 1967 United States Supreme Court ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Loving v. Virginia, David Vitter, Mike Stark, Justice of the Peace

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Market News)

Morgan Stanley & Co

Wall Street on target to beat 2007 bonus numbers

That year would be the last year of the credit bubble before it burst. Is there anyone in Washington who cares to step up and side with the American public here? This is a sham and everyone knows it. If Congress or the White House had any sense of ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Wall Street, Morgan Stanley & Co, Bank of America Corporation, American Bank Incorporated

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Citigroup Inc

Citigroup increases executive salaries

The great American swindle continues. Under no circumstances should the Obama administration accept this. The Citi management may have issues today with "motivating" personnel but let's not forget about the massive amounts they all made during the peak ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Citigroup Inc, Kenneth R Feinberg, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Obama Administration

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Science returning to US contraception efforts

The Bush administration policies towards contraception, abstinence and abortion in Africa set everyone back decades. The policies sounded good in the right wing Southern Baptist churches but made little sense in the real world. Getting back to focusing ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Contraceptive, Kampala, Baptist, Bush Administration, Right Wing

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Let's agree to agree to delay

To some degree this is to be expected. The left let this issue completely slip away into the hands of the deniers. Even in the comments of David Horsey's latest, you can see the countdown and then the nutcases who start their usual denier rants. ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Horsey

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.The President returns from Asia today. Soon, but not before Thanksgiving, he's going to let us know his plans for Afghanistan. I'm hoping he includes an exit strategy. And, we have a health insurance bill in the Senate. Debate should begin ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Thanksgiving, Republican Party (US), Health Insurance

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Orrin Hatch on health care debate: "It's going to be a holy war"

Holy war? That's how Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is characterizing the upcoming debate on the health insurance reform bill:Republicans, who have criticized the Democrats' initiative as a step toward government control of the healthcare system, are already ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Orrin Hatch, Health Care, Health Insurance

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

I'm attending an Internet politics conference in Barcelona, and you're invited

I arrived in Barcelona yesterday for the Personal Democracy Forum's (PDF) first-ever conference in Europe (they've held annual conferences in New York). The conference is about the Internet and politics, but also governance. It should be quite interesting, ... [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Barcelona, Joe Rospars, Personal Democracy Forum, MoveOn.org

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Hallelujah .Fisher suggested the only way of ensuring that such financial giants do not pose recurrent problems is by making them smaller. "This means finding ways not to live with 'em and getting on with developing the least disruptive way to have them divest those parts of the 'franchise,' such as proprietary trading, that place the deposit and lending function at risk and otherwise present conflicts of interest" Fisher said in prepared remarks to the CatoCato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Dallas Fed President: stop 'coddling' and break up 'too big to fail' [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 18 hours ago]

...rules being debated by the House Financial Services and Senate Banking committees, according to a letter Wednesday to the committees' chairmen. "Real financial regulatory reform cannot occur without an examination into the structure" of the Federal ReserveFederal Reserve system, the letter says...

Democrats call for review of Federal Reserve [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/20/2009]

...”There was no outcry at the time.Bush's line was : "I believe they ought to be tried in courts here in the United States." Huh. Now, as Markos noted in his recent column in The Hill (titled appropriately, "Conservative Cowards"), Republicans are fretting, trembling and...

George Bush: Terrorists should be tried in U.S. Courts. [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 11/20/2009]

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