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Conservative economists endorse immigration reform bill

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Lisa Mascaro - May. 23 (News Report) - More than 100 conservative economists will call on Congress to approve an immigration overhaul, highlighting the potential economic benefits. The letter by the American Action Forum, to be released Thursday, is the latest volley from conservative economic thinkers...

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The Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 22 (Special Report) - The biggest piece of President Obama’s second-term agenda is his widely expected plan for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new carbon regulations for power plants, a move that could bring the United States in line with the greenhouse-gas-redu

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Unions rip Schumer’s deal on H-1B visas

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Hill - By Jennifer Martinez - May. 21 (News Report) - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued a blistering statement on Hatch’s amendments Tuesday afternoon, calling them “unambiguous attacks on American workers,” as the federation vowed to fight them on the Senate floor. “Hatch’s amendments change the bill so that high tech companies could functionally bring in H-1B visa holders without first making the jobs available to American workers,” Trumka said. “Hatch’s amendments would mean that American corporations could fire American workers in order to bring in H-1B visa holders at lower wages.”

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Obama appoints Daniel Werfel as acting head of IRS

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb - May. 17 (News Report) - President Obama will appoint senior budget aide Daniel I. Werfel as the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, as that agency manages a scandal stemming from its targeting of conservative ...

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Some in Congress want changes in military law as a result of sex scandals

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Craig Whitlock - May. 16 (News Report) - Members of Congress said they are so angry about the crescendo of sex-crime scandals in the armed forces that they are considering fundamental changes to military law and other measures that the Pentagon has resisted for years. ...

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Acting director of IRS resigns amid furor over targeting of conservative groups

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Juliet Eilperin - May. 16 (News Report) - President Obama on Wednesday demanded and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, as part of a multi-pronged effort to quell controversies that threaten to dominate his second term. ...

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On Capitol Hill, Holder to face questions on AP phone records, IRS scandal

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Sean Sullivan, Rachel Weiner, Juliet Eilperin - May. 15 (News Report) - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to testify on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon, where he is expected to be grilled by lawmakers about the Justice Department’s decision to secretly obtain journalists’ phone records and peppered with questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra ...

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While Wronged Homeowners Got 300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got 2 Billion

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - May. 04 (Investigative Report) - not only were these consultants not so independent, not only did they very likely skew the numbers seriously in favor of the banks, and not only were these few consultants paid over $2 billion (over 20 percent of the entire settlement amount) while the average homeowner only received $300 in the deal – in addition to all of that, it appears that federal regulators will not turn over the evidence of impropriety they discovered during these reviews to homeowners who may want to sue the banks

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Study: There may not be a shortage of American STEM graduates after all

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang - Apr. 25 (News Report) - ..The EPI study found that the United States has “more than a sufficient supply of workers available to work in STEM occupations.” Basic dynamics of supply and demand would dictate that if there were a domestic labor shortage, wages should have risen. Instead, researchers found, they’ve been flat, with many Americans holding STEM degrees unable to enter the field and a sharply higher share of foreign workers taking jobs in the information technology industry.

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South Korea proposes Kaesong talks with North

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 25 (News Report) - Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk warned of "grave measures" if the North did not agree to the talks. Pyongyang blocked South Korean access to the site and pulled out its 53,000 workers earlier this month.

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Former chief of staff to break silence on Michele Bachmann

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Apr. 22 (News) -

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History lesson: the NRA’s ‘support’ for expanded background checks

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Apr. 19 (Fact Check) - “In fact, even the NRA used to support expanded background checks. The current leader of the NRA used to support these background checks.” — President Obama, remarks on Senate vote on gun bill , April 17, 2013 Read full article ...

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Contrasting Views on North Korea Underscore Sensitivities and Lack of Evidence

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt - Apr. 13 (News Analysis) - A sudden round of finger-pointing highlighted the sensitivity surrounding intelligence estimates in the wake of failures leading up to the Iraq war, and some subsequent missteps involving North Korea.

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Lawmakers hear from CEO opponents of H-1Bs

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Computerworld - By Patrick Thibodeau - Mar. 19 (News Report) - "If these outsourcing firms were not bringing in the entry level [workers], or they didn't have such a big pool of H-1B visa people available, then I think it opens the doors to making IT an attractive occupation once again, which I think is so important for an innovative economy," Keane said, in an interview.

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Billionaire has unique role in official Washington: climate change radical

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Feb. 17 (News Analysis) - When Thomas Steyer — a San Francisco billionaire and major Democratic donor — discusses climate change, he feels as if one of two things is true: What he's saying is blindingly obvious, or insane. “I feel like the guy in the movie who goes into the ...

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Data mining is new K Street gold

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Byron Tau - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Data mining is new K Street gold

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Secret funding of climate sceptics in the UK

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Bob Ward - Feb. 15 (Investigative Report) - The spectacular exposé by the Guardian of the hidden funding network for US climate change sceptics reveals a set-up that also exists in the UK, where wealthy rightwing donors secretly finance a highly professional campaign against policies to reduce greenhouse gases. The main lobby group for such sceptics in the UK is the Global Warming Policy Foundation, established by Lord Lawson, a Conservative peer. The foundation was officially launched with an article by Lawson in the Times on 22 November 2009, just three days after emails that had been hacked from the University of East Anglia were posted on the web in a bid to scupper the United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that December. Lawson used the article to accuse climate scientists of "manipulating" records of global temperature and of refusing external scrutiny of their raw data

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Top G.O.P. Donors Seek Greater Say in Senate Races

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeff Zeleny - Feb. 03 (News) - The biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts …

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Al-Qaeda branch’s image soars after hostage drama in Algeria

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick - Jan. 21 (News Analysis) - A week of violence in Algeria and Mali has transformed al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch into a cause celebre for militant Islamists around the globe, boosting recruitment and fundraising for the jihadists and spurring fears of further terrorist attacks in the region and beyond. Read full article >>

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Former Mayor of New Orleans Is Charged in Sweeping Corruption Case

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Campbell Robertson - Jan. 19 (News Report) - C. Ray Nagin was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on 21 counts including conspiracy, bribery and money laundering.

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Medicare Pricing Delay is Political Win for Amgen, Drug Maker

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Eric Lipton, Kevin Sack - Jan. 19 (News Report) - Just two weeks after pleading guilty in a major federal fraud case, Amgen , the world’s largest biotechnology firm, scored a largely unnoticed coup on Capitol Hill: Lawmakers inserted a paragraph into the “fiscal cliff” bill that did not mention the company by name but strongly favored one of its drugs.

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Obama presents bold gun control plan as NRA promises 'fight of the century'

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Ewen MacAskill, Ed Pilkington - Jan. 17 (News Report) - President pledges to use 'full weight' of his office to get sweeping reforms aimed at curbing gun violence through Congress Barack Obama mounted the biggest challenge in two decades to America's deeply ingrained gun culture on Wednesday, announcing a sweeping set of proposals to ban automatic weapons, limit magazines to 10 bullets, introduce universal background checks for all firearms buyers and increase scrutiny of mental health patients. At a carefully stage-managed White House press conference a month after the Sandy Hook school massacre, Obama said the US had waited too long to tackle gun violence and it was time to act. Flanked by a group of schoolchildren, Obama said: "This is our first task as a society: keeping our children safe. This is how we will be judged, and their voices should compel us to change." Obama said his reforms are intended to reduce not just these killing sprees but the everyday gun violence suffered across the US.

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U.S. CEOs push plan to raise full retirement age to 70

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - Jan. 16 (News Report) - An influential group of business CEOs is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to partially privatize the health insurance program for older Americans.

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Obama prepared to use executive action to restrict gun access, Biden says

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tom McCarthy - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - Vice-president promises swift action from administration at inaugural meeting of national task force on gun control.

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Secret and Lies of the Bailout

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed.

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