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U.S. News- Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed
- Secret Service chief testifies on White House 'party crashers'
- Inmate With Low I.Q. Nears Execution in Texas
- Ohio man pleads insanity in 11 deaths
- Move to Repay Aid Helps Bank of America Shed Stigma
- Huckabee defends clemency for cop killer
- N.Y. Senate kills same-sex marriage bill
- 32 counts of attempted murder added
- Beyonce, Taylor Swift lead Grammy nominations
- Senate Breaks Health Stalemate; First Votes Today
- Subpoenas Possible in White House Gate-Crashing
- Justices appear to favor homeowners in Florida beach dispute
- Is Denver ready for a close encounter?
- Global warming e-mails prompt Republican letter to EPA
- 'Crossover' voters called key to Kasim Reed's apparent win in Atlanta mayoral race
- White House accepts some blame for dinner crashers
- Rising obesity rates imperil health gains
- Police think they have getaway driver in Seattle-area rampage
- Mammogram panel says guidelines 'poorly worded'
- U.S. Judge Opposes Republicans on Elections
- Integrity
- FLASHBACK: In 2006, Sen. Gregg Was Repulsed ‘Obstruction For The Purpose Of Obstruction’
- Kilmeade, Wash. Times make false claims about people "not invited" to White House jobs summit
- The Best Blogs In Life Aren’t Free
- Hemmer falsely claims CRU emails show scientists hiding "evidence of a decline in global temperatures"
- Fox & Friends crops Jon Stewart quote to suggest "Climategate" emails made him a global warming denier
- Gingrich Dupes Press By Recycling ‘Jobs First’ Plan Full Of Same Tax Breaks For The Rich He Always Pushes
- Gingrich pushes debunked claim on private sector experience of Obama Cabinet
- GOP congressman opposes timeline because Afghanistan extremists ‘wait centuries to get even.’
- Grayson Responds To Coburn’s ‘Die Soon’ Claim: ‘The Basis For What He’s Saying Is Delusion’
- Mall of America officials backtrack on banning non-English speaking reporters from Palin’s book event.
- ThinkFast: December 3, 2009
- Hannity falsely suggested "mainstream media" did not cover "General Betray Us" ad
- Quick Fact: Ignoring that rationing already exists, Bream advanced GOP attacks on health care
- City need not provide records in electronic format
- Bridgeport Diocese releases abuse documents
- Democracy Now! host detained at Canadian border
- Louisiana parish sues media outlets to block public records request
- Wyoming Supreme Court to redact personal data in court records
- High court throws out order to release torture photos
- Media groups urge review of death row interview ban
- Politics
- Abortion Fight May Be Next in Senate’s Health Care Debate
- Pelosi Rejects War Surtax
- House Democrats Eye Bailout Money for Jobs Package
- Bernanke Defends Fed’s Independence
- Obama gives Dems wiggle room with Afghan timeline
- Pakistan Is Crucial to Afghanistan Plan, Lawmakers Say
- Bernanke Defends Fed in Confirmation Hearing
- Parties Differ on Tanner Impact
- Pelosi nixes Obey's war tax proposal
- Rating Change: New Turn in Tennessee 8
- Dems fear another security breach in Salahi e-mails
- Afghanistan Speech by Obama Wins Over Some Skeptics
- Secret Service Director Takes Full Blame for White House Breach
- Move to Repay Aid Helps Bank of America Shed Stigma
- Afghans and Pakistanis Concerned Over U.S. Plan
- White House insists Afghanistan different from missed deadlines
- White House dismisses subpoena threat for gatecrasher hearing
- Key Dems back Ben Bernanke for second term as Fed chairman
- Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Cost Controls
- Rep. Tanner’s exit signals more trouble for Dems than Moore’s
- LGBT News
- Sign the Petition Opposing Uganda's Death Penalty For Gays Bill
- Cardinal: 'gays and transvestites will never enter the reign of God'
- Hastings Introduces Bill Allowing Gay Troops To Appear Before Congress
- New York state lawmakers reject gay marriage bill
- Stonewall Democrats' Reaction To NY Vote
- D.C. Council OKs Gay Marriage
- New York LCR Issues Press Release Regarding Marriage Equality Vote
- NY: How the state Senate voted to defeat marriage equality - full roll call
- BREAKING: New York Senate defeated marriage equality legislation
- New York State Senate is debating marriage right now
- UN envoy urges Uganda to drop laws against aids patients, gays
- Mauresmo to Announce Career Plans
- NY Marriage Rally in Times Square
- Washington's statewide vote for full domestic partnerships is official
- Nate Berkus Sues Over Bad Caulk Job
- Meredith Baxter, "Family Ties" mom, is gay
- True Blood Casts Gay Vampire
- Ban Ki-moon Says End the Criminalization of Homosexuality
- World AIDS Day Speech Delivered in Maine
- Anti-Gay NOM Considered for Chase Bank Charity
- Perspective
- Vote for Susie!
- Tell Bernie Sanders, "thanks for looking out!"
- More Banking/Health Insurance Parallels
- Find God, get out of jail, slaughter again
- Throw Helicopter Ben under the bus
- Is the jobs summit just a photo op?
- Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq
- Plundering the Panthers, Manipulating the Movement: Re-Branding the Black Panther Party
- Obama's surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy?
- Freedom Rider: The Peace Prize War
- Black Jobs Prospects Descending to a “Deeper Level of Hell”
- Justice Department Sides with ACORN – for Its Own Reasons
- In Honduras and Haiti, the U.S. Rules by Proxy
- Rwanda, the RPF and the Myth of Non-Intervention
- Remembering Fred Hampton, 40 Years Later
- Serena Williams’ Record Fine is Just A Distraction
- U.S. Christian Right Promotes Homophobia in Africa
- No one at the wheel in Afghanistan
- Mike Huckabee's fatally bad judgment
- Unemployment: Going beyond short-term fixes
- Viewpoint
- Working proposal for a new movement: the Justice Party
- MW: The Twelve Days of Obamamas
- Remember when cops had to get warrants?
- When Doves Cry
- About this Tiger Woods thing....
- Quick links: today is “Stop Stupak” day
- Action Wednesday: World AIDS Day, Health Care Activism
- The presidency as performance
- Jesse Ventura on how to get a free house
- Afghanistan
- Open thread countdown to THE BEST SPEECH EVER!!!
- Morning Widdershins: Change You Can Xerox!
- My first lawsuit threat!
- The female Andrew Jackson
- I Think I Already Want My Twenty Bucks Back
- Could Donna Brazile be MORE of a hypocrite?
- Morning Widdershins: The Litmus Test
- A more Diocletiany follow-up to the Diocletian post
- Sunday Widdershins: Propaganda, Polling and the Public Option
- Actual photos of XENU! For real! No fooling!
- World News
- Putin’s Annual Q&A Highlights His Grip on Power
- Pakistan Is Crucial to Afghanistan Plan, Lawmakers Say
- India Announces Plan to Slow Emissions
- Italy May Add 1,000 Extra Troops in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan Speech by Obama Wins Over Some Skeptics
- Afghans See Sharp Shift in U.S. Tone
- Afghans and Pakistanis Concerned Over U.S. Plan
- Bin Laden Not in Pakistan, Prime Minister Says
- Most New U.S. Forces for Afghanistan Will Be Sent to Taliban Stronghold in South
- Obama Team Defends Policy on Afghanistan
- Arms dealer tried to buy U.S. weapons for Iran, officials say
- Iran releases British yachtsmen
- Obama orders Afghanistan troop buildup
- NATO pledges 5,000 more troops
- Protesting freeze, Israeli settlers block inspectors
- Model's death highlights plastic surgery risks
- Suicides by foreign maids in Lebanon shed light on abuse
- Big names ask Iran to release U.S. hikers
- Former Soviet general: U.S. can't win
- Australia carbon laws fail to pass Senate
- Economy
- Working two jobs and still underemployed
- Treasury Guidance on Short Sales
- Dubai's Structured Debt
- Policy statementAnd I mean it.
- The CBO on insurance premiumsThe CBO has now given the Senate bill a clean bill of, um, health on both its budget impact and its impact on families.
- CNBC on Dubai World Debt Restructuring
- Black workers’ crisis may linger after upturn
- Things to comeWhat I see is years of terrible job markets, combined with political paralysis.
- Chicken Little comethVat's OK, then?
- Restaurant Index Shows Contraction in October
- US Treasury Announces "Mortgage Modification Conversion Drive"
- Chicago Purchasing Managers Index Increases in November
- Protectionism and the Great DepressionIf free trade is a good idea -- which it mostly is -- it should be sold on its genuine merits, not with scare stories.
- The Dogbert theory of the debtPeople think that repeating big numbers is enough to scare us.
- The jobs imperative
- Stacking the deck against kids
- Dubai: Government Will Not Stand Behind Dubai World Debt
- DetailsNow that the financial regulatory reform bills are progressing in both houses of Congress, it means that to really be on top of things, you not only have to read the bills, you have to read the amendments. One example is the Miller-Moore amendment (full text here), which passed the committee 34-32, only to run [...]
- What’s Wrong with Our Health Care DebateUwe Reinhardt has a post on Economix that zeroes in on Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s criticism of the new mammogram guidelines. Here’s the quote from Hutchinson: “So this task force says all of a sudden we’re going to change the guidelines that we have had for all these years. And now the public option may not [...]
- Coordinated Capital Controls: A Further ElaborationThis guest post is by Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His recent proposal that countries consider coordinated capital controls has stimulated a great deal of discussion, and here he explains how discouraging capital flows relates to arguments about the attractiveness of a Tobin-type tax. Paul Krugm […]
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July 16, 2009 — Lightpond Blogger