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Thursday, March 12
Waters Helped Bank Whose Stock She Once Owned
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:57 PM EDT
Her involvement isn't new. Ms. Waters has detailed her financial ties in a series of federal disclosure forms and has been vocal in public in support of the bank. Those ties, however, have received little public attention. Nor is it well known how the influential lawmaker has over the years acted to support the bank and its executives.
Such potential conflicts of interest are more serious as the banking system's crisis has led the government to take an increasingly active role in overseeing financial institutions, including OneUnited. The financial-services committee on which Ms. Waters sits oversees banking issues, and the lawmaker is a potential future chairman.
Representatives of the bank and Ms. Waters didn't return calls seeking comment. Ms. Waters's congressional staff didn't respond to written questions about her and her husband's relationship with the bank.
(H/t: Steve)
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Justice Department Investigates Arizona Sheriff for...Enforcing...Immigration Law
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:52 PM EDT
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona following requests by congressional Democrats and allegations by liberal activists that the department has violated the civil rights of illegal aliens.
Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), and Robert Scott (D-Va.) requested the investigation, and activists groups such as National Day Laborer Organizer Network and ACORN launched petition drives and rallies in support of the probe.
The investigation focuses on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and dozens of officers under his command who were trained through the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ACCESS), which partners federal and local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws. (The Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division is known popularly as ICE.)
(H/t: Semra)
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Top British Civil Servant: Dealing With Obama Regime 'Unbelievably Hard'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 10:41 AM EDT
The G20 preparations were also hit by criticism of ministers for spending £6,000 on a logo for the summit to tackle the economic crisis.
Shadow treasury minister Greg Hands said: “The Government should be setting an example. Six thousand pounds for a logo for a summit seems excessive.”
The Government was urged to rein in the costs of the gathering of world leaders, with the Foreign Office estimating the total cost would be £19 million.
Taxpayers already have to foot a £6 million bill for event production firm Feltech/MRG to help stage the summit and security will also cost millions.
Tens of thousands of pounds are expected to be spent on hospitality, nearly £200,000 is being spent on a project co-ordinator and two events delivery co-ordinators, more than £50,000 has been allocated to pay for two moderating editors for the London summit webpage and design agency Start Creative has won a contract worth £40,550.
(H/t: Pete)
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Essay: The Durbin Amendment – The New ‘Fairness’ Doctrine with a Kicker
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:37 AM EDT
"...by any other name..."
Yesterday by a whopping 87-11 vote, the Senate added as a rider to the passed DC voting rights bill the Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA). The BFA, if also passed by the House and signed by the President, would kill once and for all the Censorship Doctrine -- also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.
Much Conservative celebration ensued. However, the revelry is misplaced and premature. It means only that the Left means to destroy Conservative and Christian talk radio by other means.
Because another rider was added via a party-line 57-41 vote. Written by Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, S.160's Purpose is "To encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest."
Hello, new "Fairness" Doctrine - the regulatory enforcement of "diversity" of radio station ownership, and localism as defined by the "public interest." Liberal censors are now travelling alternative routes to reach their original destination - silencing political speech on the airwaves.
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IBD: Rush Vs. The Party of Soros
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:32 AM EDT
Democrats say Rush Limbaugh is running the Republican Party. Better Rush than George Soros, who is running the Democrats. At least Rush believes in freedom, capitalism and letting you keep what you earn.
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Top 10 Senate RINOs
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:29 AM EDT
On the conservative scale, the ten lowest-scoring senators are:
1. Olympia Snowe, Maine: (ACU Rating: 12)
(Only one point higher than liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton who the ACU scored an 11, and an astonishing 4 points lower than Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid’s 16.)
2. Susan Collins, Maine: 20
(Collins received the same score as liberal Claire McCaskill, and 4 points lower than Russ Feingold’s 24)
3. Arlen Specter, PA: 42 (Only 10 points higher than Mary Landrieu’s 32)
4. George Voinovich, OH: 52
5. Lisa Murkowski, AL: 58
6. Mel Martinez, FL: 60
7. John McCain, AZ: 63
8. Richard Lugar, Ind: 63
9. Robert Bennett, UT: 64
10. Thad Cochran, Miss: 68
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Mexico drug lord on Forbes rich list with $1 bln
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:23 AM EDT
Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, blamed for thousands of deaths in a drug war, has made it onto the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune.
Guzman, who is just 5 feet tall (1.55 metres), escaped from prison in 2001 to set off a wave of killings across Mexico in an attempt to dominate the country's highly lucrative drug trade into the United States.
"He is not available for interviews," Luisa Kroll, senior editor of Forbes, said on Wednesday. "But his financial situation is doing quite well."
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Are 'Hope' and 'Change' Still Tax-Deductible?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 05:15 AM EDT
According to tax returns for Biden and his public schoolteacher wife, in 2006, their total income was $248,459; in 2007, it was $319,853 -- putting the couple in the top 1 percent of all earners in the U.S.
This, my friends, is the face of poverty in America. At least in the Democratic Party. It's located just below that row of hair plugs. The Bidens are yet another heart-rending example of America's "hidden poor" -- desperately needy families hidden behind annual incomes of a quarter million dollars or more paid by the taxpayer. My fellow Americans, we can do better.
The national median household income was $48,201 in 2006 and $50,233 in 2007. Working for the government pays well.
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S&L: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail (On 9/11)
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 12 Mar 2009 04:57 AM EDT
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed."
Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.
"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted.
The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: "They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails."
Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!"
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