One of Glenn Beck’s big gold sponsors is in some serious trouble: Glenn Beck might, for once, be right: the government iscoming for your gold. But only if you happened to buy it from one of Beck’s advertisers, the Superior Gold Group. At the request of prosecutors from LA County and Santa Monica city who […]
Get ready to be pissed to the point of wanting to break stuff: A Morgan Stanley wealth manager will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because Colorado prosecutors don’t want him to lose his job. Martin Joel Erzinger, who manages more than $1 billion in assets for Morgan Stanley in Denver, is being accused […]
I am throwing my support behind saving embattled RNC chairman Michael Steele, and I hope all my progressive blogosphere buddies join in. Steele is going to be one of our greatest assets in November. The longer he can hold on the more damaging it is for the Republicans, so hang in there Mike!
AIG has already received over $150 billion from the government, and now they want an additional $60 billion: American Insurance Group, the insurance giant that is 80-percent owned by the US government, is in discussions with the government to secure additional funds so it can keep operating after next Monday, when it will report the […]
Something short of a miracle happened in Senate yesterday. An amendment to the Iraq Supplemental Spending bill was passed forbidding any money be used for permanent bases in Iraq. The amazing part is that this amendment was introduced by a Democrat – Joe Biden. Think Progress points out that the House has also taken a […]
From George Clooney: I am a liberal. And I make no apologies for it. Hell, I’m proud of it. Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you’d whisper “I’m a Nazi.” Like it’s dirty word. But turn away from saying “I’m a liberal” and it’s like you’re turning away from […]
BradBlog has been one of the greatest assets of the blogosphere. His in depth investigative blogging into election problems has opened our eyes more the the threats facing our democracy. His top article right now is another great addition to his dossier Sancho, the Election Supervisor of Leon County, Florida who exposed a number of […]
This has the makings of a big international political argument: TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea will not return to six-way talks on its nuclear programme unless the United States ends its financial crackdown on Pyongyang’s assets, Kyodo news agency quoted a senior North Korean official as saying. “Under such pressure, we cannot return to the […]