DOJ Prepares Subpoenas In News Corp. Inquiry
To say that the year-old Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is under attack in Washington is like describing Little Big Horn as an engagement between the cavalry and the Indians. What we are watching looks more and more like a one-sided policy massacre by hordes of financial industry lobbyists and their enablers in Congress. It should be noted that Wall Street is winning the public relations and lobbying fight, but that markets are for real. When they fall like they did in 2008, they send an unmistakable message. No amount of lobbying money can change that. If we do not heed that message and institute real change, the next meltdown will be even worse.
From the moment the financial reform legislation was signed, the agents of its destruction went to work. While regulators plow ahead with limited resources against a fierce wall of resistance, much of what led to the financial meltdown remains unchanged.
Since one third of retirees are almost completely dependent on Social Security, any cuts will seriously be felt. But the Gang of Six obviously have made the decision to cut Social Security and they are not going to let any relevant evidence stand in the way.
You think you know a guy after 31 years of marriage, but last week, I saw my husband break new ground.
We need to start holding prosecutors accountable for bringing unjust charges like those just brought against an Atlanta mother -- even if they may technically be legally permissible.
As a starting place, I place side by side the two extremes of Murdoch's exaggerated influence on our lives, our politics and our self-awareness.
I don't know of anyone who doesn't have a money problem right now, in this economy.
In my opinion, committing to special interest political pledges is a violation of a politician's congressional oath of office which they take "without any mental reservation". Commitment to dearly held political beliefs is to be commended; but swearing blind allegiance to them is not.
Throughout the course of the NFL's lockout, fans took to labeling NFL players as greedy and overpaid. Such labels are unfair. Like any other urban legend, the myth that NFL athletes are overpaid can easily be refuted with basic research.
The Tea Party has their message and their movement, and it continues to impact the debate in Washington. But the movement to save the American Dream is bigger. There is a silent majority of Americans who are fighting back, and many of them have been fighting alone.
For a complete picture of what the earliest Christians "knew" about Jesus, the books of the New Testament are not enough. One also needs to read the books that did not make it into Scripture.
In an effort to convince women to jump on the bandwagon of antiquated beliefs concerning vaginal cleanliness, Summer's Eve commercials entitled "Hail to the V" now feature a modern, sassy, independent talking-hand vagina.
Today would have been the great liberal Senator Paul Wellstone's sixty-seventh birthday. Over the years since his death, most of us have only missed him more. And the gaping hole his loss created in our political system has only widened.
The ongoing challenge for women in the workplace is not to remake women. Solutions will come only with efforts to change the culture, particularly the culture of the workplace, to respect difference as fully as we have come to embrace equality.
What do John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson have in common with Michele Bachmann? Both former presidents also experienced reoccurring migraines throughout their lives.
As much as there are serious moral, legal and personality issues to consider with Rupert Murdoch, what we also see in the pictures are competency issues.
Jerry Byrne is the rare Wall Streeter who has gone to jail, and went there for a crime that involved less money than Lloyd Blankfein's chopper bill.
Some issues appear as easy to support as motherhood and apple pie. But not in the U.N. Security Council.
At the tender age of 29, trumpet player Ambrose Akinmusire, has garnered a plethora of accolades and acknowledgements this year for his recent work.
Eisenhower, Nixon, and Bush 43 all produced at least moderate income growth during their first four years in office; Obama so far has not. Unless the state of the economy improves, it's not likely to matter who he models his 2012 campaign after.
For me, the summer has been tainted by the collective demonization of some of the most passionate, caring, and hard-working professionals we have in this country.
It's worth noting that the media organization at the center of the phone hacking scandal unfolding in the UK isn't some new media upstart or unsupervised blogger of the sort the traditional media are always wringing their hands over.
Casey Anthony is hardly living the "beautiful life." She can't go home. She can't go out in the open. She hides from public view in a sort of inverted witness protection program brought on by at least one emailed death threat and the perception of a public fatwa.
It is time to launch a new political party, one with a very simply stated but enormous task, to get the special interest money and lobbying out of our government.
Our task as clergy is not to marry everyone who asks. It is to provide honest and caring direction to couples who seek to embark on that awesome task of binding their hearts and minds together.
Chris Crutcher, 2011.07.21
George Mitrovich, 2011.07.21
