Billionaire Warren Buffett urged lawmakers to raise taxes on the country's super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments. "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
At least the robber barons of old built railroads and steel mills, whereas Goldman Sachs makes its money placing bets on people losing their homes.
Dr. Lani Kass was born, raised, educated in Israel, and reached the rank of major in the Israeli air force before moving to the United States and working her way up through the US defense establishment.
Israel may come under new pressure next month at a UN meeting on atomic weapons as the United States, Britain and France consider backing Egypt's call for a zone in the Middle East free of nuclear arms, envoys said.
Johnsen's stance for executive accountability was not merely principled but also the only defensible position to take within the bounds of international law - which the Obama administration continues to violate by overlooking torture and sweeping voluminous evidence of it under t …
The title says it all, and the articles adds: "with Israel's international image in tatters following its bruising offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza last year -- and with the U.S.
It's devastating to have a former high Bush-Cheney official state under oath that the last administration knew it had countless innocent prisoners, lied about it, and tortured many.
And then the coverup--And you see that this is standard operating procedure. The military was not at all concerned about what took place. They didn't even think there were remedial steps needed to prevent a future reoccurrence.
More than 200, 000 workers will lose benefits on Monday because Republicans do not want to treat their benefits as emergency spending.
WEINER: You guys have chutzpah. The Republican Party is the wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry. They say this isn't going to do enough, but when we propose an alternative to provide competition, they're against it.
2008: John McCain has not initiated any private discussions.