Unless the public intervenes to somehow get Birkenfeld’s sentence commuted, or better, pardoned, we who pay our taxes honestly can be sure future potential whistleblowers will decide they’re better off talking only to their attorneys.
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Walgreens will provide free care for jobless
At a time when much of corporate America is deservedly in the doghouse for acts of overarching greed, we’re glad to be able to salute Walgreens for exceptional public-spirited charity. NEW YORK – Drugstore operator Walgreens will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and [...]
Fox News — taking it to the street
O’Reilly has a history of bashing rape victims as having asked for it, and Terkel cites, verbatim, one such bashing in which he named the victim. Its sterling reputation having thus been sullied, Fox retaliated against Terkel.
Busted botnet thief’s boss also a piece of work
“Calcanis posted a lengthy blog Thursday saying Schiefer was just a young, angry and stupid kid with problems when he created the attack that infected up to 250,000 computers.”
How do you say SNAFU in Russian?
Quote: “The war made it clear that we have all kinds of shortcomings in equipment, training, battlefield coordination, and intelligence. . . . There is no political leadership over military organization. . .
As if there isn’t enough to worry about
Think U.S. troops backed by tanks and armed with automatic weapons putting down demonstrations on America’s streets, and U.S. military spy satellites monitoring your communications.
Surge success exists mostly in Republican lies
From a letter to their Senate colleagues by Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, urging support for President Bush’s troop surge strategy in Iraq by voting for the defense authorization bill: “We invite you to join us in cosponsoring Senate Resolution 636, a bipartisan resolution that recognizes the strategic success achieved by the surge in Iraq [...]
Update: Senate passes highway funding bill
A couple hours after publishing our previous post, “GOP senators highjack road funds bailout,” we learned the Republican senators blocking an $8 billion infusion of funds into the federal highway trust fund relented, allowing the bill to pass on a voice vote.
GOP senators hijack road funds bailout
States and companies count on a steady flow of federal highway funds raised through an 18.4-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline. Cut or stop that money and projects stall, and companies can’t pay suppliers. Worse, up to 380,000 workers could go without paychecks . . .
Bush & Co. makes war a bottom-line bonanza
Rachel Maddow today cited a Congressional Budget Office study showing private contractors, 190,000 strong, far outnumber U.S. military forces in Iraq. . . .The factoid triggered our thought that if the Roosevelt Administration had used the same approach for World War II, it probably would’ve dragged on for 10 years instead of four, ending in stalemate or defeat, not victory.
