Monthly Archives: March 2009

Caught on Tape: Bribes, Public Corruption – In one brazen crime in Tennessee, cameras caught then-Hamilton County Sheriff William Horace “Billy” Long taking thousands in bribes and embracing corruption to the core. Upon taking a wad of cash from an … Continue reading →

Rep. Michele Bachmann Said She Wants Residents of Her State “Armed and Dangerous” over President Barack Obama’s Plan to Reduce Global Warming – Controversial Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said this weekend that she wants residents of her state “armed and … Continue reading →

Institutions, which humans create, tend to reflect the values of the humans that created/control them. These institutions can be corrupt and harmful or they can do good. The difference is whether the individuals in charge of the institution feel empathy … Continue reading →

Election Officials Committed Voter Fraud According to Indictment Five Clay County, Kentucky officials, including the circuit court judge, the county clerk, and election officers were arrested Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges accusing them of using corrupt tactics … Continue reading →

CNBC Has Been Doing Public Relations for Wall Street. Time to Fix CNBC! – Financial news networks like CNBC that promoted Wall Street propaganda and then blamed the financial crisis on “losers” who couldn’t make their mortgage payments. Now we’re … Continue reading →

Bush-Era Food and Drug Administration Only Inspected 5% of Nation’s Food-Processing Facilities – Thirty-five years ago, the F.D.A. did annual inspections of about half of the nation’s food-processing facilities. Last year, the agency inspected just 7,000 of the nearly 150,000 … Continue reading →

Republicans are distorting the facts, and we need to set the record straight: Obama’s budget asks far less of the rich than President Reagan or Nixon did. Just look at the graph below.     This is ridiculous. The media … Continue reading →

Hannity Spreads Falsehood About Obama Earmarks Promise – Throughout his Fox News show on 3/11/2009, Sean Hannity repeated the falsehood that Barack Obama had promised to eliminate earmarks. In fact, as I previously posted when FOX News’ Ainsley Earhardt put … Continue reading →

“You Don’t Know Dick” – Given Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s new revelation that the military ran an “Executive Assassination Ring” throughout the Bush years which reported directly to Cheney, here, for the sake of context, are more of … Continue reading →

To Conservatives, Bipartisanship is Forcing Others to Agree With Them – From the Conservative Political Action Conference, “To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us, after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them.” Yes, that … Continue reading →