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New Orleans Reading the report was one of those Sports Center “come on, man!” moments. This couldn’t be true. The top Democratic were filing an amicus curia (friend of the court) brief with the Supreme Court to try to overturn the Obama Administration’s efforts to allow cutting the standards of health protection under Medicaid for [...]
Missoula Sitting around the campfire at the fishing camp with friends from Missoula and Helena last night, it didn’t take long for steak, chicken, roasted corn, baked potatoes, Fat Tire, and Jameson’s to turn to talk of the coming election and Montana’s role as a battleground state.
There was no happiness with yet more Obama compromise. [...]
New Orleans Ok, one hand is clapping. There was some progress on student loans under the Obama Administration. The huge billion dollar scam that was subsidizing banks was kyboshed and federal loans were taken away from the private sector. Furthermore, President Obama won some limits on payments and implemented some forgiveness programs, especially for public [...]
Atlanta Speaking of CFLs, incandescent bulbs, and LEDs, President Obama was in North Carolina visiting Cree, Inc., a large LED manufacturer, yesterday.
He was talking about jobs, which is a good thing, though mainly about engineering and high tech jobs, which is also a good thing, but is not going to deal with almost 10% [...]
New Orleans Sixty odd folks ranging from business, labor,, and even some advocates met with President Obama to talk about a new plan for immigration reform in the troubled political environment we now face and in the still painful wake of last year’s loss of the DREAM Act. A tongue [...]
New Orleans In a wild case of unintended consequences the current Republican attack on unions in New Jersey, Indiana, [...]
Mexico City My money says that if Treasury Secretary Geithner is designated to make the announcement on the Administration’s future plans for the housing finance mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it should be understood as a message directly to Wall Street and the housing industry, and therefore indirectly to the Republicans and the [...]
New Orleans Candice Choi’s AP interview with Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren who is now organizing the Consumer [...]
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