Cash-Poor Governments Ditching Public Hospitals
Suzanne Sataline Wall Street Journal Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital…
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The Rich Vs. The Middle
Jonathan Chait The New Republic Chuck Marr goes through the CBO’s inequality data and pulls out this striking finding: This wouldn’t be such a big…
Nearly 50 percent leave Obama mortgage-aid program
Martin Crutsinger Breitbart Nearly half of the 1.3 million homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. The program is…
Al Franken: We Have a Free Speech Problem
Timothy Karr Huffington Post Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the…
The Big Things That Matter And The Little Things That Annoy
Paul Craig Roberts InfoWars I write about major problems: the collapsing US economy, wars based on lies and deception, the police state based on “the…
Google-Verizon Pact for Tiered Internet: It Gets Worse
Aaron Craig Huffington Post So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet…
No Message on the Bottle
Bottlers need to label the source of their water and provide honest information on their bottles instead of making spurious marketing claims. Leslie Samuelrich Other…
The Trust Crisis with Regulating Net Neutrality
Activist Post Since it was reported that Google and Verizon are close to a deal on so-called “net neutrality,” the policy debate has heated up in Washington. Of…
FCC Abandons Efforts for Net Neutrality Compromise: Allows Google and Verizon to Write the Regulations
Joelle Tessler Associated Press WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are abandoning efforts to negotiate a compromise on so-called “network neutrality” rules intended to ensure that phone…
Net Neutrality Upended?
Joelle Tessler Huffington Post Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are close to finalizing a proposal for so-called “network neutrality” rules, which would dictate how…
Breaking a Promise on Surveillance
New York Times It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to…
Our Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy
Dr. Ron Paul Campaign For Liberty I have often spoken about the excessive size of government, and most recently how waste and inefficiency needs to…
Halliburton 2Q profit jumps 83 percent
Raw Story Associated Press – Halliburton Co. says its second-quarter profit soared 83 percent as natural gas drilling activity picked up in the U.S….
Judge Napolitano: Bush and Cheney should have been indicted
David Edwards Raw Story Fox News’ senior judicial analyst made some surprising remarks Saturday that may go against the grain at his conservative network. In…