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America 2012: Thank you Justice Roberts?

…Congressional candidate, and first executive director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation. A longtime favorite of the progressive wing of the Party she is expected to draw strong support…

"Encouraging Veterans to Commit Suicide"

…will look like.” (Link here). Veterans for Common Sense (nonprofit veteran advocacy group) Executive Director Paul Sullivan called Michael Steele’s comments a lie: “Let me be absolutely clear, Steele lied….

Fixing the fixing. Health care Deja vu

…average compensation for these 25 executives was over $6.2 million per executive. The median compensation for these 25 executives was over $4.8 million. The 25 executives with the largest unexercised…

CIA, TIA & RBC: Who was watching?

…under the sole control of the one office in government that was neither part of the Executive Branch nor part of Congress and as such categorically exempt from Congressional oversight,…

Who represents domestic manufacturers?

…more than the academics, labor leaders, financiers, chief executive officers and former officials whom the president has appointed (along with a media representative and a major Realtor). Like the rest…

Tax Exempt Hospitals

…looked at community benefit and executive compensation, and asked whether hospitals merit tax exempt status, at this link. The conclusions on community benefit were not very impressive–a few hospitals do…

Forgotten troops…National Guard

…state-level action against the war by asserting the war’s illegality, and relating it back to Vermont law. So, Fisher joined with attorney Benson Scotch, formerly the executive director of Vermont’s…

Set it and forget it policy initiatives…Guantanamo

…comprehensive case files on many of them. Instead, they found that information on individual prisoners is “scattered throughout the executive branch,” a senior administration official said. The executive order Obama…