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Re: Morning Awful: CPAC Kulturkampf
02/10/12 7:31 am
Now Fatherland, Fatherland show us the sign... (Do you still think you can control them, GOP Establishment?)Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.
Category Archives: Financial Reform
Restoring Economic Facts
Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam is guilty on all counts: Although Rajaratnam never testified at his trial, the jurors heard his voice on dozens of tapes, and they did not paint a flattering portrait. The tapes proved that the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Foreclosure Fever
At HuffPo, Shahien Nasiripour reports that active duty military members have been victims of illegal foreclosure: The GAO report, which focused on problems in the mortgage industry and the lack of federal oversight, is the first official study to feature … Continue reading
The Culture Of Criminal Capital
Much to everyone’s surprise, HuffPo’s Shahien Nasiripour reports, the Financial Crisis Commission has ended its work by referring Wall Street malfeasance to prosecutors: Richard Bowen, former chief underwriter for Citigroup’s consumer-lending unit, testified that, in the middle of 2006, he … Continue reading
Fed: End Foreclosure Abuse
Put it in the just-like-Bush file: WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has reversed its opposition to new rules reining in foreclosure abuses, and will support stronger regulations on the nation’s largest banks, according to a source familiar with the matter. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: No Bailout For Democracy
From WaPo: Companies that received federal bailout money, including some that still owe money to the government, are giving to political candidates with vigor. Among companies with PACs, the 23 that received $1 billion or more in federal money through … Continue reading
Where Bloggers Go Wrong, I Think
David Axelrod has been floating the idea that banks just need a little more time, is all, after banks spent the last 27 months avoiding responsibility for mortgage fraud, therefore a national foreclosure moratorium is not needed. See how that … Continue reading
Foreclosure Fever
The president used his “pocket veto” last Friday to strike down an ugly bill that would have let banks foreclose on homes with out-of-state notaries. This was the banks’ way of trying to deal with all the bad paperwork from … Continue reading
Media Drops Finance Reform Bombshell
The president managed to get a consumer reform bill out of Congress, and the details look good. As HuffPo tells it: The era of the $35 cup of coffee has come to an end, for most. Whhhhhaaaaah? I thought the … Continue reading
Unions Pay $10 Million For Volcker Rule
Wednesday morning, the White House staff was admonishing unions for spending $10 million in a primary challenge that came within four points of unseating Arkansas’ Blanche Lincoln. By this morning they were walking it back. Why? Because meanwhile, Lincoln’s primary … Continue reading
Brownback Mountain
The Senate voted yesterday to stop incentivizing mortgage fraud. Mortgage brokers and loan officers will no longer earn more for sticking a higher interest rate in the fine print, and they have to prove you can repay the loan. They … Continue reading
The Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Firebreak
Can we just review one important fact about these two institutions before we have a Senate debate on them? They were both privatized in 1968 — a fact central to the story of the meltdown: In the schizoid reality of … Continue reading
