"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
HOPE Program would reduce recidivism through closely-monitored probations paired with strict consequences for violators. WASHINGTON, DC ... Congressmen Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ted Poe (R-TX) introduced legislation that will create a new program to fight drug use and crime. The Honest Opportunity ...... more
Pondering Penguin (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Another pre-election day, another full mailbox. Campaign brochures galore. Some are glossy, and quite professionally created. Others, more on the attack mode and less sophisticated. Let's take a look at the bounty from yesterday: Two jumbo postcards with the same message - anti Annise Parker and Gene Locke paid for by 'Peter Brown for Mayor'. These fall into the attack mode category. One jumbo postcard...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Yesterday the House voted-- overwhelmingly-- to suspend the rules and pass Tom Harkin's bill to amend title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the program for providing life-saving care for those with HIV/AIDS (the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009). For normal Americans, regardless of party, it was a non-controversial, bipartisan endeavor and it passed 408-9...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
by Araminta Wordsworth Full Comment/network.nationalpost.com October 21, 2009 Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: Jamie Leigh Jones has waited a long time for justice since allegedly being gang-raped in 2005 by fellow employees in Iraq. She's still waiting, but made some headway when the Senate passed an amendment that will bar...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Texas: Cap and Trade Bill Lawmakers' Topic Monday Cap and trade, he said, was based on the false premise of global warming , and was designed to generate money for health care reforms. "The bill is a tax bill, to raise revenue for the federal government," [Ted Poe, R-Humble] said. "The $880 billion it was to raise was to be used as a downpayment on the health care bill." Does Bob...
Angie's Desk (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Yeah, that's pretty inflamatory. I'm feeling pretty damn inflamed right now, so I think that's appropriate. In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones, a twenty-year-old employee of KBR -- at the time a subsidiary of Halliburton, and hey look, they're hiring -- was working in Iraq. Her co-workers drugged her, gang-raped her, abused her so badly her breasts were disfigured permanently , then locked her in a shipping...
Like Maria Said Paz (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
" Activists campaign against rape in the military; new laws could hold contractors accountable " ( Free Speech Radio News ): This week, the anti-war group Veterans for Peace will be campaigning at Armed Forces recruiting stations across the US to demand that military recruiters alert women who are thinking of enlisting about the “high possibility” they will be raped by their peers...
The Political Fish (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Nothing to add to this speech. Thank you sir, could not have said it any better myself. © 2009, The Political Fish. All rights reserved.
Cup Of Joe Powell (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Tennessee Senators Alexander and Corker decided to vote against a proposal to allow victims of rape to have a day in court - along with 28 other Republican senators this week. I'd bet that vote will not be mentioned in their campaign fliers and stump speeches for re-election. Tennessee voters and Tennessee media outlets should ask them to explain why they oppose allowing rape victims to prosecute their...
Haystack Commentary (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I have written of her case in the past, but here's a short summary with the reason for this post : Today, the amendment offered by U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to stop funding defense contractors who deny assault victims their day in court passed the United States Senate by a vote of 68 - 30 Last Thursday, Sen. Franken introduced an amendment (S.2588) to the FY2010 Defense Appropriations Bill that...
J O S H U A P U N D I T (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Al Franken, The Democratic senator from Minnesota/ACORN gets a high five from me today. Yes, Al Franken. He won an important victory today. Back in 2005, 19-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones was a military wife working in Iraq as a civilian employee for Halliburton/KBR. She was quartered in a barracks in Camp Hope that was almost entirely all male and was subjected to harassment, which she reported to her...
Red Ink: Texas (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
But I'm afraid it might well be... This morning, a woman called in to Edd Hendee's show on KSEV and informed Edd that her friend's husband, who is deployed to Iraq, has not been paid in a month, and that he had been ordered not to discuss it. The wife of course was under no such obligation to keep quiet. When I heard that I thought to myself that it could not possibly be correct, or if it is, it can't...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Congress is poised to act swiftly on new penalties against Iran if international talks on Tehran's nuclear program show signs of faltering. And this time lawmakers are talking about trying to block gas and refined petroleum exports to Iran, possibly causing serious disruptions in the lives of ordinary Iranians. "If we want to get their attention, we have to do something real: sanction Iran's...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Congressional leaders say they are prepared to act quickly on new penalties against Iran if international talks on Tehran's nuclear program show signs of faltering. And this time lawmakers are talking about trying to block gas and refined petroleum exports to Iran. "If we want to get their attention, we have to do something real," said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.
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