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The Economic Populist (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
In the December issue of Rolling Stone the journalist Matt Taibbi hits yet another grand slam exposing the murky world of Wall Street and Washington politics ("Obama's Big Sellout"). Taibbi provides a detailed and thoughtful analysis on the myriad connections between numerous Obama appointees and Robert Rubin, the Obama presidential campaign's economic advisor, and former Clinton Treasury...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
[JURIST] Enforcement of various civil rights laws decreased during the Bush administration, according to a report released Thursday by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO studied the activities of the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) between 2001 and 2007. According to the report, DOJ lawsuits to enforce laws prohibiting race or sex discrimination...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Enforcement of civil rights laws suffered noticeably under the Bush administration, says a Government Accountability Office report obtained by the New York Times. When compared with the Clinton administration, its findings show a significant drop in the enforcement of several major antidiscrimination and voting rights laws. For example, lawsuits brought by the division to enforce...
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Three Wise Men (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The NY Times reports that Congress is set to release a report by the Government Accountability Office that indicates that enforcement of civil and voting rights laws by the DOJ’s Civil Rights division dropped during the Bush administration: When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
... of the different calculations and strategies adopted this year by groups that opposed the Clinton administration's attempts to pass a health care bill in the '90s...
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Southern Rockies Nature Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the Indian trust accounts when she served as treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation for 13 years. The Clinton administration never settled, nor did that of George W. Bush. Commenters on the Indian Country Web site, however, offer additional perspectives. Furthermore, Ken Salazar almost won the Field & Stream Hunting and Fishing Heroes-versus-Villains Face-off.
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www.ECHealthInsurance.com/blog/ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Picture this: It’s 1994, maybe you’re still rockin’ that side ponytail and fashionably ripped up hypercolor shirt. Ok, ok, maybe. But hey the Clinton administration has been in office for a little over a year and things are lookin’ up from those down years with President George Bush right? One of the main initiatives on [...]
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Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
by KC Golden A specter hangs over the U.S. negotiators at the Climate Summit: the Kyoto Syndrome. Conventional wisdom holds that the Clinton Administration, and Al Gore in particular, blew it by agreeing to the Kyoto Accords without building the foundation for the Senate to ratify it, which it never did. (See, e.g., “How to Prevent Climate Change Summit from Failure” ). “America...
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EXCESS COPYRIGHT (Free subscription) | yesterday
... lobbyist , who worked for and now with Gordon Giffin, a former US Ambassador to Canada under the Clinton administration from 1997 to 2001. The CABC is big on such issues as the “Buy American” controversy that is hurting so many Canadian SMEs, such as Hayward Gordon (a 57 year old pump technology company), whose President, John Hayward, spoke so eloquently yesterday. Greenwood’s...
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California Greening (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was supposed to be in the trust nor how the monies were managed. That case was brought during the Clinton Administration and originally designated as Cobell vs Babbitt since Bruce Babbitt was then the Sec. of the Interior. We are now on our 3rd Sec. of the Interior since Babbitt (Gail Norton, Dirk Kepmthorne and not Ken Salazar) and the case has only now been settled. Details of the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
... out strongly against an employer mandate in the health care bill." Others worked with the Clinton administration, but the NFIB tried to kill it. "This year, though, the NFIB has taken the opposite approach on the issue...
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International Trade Law News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... security and economic competitiveness. Reinsch, a former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration in the Clinton Administration, also discussed current efforts by the Administration and Congress to reform the outdated system, noting, "for the first time in 20 years, prospects for reform are realistic." "That reform is overdue is one of the...
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Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the contradiction. They join the hysterical tea party movement to make their feelings known. The Clinton administration was passive; instead of actively propagating nonsense, it remained inert when opportunities arose, like the end of the Soviet Union. This allowed the free-marketeers to raid what was left of that agglomeration and removed attention from the fact that Russia’s...
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Le Monde diplomatique (Free subscription) | yesterday
The global market for nanotechnology was valued in 2007 at $135bn. Research and development in this field keeps growing, and many promising applications are already at the laboratory stage. In the US, the National Nanotechnology Initiative, established by the Clinton administration in 2001, had a budget of $1.5bn in 2009. Its main areas of research are defence, fundamental science, energy...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... The White House Office of Consumer Affairs thrived until being diminished greatly by the Reagan Administration, then de-funded by Newt Gingrich during the Clinton Administration. Obama needs to issue the executive order to bring it back. Consumer Watchdog has created an online application to let the President know we should be in the picture and the office should return. "...