Charlie Rose with Jeremy Greenstock; Dianne Feinstein; Richard Lugar (September 26, 2002)
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington Times: As President Obama considers the way forward in Afghanistan, factions within his party are increasingly torn between their strong wish to bring U.S. troops home and their equally passionate desire to protect Afghans — particularly Afghan women — from a return of the dark rule of the Taliban. Signs indicate that after a lengthy review process, the president is leaning toward...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
California and Nevada lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday introduced an eight-year, $415 million bill to save Lake Tahoe from what Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called its imminent destruction from a host of ills ranging from invasive species to wildfires. The...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, as fierce a proponent of the public option today as she was skeptical toward bold approaches just a few months ago, accused the insurance industry today of "ribald"...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 68-29 to approve a bill that extends the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is part of a $681 billion military appropriations conference report for fiscal year 2010, and enables the Department of Justice...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Attorney General Jerry Brown says the goal of his radio show "was to provoke debate and lively discussion, not craft legislation." More than a decade before Jerry Brown's current incarnation as undeclared gubernatorial front-runner, he hit the airwaves of liberal Berkeley radio station KPFA five days a week to speak his mind. What he said then, as he interviewed poets, activists and the...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Margaret A. Bengs Now that gay "marriage" is legalized in a handful of states – not once by a vote of the people, but by a court or a legislature – a bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would overturn the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal recognition of same-sex marriage and gives states the right to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
WASHINGTON — Saying the U.S. mission in Afghanistan is in “serious jeopardy” and more troops are needed to combat an increasingly potent Taliban, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee stands at odds against an influential Democratic colleague on military matters.Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s views are more closely aligned with those of key Republicans than members of her own...
Faultline USA (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Barbara Sowell This October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, or didn’t you know? A better title would have been: National Cyber Insecurity Awareness Month. We should all be insecure since the U.S. has just relinquished its control of the internet (see below)! This is the time when all internet junkies should ponder the very real possibility of waking up one day to NO internet! A...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
The Associated Press: Officials called to conference on Calif. drought Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that mindset would just lead to more environmental lawsuits and delays. She said global warming was behind the drought conditions the state was experiencing. "We have a problem, ladies and gentleman, and it won't be solved by saying, 'turn the pumps on, turn the pumps off,'" Feinstein...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Congressional skepticism over the Obama administration's plans for Afghanistan mounted Sunday as four senators questioned whether more troops should head there and one lawmaker called for a withdrawal timeline. Democrats Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Dianne Feinstein of California and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois along with Republican Susan Collins of Maine said they shared colleagues' concerns...
California High Speed Rail Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Back in July the US House of Representatives approved $4 billion for HSR for FY 2010 - that's in addition to the $8 billion in the February stimulus. And as I reported a few days later, a Senate panel cut that number to just $1.2 billion . The Midwest HSR Association, which has been impressively upping its activist game this year, believes that a final, full Senate vote could come as soon as today...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Spent some time with the politically powerful California Nurses Association as they staged a demonstration in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's house. More on that in a minute. The nurses are a...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
The New York Times has a story here. The lead is criticism from former vice president Dick Cheney. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) expresses ambivalence about the wisdom of the inquiry.
Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Top Democrats, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are scrambling to return tainted money donated by one of the party’s biggest fundraisers after his arrest this week for fraud. Hassan Nemazee, a wealthy Iranian investment banker, has been charged with lying about his assets to obtain a $74 million bank loan and suddenly the Democrats...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
"For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well-being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts. … An important chapter in our history has come to an end. Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States senator of our time."...
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