Come its next elections in 2014, the parliament's constitutional affairs committee wants voters across the 27 European Union states to pick 751 constituency MEPs in essentially national contests, but now also 25 super MEPs from an EU-wide list of candidates. The bill's sponsor, Liberal Demo... Read more...
Jedi Mind Tricks’ Vinnie Paz talks about working with Muggs and Bill on their new project Tracklist below... All songs produced by DJ Muggs. (more…) Read more...
A proposed $23 billion bailout of America’s educational system fell short of the support needed to save hundreds of teacher jobs. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, (D-WI) cancelled last Thursday’s committee meeting after realizing they would not be able to muster the... Read more...
Judging by Ben Bernanke’s recent abnormal behavior, we are quite confident the Fed forgot to add at least three zeroes to the latest version of the Benjamins. Here is how the government is spending money to recreate old money, just so it can print even more money. Read more...
A movement to impeach Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker is underway after Baker, a Democrat, refused to sign a multi-state lawsuit against the government for the new health care law. According to the Huffington Post (via Peach Pundit blog), Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, p... Read more...
President Obama claimed final victory on his top domestic priority Tuesday by signing into law a package of changes to the newly enacted health care reform bill. The signing ceremony at a community college in northern Virginia culminated almost a year of fiercely partisan debate and a tortuous le... Read more...
Ten states plan to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health care reform bill, Florida's attorney general announced Monday. Bill McCollum, the Republican attorney general under fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, told a news conference that the lawsuit would b... Read more...
(CNNMoney.com) -- If you haven't heard, big changes are soon coming for the credit card business. The CARD Act, which was signed into law last May, will finally go into effect Monday, meaning big changes for the millions of card-carrying Americans across the country. Among other things, it w... Read more...