Senate to announce investigation...........

The Senate is quietly preparing plans to investigate allegations of torture under President George W. Bush, according to comments published Wednesday by Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). The Senate Judiciary Committee could announce a hearing to consider various plans to probe allegations of torture as early as today, according to Salon's Mark Benjamin, citing Committee Chairman Pat Leahy and members of his staff....Link

Obama's Iraq plan 'more like a Bush plan'......

President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Friday that he intends to withdraw roughly two-thirds of US troops from Iraq by August 2010. This anticipated 19-month timetable falls well short of Obama's campaign promise to have all troops out of Iraq by sixteen months after his inauguration. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow suggested on Tuesday that the administration was hoping for the Iraq news to be "sort of buried" in the excitement over Obama's speech on economic issues before a joint session of Congress. However, she did not believe this tactic would be successful....Link

the Jesus..........

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Peter Schiff Responds to Obama.................

Wall Street sinks as Obama warns of oversight.

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A review.........

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Is it time to Tax it?........

Reporting from Sacramento -- Could Cannabis sativa be a salvation for California's fiscal misfortunes? Can the state get a better budget grip by taxing what some folks toke? An assemblyman from San Francisco announced legislation Monday to do just that: make California the first state in the nation to tax and regulate recreational marijuana in the same manner as alcohol. Buoyed by the widely held belief that cannabis is California's biggest cash crop, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano contends it is time to reap some state revenue from that harvest while putting a damper on drug use by teens, cutting police costs and even helping Mother Nature....Link