Saturday, February 20, 2010
Obama promises $1.5 billion for home owners.
President Barack Obama Friday unveiled a 1.5 billion dollar package of measures aimed at helping victims of the US housing crisis, in Nevada, where the collapse hit particularly hard. "This fund's going to help out-of-work home owners prevent preventable foreclosures," Obama said, adding that the program would also help threatened homeowners pay their mortgages. The plan will include help for borrowers who now owe more than their home is worth after real estate prices collapsed, and will also aid those who took out second mortgages in a desperate bid to keep their houses...Link
Bob Barr jeered at CPAC.
Republican congressman-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr got a chorus of jeers at the CPAC conference Friday when he declared that waterboarding is torture. Debating the issue of whether terrorist suspects should be read Miranda rights and should have access to civilian courts, Barr argued that politicians are being allowed "to have their cake and eat it too" by choosing whether to place defendants in civilian courts or military tribunals. Barr said the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 provided the framework for how to deal with terrorist suspects, and said government officials should stick to that law...Link
Friday, February 19, 2010
California Bill to Legalize, Tax Marijuana.
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has reintroduced his pioneering bill seeking to legalize and tax pot in California. In a statement released this afternoon, Ammiano's office said the San Francisco Democrat hopes the new legislation will build on support garnered by AB 390, his first pot-legalization measure, which passed out of committee in Sacramento but overran its deadline for consideration by the rest of the Legislature.The bill's expiration last month appeared more or less in line with the grand strategy of Ammiano, who said he wanted to take plenty of time to build consensus on the issue. Now AB 2254, the latest incarnation of the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act, will get a second shot...Link
A new name will make it different?
ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq -- currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a new name. The new name: "Operation New Dawn." In a February 17, 2010, memo to the Commander of Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the "requested operation name change is approved to take effect 1 September 2010, coinciding with the change of mission for U.S. forces in Iraq." You can read the memo -- a copy of which was sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen...Link
The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden.
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to $555,000...Link
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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