Right And Left Join To Reform Criminal Justice System
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 24th, 2009 5:45 am by HL
Right And Left Join To Reform Criminal Justice System
WASHINGTON — In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes…
Schwarzenegger Takes Cue From Wife, Parks Porsche In Red Zone
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just weeks after California first lady Maria Shriver apologized for parking in a red zone, her husband appears to have violated the…
Systemic Risk Panel Would Lack Independence; Treasury Secretary Would Call The Shots
If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial markets will…
Arianna Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama’s Katrina?
There’s a Category 5 storm about to make landfall, and the president and the officials in charge of preparing for the approaching disaster don’t seem to be particularly worried. Sound familiar? Just as Katrina exposed critical weaknesses in the priorities and competence of the Bush administration, the unfolding unemployment disaster is threatening to do the same for the Obama White House. The members of the Obama administration may not be attending a birthday party at John McCain’s ranch in Sedona or shopping for expensive Ferragamo shoes in New York as a great American city is destroyed, but their decidedly lackadaisical response to what job losses are doing to multiple great American cities raises the question: will unemployment be Barack Obama’s Katrina?