House Committee Passes Bill Requiring Black Boxes in Cars
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 28th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
House Committee Passes Bill Requiring Black Boxes in Cars
Kilpatrick’s Lies Land Him in the Big House
Big Government? Bring It On
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
May 27 (Bloomberg) — Big government? Bring it on, to borrow the words of our previous commander-in-chief.Those looking for bipartisan consensus in a fractured Capitol need look no further than officials of both parties pounding on the federal government's doors to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Is It Time To Nationalize the Oil Industry?
Joe Conason, Salon
Nearly every day brings fresh evidence of the malfeasance, corruption and recklessness that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, provoking widespread rage at BP and by implication the rest of the oil industry. Public anger at the Obama administration festers, too, as citizens recognize the pitiful impotence of the federal government in these circumstances. But are they furious enough to consider a radical response? If voters are sick of corporate misconduct and government paralysis, after all, there is an alternative to both: nationalization — or at least public…
