Airports Consider Ditching TSA
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 1st, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Airports Consider Ditching TSA
How Congress Changed Your Life in 2010
Patricia Murphy, Politics Daily
As members of the 111th Congress look back on 2010, they will see anything but a do-nothing session. From banning drop-side cribs, to freezing their own salaries for the second year in a row, to overhauling the food inspection system, to telling airlines not to charge fees for carry-on luggage, the Democratically controlled House and Senate passed bills at a feverish pace in the past year. But several developments stand out for the breadth of their impact. They may not all be popular, as evidenced by the November “shellacking” that Democrats took in the midterm elections, but the…
The Financial Crisis Made Big Banks Bigger
Daniel Indiviglio, The Atlantic
Daniel Indiviglio – Daniel Indiviglio is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about credit markets, regulation, monetary & fiscal policy, taxes, banking, trade, emerging markets and technology. Prior to joining The Atlantic, he wrote for Forbes. He also worked as an investment banker and a consultant. Dec 30 2010, 10:36 AM ET Comment Banks are finally beginning to lend, the big ones that is. Commercial and industrial lending is up this quarter 0.2% from the third quarter, according to Moody's Analytics. That might not sound like much, but…
The WikiLeaks War on America
Jonathan Foreman, Commentary
The indefinable international organization known as WikiLeaks was relatively unknown between its setting up in 2006 and the April 2010 premiere it staged at the National Press Club in Washington of the "Collateral Murder" video"”a selection of stolen and decrypted gun-camera footage that purportedly shows the unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists by the crew of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. Skillfully edited and promoted, and widely accepted by the mainstream media as proof of a U.S. war crime, the video won WikiLeaks fame and…
Bipartisanship is Doomed in the Next Congress
Ed Kilgore, New Republic
In the wake of the most productive lame-duck congressional session in years"”the crux of which was a grand bargain between Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, who until recently seemed as if they could cooperate on absolutely nothing"”devotees of bipartisanship have renewed their flagging hopes. These seem to include the president himself, who commented: "If there's any lesson to draw from these past few weeks, it's that we're not doomedto endlessgridlock." But au contraire: There is every indication that the next two years…
