Bloggers broke foreclosure-gate while MSM snoozed

This precisely echoes how it was bloggers who broke the subprime story, while the mainstream media initially mocked them while doing nothing. Then finally managed to stumble across the story after bloggers did the hard work for them.

WaPo profiles the bloggers at 4closeurefraud.org whose determination and research ignited foreclosure-gate. But, as it too [...]

Google pays 2.4% in taxes via loopholes

Gimme a “Double Irish” and a “Dutch Sandwich” please, says Google and other tech companies. These tax ploys allow them to pay tiny amounts of tax as they shuttle profits around the world, sometimes through companies that have no employees. All this is quite legal, utterly unfair, and shows how our taxes need tightening. [...]

Michael Gerson on Obama the snob

Before you dismiss what he’s saying too quickly, be aware this is precisely what leftie journalist Joe Bageant says too. Democrats too often tend to be elitist and contemptuous of those living in the country or who disagree with them.

In April 2008, Obama described small-town voters to wealthy donors in San Francisco: “It’s not [...]

Changing education paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.

Truly amazing, fun to watch, filled with ideas how to change education.

Porsche plans a hybrid in every model line

Porsche 918 Spyder EV

Plus, they will have an electric sports car in a few years, the Spyder 918

Dark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can’t be traced to donors

The money is coming from labor unions too, it’s not just on the Republican side.

In certainly related news, SocGen’s Albert Edwards: The U.S. public is about to revolt “This would happen in any nation where a vision of prosperity has been shown to be a Ponzi sham, engineered by the authorities to help [...]

Obama backstabs DADT again. Gay marriage too.

And apparently he’s a-ok with torture too, with policies no different from Bush and Ashcroft.

For civil libertarians, President Obama now ranks with one of the worst presidents in our history and virtually indistinguishable in these cases from his predecessor. For all of those Democrats in Congress begging for support, I will simply add [...]

Legal marijuana is a states rights issue

Decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana is a growing trend in many states and is a direct challenge to the authority of the federal government. Not that’s there’s much the feds can do about it. But believe they are worried, especially if the trend continues and states begin to challenge the federal government on other issues.

It’s [...]

Forclosure and mortgage fraud news

BofA denial over foreclosure-gate

Pimco, NY Fed wants to force BofA to repurchase garbage mortgages. Pimco manages hundreds of billions in bonds and is a very big dog indeed

Chicago sheriff says no to enforcing foreclosures. This is the same sheriff who a while back refused to evict renters who were in homes that [...]

Cancer ‘is purely man-made’ say scientists

This after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies