Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 21, 2009, 4:53 pm
posted by Bill: I highly recommend Bob Herbert's column today as he tours through downtown Detroit, or what's left of it, with an economist from the Motor City. It's time we all started th...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 21, 2009, 9:11 am
by Deb Cupples | Yesterday, the Financial Times reported: "Germany’s new finance minister has echoed Chinese warnings about the growing threat of fresh global asset price bubbles, fueled by low US i...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 18, 2009, 7:10 am
posted by Bill: Hey, maybe I'm being too tough about the need for a jobs program, incentives, and more. Maybe people out of work just aren't looking hard enough. According to McClatchy, Mickey...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 15, 2009, 8:33 am
by Bill Kavanagh: Healthcare reform, climate change legislation, education reform, even changes in war strategy will all fall short of creating a lasting political program if Americans don’t have jo...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 13, 2009, 11:03 pm
by Deb Cupples | I came across two science-related pieces recently. The first, from Live Science, begins: "The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at lev...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 13, 2009, 10:29 pm
It was June 2007 that the U.S. House passed a resolution (373-26 votes) to investigate Rep. William Jefferson (DLA), who was indicted on corruption charges. Today, the New Orleans Times-Picayune repor...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 11, 2009, 10:10 am
by Deb Cupples | On Veterans Day, I cannot help thinking of the thousands of Americans who have returned home from foreign soil suffering injuries. When I think of wounded veterans, I cannot help thin...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 9, 2009, 11:05 pm
by Deb Cupples | Apparently, most Americans want the freedom to choose to pay less for health insurance through a publicoption (as opposed to being forced to pay skyrocketing premiums to private insur...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 9, 2009, 11:03 pm
by Deb Cupples | In a special report on Afghanistan, CBS News indicated that President Obama is planning to send about 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, which would mean that about 100,000 troops wou...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 8, 2009, 1:49 am
posted by Bill: Finally, the historic vote came as healthcare reform passed in the House last night. Rep. Jim McGovern lauded Speaker Pelosi for "threading the needle" in pulling through a 220-215 mar...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 7, 2009, 12:07 pm
by Deb Cupples | I'm just starting to catch up. Apparently, Rep. Bart Stupak proposed an amendment to the health care reform bill that would essentially prevent many insurance companies from cover...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 6, 2009, 1:38 pm
by Deb Cupples | The New York Times reports that our nation's unemployment rate has risen to 10.2% -- our highest unemployment rate in 26 years. And here some folks are talking about how well our ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 6, 2009, 1:19 pm
posted by Chris | So many times we have heard the expression “home is where the heart is.” Lately, television ads have been touting that your home is where some money is. As retirees start to face...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 4, 2009, 11:14 pm
by Deb Cupples | Bloomberg tells us that that CIT Group has filed for bankruptcy protection, "blaming losses on subprime mortgages and tightening credit markets." We taxpayers will lose about $2.3 bil...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 2, 2009, 9:23 pm
by Deb Cupples | Apparenlty, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Wednesday, which includes a seemingly bizarre argument by prosecutors. The Washington Post reports: "THERE IS NO Freestanding Co...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Nov 1, 2009, 9:41 am
by Deb Cupples | Last Sunday, I did a good-news roundup to balance out the negativity that accompanies blogging about corruption and politics in general. I certainly intended to do these roundups more...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 31, 2009, 10:01 am
Apparently, an Ohio psychologist is suing Louisiana's State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, trying to force the Board to investigate a Louisiana psychologist (who was also an Army officer), b...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 30, 2009, 12:27 pm
by Deb Cupples | Bloomberg reports: "In Washington and on Main Street, politicians and voters are railing against Wall Street’s multi- million-dollar pay packages. In the financial world, most execu...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 30, 2009, 12:14 pm
by Deb Cupples | From the Department of the Not Surprising, the Washington Post reports: "House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides i...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 27, 2009, 9:59 am
by Deb Cupples | Roll Call reports that, during an interview with a right-wing radio host Alex Jones last month, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) referred to a former adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben B...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 27, 2009, 8:48 am
posted by Chris | Recently, a client brought to my attention an organization called saveandinvest.org which is sponsored by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. Its website is www.saveandinvest.or...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 25, 2009, 10:03 am
by Deb Cupples | Balance is important. Blogging about politics can make us forget that good news exists in the world and that there are good people out there helping create it. I figured it would be n...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 24, 2009, 10:42 am
by Deb Cupples | Tomorrow, at 7 pm EST, CBS's 60 Minutes will run a segment on Medicare fraud -- which does, in fact, cost our Medicare program billions of dollars each year. I saw the teaser (bel...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 24, 2009, 10:19 am
by Deb Cupples | Roughly a year after our nation's financial system began to crash, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has finally launched a probe of mortgage lenders purportedly...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 24, 2009, 9:54 am
by Deb Cupples | Last week, President Obama bluntly called out the insurance industry essentially for price gouging, profiteering, and deceptive advertising. Yesterday, Talking Points Memo stated:"Sen...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 21, 2009, 6:11 pm
posted by Bill: New estimate by CBO brings public option bill in under Blue Dog proposal in budget impact and rates it as net deficit deduction over ten years. See CNN.
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 20, 2009, 6:57 am
by Deb Cupples | The Washington Post reports: "A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 18, 2009, 11:44 am
by Deb Cupples | A few days ago, I blogged about a report by America's Health Insurance Plans (an industry group), which contained potentially misleading, anti-reform conclusions. Even the prestig...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 18, 2009, 11:09 am
by Deb Cupples | I know, you know, we all know that Rupert Murdoch's Fox is all about editorializing, not reporting news. More accurately, the folks tend to selectively report news items so as to ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 17, 2009, 10:47 am
bartleby the scrivener | Following up on my comments on the IG's findings about the first round of AIG bonuses and Deb's piece yesterday, here's a piece at HuffPost on how the bailouts by ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 16, 2009, 12:01 pm
by Deb Cupples | Every dollar that a bank spends on executive pay or devotes to "profits" is one less dollar for that bank to spend on offsetting losses or otherwise making the bank stronger. Period. ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 16, 2009, 10:43 am
posted by Chris | If you have a home mortgage, now may be a good time for you to consider refinancing. If you have an adjustable rate mortgage or an interest rate that is higher than current rates, re...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 16, 2009, 9:00 am
A Louisiana Justice of the Peace recently refused to marry an inter-racial couple. Naturally, calls for his resignation have come forth: "The demands for Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace for Tangi...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 15, 2009, 1:13 pm
Kos: Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the fi...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 15, 2009, 1:03 pm
bartleby the scrivener | There. He said it. I feel a little better now. "It was a failure of oversight by Treasury" that led to the spring's bonus fiasco, watchdog Neil Barofsky told the House Ove...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 15, 2009, 12:19 pm
HuffPost: In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 13, 2009, 12:08 pm
by Deb Cupples | Every dollar that goes toward private-contractor waste, fraud or abuse (or profiteering) is one less dollar to pay for actual health-care goods and services. You can see more than a d...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 13, 2009, 11:30 am
by Deb Cupples | The Washington Post reports: "President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 13, 2009, 11:03 am
by Deb Cupples | When people truly have data on their side, they rarely waste time fudging data. As my co-blogger Bartleby mentioned yesterday, a report released on Sunday questionably indicates that ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 12, 2009, 12:00 pm
by bartleby the scrivener | Ha ha ha! So much for the industry's much-touted "collaboration." When will our Dems ever learn, eh? If you lie down with dogs, you get up with rabies. "[T]he insurance...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 12, 2009, 10:19 am
by Damozel | From the Human Rights Campaign's October 10 banquet: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Oh, that's nice. That's really nice. So it is a ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 12, 2009, 10:10 am
by Damozel | Deb asked yesterday whether Obama's "support" for gay rights will prove to be nothing but more of the president's inspirational rhetoric. Via HuffPost, Bill Maher speaks out for g...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 11, 2009, 10:35 am
by Deb Cupples | When then-President Bush and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were bullying Congress and us taxpayers into freeing up hundreds of billions to bail out huge banks and investment f...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 11, 2009, 9:31 am
by Deb Cupples | I suppose President Obama deserves snaps for giving inspirational speeches: at least, many people have chosen to feel inspired while watching his speeches. Unfortunately, as we've...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 11, 2009, 8:51 am
The Chicago Tribune reports:The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama may have stunned Americans. But in Europe, where the winner is chosen and where people prefer their superpow...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 10, 2009, 10:07 pm
October 5, 2009 Healthcare Reform Debate with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Dr. Betsy McCaughey, Health Policy Expert, Patient Advocate and former Lieutenant Governor of New York (1995-1998) Also!: R...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 10, 2009, 9:45 pm
Recent Buck Naked Politics Postings Progressives Ponder Obama's Nobel Prize Win for Not Being George W. Bush; Others Enjoy Wingnut-Baiting Bonus Grayson and Ron Paul Send Letter to Senate Banking ...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 9, 2009, 11:14 am
by Damozel | Neener neener! Ha ha ha! (as Big Tent Democrat is wont to say, speaking for me only). Many progressives are disturbed by the award. Tas of Comments from Left Field call it ridiculous. . I...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 9, 2009, 10:30 am
by Damozel | Here's yer bipartisanship. Recent Buck Naked Politics Postings Alan Grayson Calls Out Fellow Dems for Obsession with Getting Support of Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for Health Care Plan; Tell...
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Margaret Temple-Smith posted an article on Buck Naked Politics - Oct 9, 2009, 10:22 am
by Damozel | Can I hear you say, "Amen"? From Huff Post: "We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question o...
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