OpEd News – by Dave Johnson

You will be hearing a lot about the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. TPP’s negotiations are being held in secret with details kept secret even from our Congress. But giant corporations are in the loop.

TPP is a “trade” agreement between several Pacific-rim countries that is actually about much more than just trade. It will be sold as a trade agreement (because everyone knows that “trade” is good) but much of it appears to be (from what we know) a corporate end-run around things We the People want to do to reign in the giant corporations — like Wall Street regulation, environmental regulation and corporate taxation.   Continue reading “Upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership Looks Like Corporate Takeover”

AOL – by Claire Gordon

If you’re a teacher, and want to keep your job, don’t mock your students on Facebook. If your boss is a Jewish community leader, and you want to keep your job, don’t post photos on Facebook of yourself covered in swastikas. And if you’re anyone who wants to keep your job, don’t go on Facebook and insult a police officer.   Continue reading “Chili’s Waitress Fired Over Facebook Post Insulting ‘Stupid Cops’”

The Weekly Standard – by DANIEL HALPER

California congressman Devin Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative’s Cloak Room, an exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with one another. Nunes made the claim on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.   Continue reading “Congressman: Justice Dept. Wiretapped the House of Representative’s Cloak Room”

I know this story has already been reported, but this one has photos we haven’t seen before.

Mr. Conservative – by Libertarian Girl

A Bakersfield father of four died this week after struggling with nearly nine police officers outside of a medical facility. Witnesses say that the thirty-three year old pled for his life.   Continue reading “Father Beaten To Death By 9 Sheriffs, Bystanders Captured On Camera”

Ulsterman Report

Please read the following brief assessment below of just how clear the Obama White House has revealed either its complete complicity in at least one of the many quite serious administrative scandals that are now ongoing, OR, Barack Obama is the most detached and incompetent president to have ever been elected to the office of president, and should resign on such incompetence immediately as he is not mentally fit to be President of the United States…   Continue reading “Obama White House Just Caught In HUGE Lie/Contradiction – See Proof Here.”

LA Times – by Richard Winton

Six Kern County sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant, who last week were involved in a violent confrontation with a man who was struck numerous times with batons before he died, have returned to their regular jobs, officials said Tuesday.

David Sal Silva, 33, a father of four, was pronounced dead  Wednesday less than an hour after eyewitnesses reported seeing several deputies repeatedly strike the man in the head with batons as he lay on the pavement.   Continue reading “Kern County deputies involved in fatal beating are back at work”

Alt Market – by Brandon Smith

The debate over what actions actually constitute “terrorism,” I believe, will become one of the defining ideological battles of our era. Terrorism is not a word often used by common people to describe aberrant behaviors or dastardly deeds; however, it is used by governments around the world to label and marginalize political enemies. That is to say, it is the government that normally decides who is a “terrorist” and who is a mere “criminal,” the assertion being that one is clearly far worse than the other.   Continue reading “Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!”

Hillary_Clinton_Watergate_Fired_From_StaffDigital Journal – by Johnny Simpson, April 2, 2008

The former general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary during the Watergate investigation, says her history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Fired From Watergate Committee for Fraud, Ethics Violations”

Godfather Politics – by Philip Hodges

Public figures are more honest when they think no one is watching or listening.

The New Jersey legislature archives their sessions and uploads them to their website for all to listen to. What some of these legislators didn’t realize was that the mic was still on and could pick up what they were saying.   Continue reading ““Hot Mic” Picks Up Dem Lawmakers: “Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate””

Live Wire – by TOM KLUDT

Jon Stewart on Monday skewered the Internal Revenue Service over revelations that the agency improperly targeted conservative organizations, arguing that the emerging scandal will embolden right-wing conspiracy theorists.

Stewart blasted senior IRS official Lois Lerner, who seemed to suggest on a conference call last week that the agency’s apology was adequate.   Continue reading “Jon Stewart: IRS Scandal Gives Credibility To ‘Tin Foil-Behatted’ Right-Wing”