This is wrong

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday October 09, 2012 · 7:48 AM PDT

2012/10/09 · 07:48

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) requires companies to provide 60-days advance notice of pending mass lay offs or plant closures. Due to the sequester, the Obama administration has been put in the difficult position of having federal contractors issuing these notices November 2, four days before the election.

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday June 13, 2011 · 4:00 AM PDT

2011/06/13 · 04:00

I came across this in the Chicago Tribune today. Apparently, due to new EPA regulations on power generation, we can expect our electrical bills to go up between 40% and 60% in the next three years. Yikes.

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday April 07, 2010 · 1:33 PM PDT

2010/04/07 · 13:33

That's correct folks. Here's the story from WaPo:

A Muslim cleric tied to the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner has become the first U.S. citizen added to a list of suspected terrorists the CIA is authorized to kill, a U.S. official said Tuesday.

Anwar al-Aulaqi, who resides in Yemen, was previously placed on a target list maintained by the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command and has survived at least one strike carried out by Yemeni forces with U.S. assistance against a gathering of suspected al-Qaeda operatives.

Because he is a U.S. citizen, adding Aulaqi to the CIA list required special approval from the White House, officials said. The move means that Aulaqi would be considered a legitimate target not only for a military strike carried out by U.S. and Yemeni forces, but also for lethal CIA operations.

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday February 01, 2010 · 11:28 AM PST

2010/02/01 · 11:28

News from The Hill on the Obama administration and lobbyists.

A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama’s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday’s State of the Union.

The Treasury Department on Thursday morning invited selected individuals to "a series of conference calls with senior Obama administration officials to discuss key aspects of the State of the Union address."

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday January 21, 2010 · 11:26 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 11:26

This just in from Roll Call:

K Street’s top 25 firms cashed in on the aggressive legislative agenda unleashed by the new president and bigger Democratic majorities in Congress in 2009 to post double-digit growth of about 10 percent over the previous year.

And there's more...

With several big-ticket legislative items moving through Congress, in particular financial services regulatory reform, lobbyists said they expect more of the same this year.

Make of it what you will.

The terror trials will be show trials

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday November 17, 2009 · 7:27 AM PST

2009/11/17 · 07:27

That's not to say that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York will do anything inethical or improper. It's just that by looking at the Obama Administration's own words, the outcome has been politically determined and regardless of any adverse developments in the trials, Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and his co-conspirators will never go free.

Can any of you say, with seriousness, that were there to be an acquittal in U.S. Federal Court, that the Obama administration would set these men free? The idea of an acquittal is not far-fetched, or based on contempt for New Yorkers or the criminal justice system. It's based on the fact that confessions obtained without Miranda warnings, or by coercion, or evidence seized and searches conducted beyond the scope of the Fourth Amendment are inadmissible as evidence.

Now I'm sure that the Justice Department is confident that they have admissible evidence sufficient to go forward, but more than a few prosecutors have had evidence that they believed was constitutionally obtained get tossed. It's the basis of many if not most of government appeals in criminal cases.

mjgreen

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 9:10 AM PDT

2009/04/01 · 09:10

In the recent oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Deputy Solicitor General, Malcolm Stewart, argued that the Federal gov't has the power to ban books that advocate for a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of general elections if that book was paid for by corporate or union funds.

So despite the Constitution specifically protecting political speech, we have the deputy solicitor general of the Obama Administration claiming the power to ban books containing political speech (movies too).

So much for Hope and Change

RSS

This is wrong

Rising Energy Costs; or How to Kill a Nascent Recovery

Obama Administration places U.S. citizen on CIA assasination list

Obama, Congressional Dems up to their necks in the "outsized influence of lobbyists"

Lobbying firms post major profits in 2009

The terror trials will be show trials

Yes, folks, the Obama administration is arguing it has the power to ban books