According to Steve Kaplan: The White House and Congress appear to have reached an agreement on a bailout plan that restricts executive pay at companies that participate in the bailout. The plan limits CEO compensation that encourages “unnecessary and excessive” risk-taking, creates a tax disadvantage for CEOs who are paid more than $500,000, prohibits severance …
This is truly amazing. Check it out! Staunch conservative Pat Buchanan had nothing but love for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic national convention given before 85,000 people in Denver’s Mile High Stadium. Thanks to Liza Sabater on culturekitchen for sharing that one! And if you missed Obama’s speech – or want to …
Hey, peeved hippie! Stop your hatin’ and learn to love the (McCain) bomb! Aww, just look at you. You seem a little upset. A mite peeved, even. Heck on a hot pancake, I’d even go so far as to say you were downright angry, given how I can see the ripples of general upsettedness and …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.democracynow.org September 1, 2008 Contact:Denis Moynihan 917-549-5000Mike Burke 646-552-5107, mike@democracynow.org ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ Goodman was …
It’s done. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. The emotional impact snuck up on me like a stealth bomb. Maybe because of all the drama with Hillary and Ted Kennedy. Probably because I never thought it would really happen. I came home during the delegate roll call vote and it hit me what …
The powerful speech by Dennis Kucinich at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t included on much of the media we saw and it should have been. Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. …