President-elect Barack Obama's administration needs to monitor war spending much more closely than the current White House has, according to a new study that criticized President Bush's approach to funding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars - a bill that is projected to approach nearly $1 trillion next year. ...more

December 26, 2008

$50 billion to $60 billion Original Bush administration estimate of the cost of the Iraq war ...more

December 26, 2008

President George W. Bush took the rare step today of revoking a pardon he had granted only a day before, after learning of political contributions to Republicans by the man's father and other information. ...more

December 24, 2008

Taken together, two reports from the Department of Labor suggested that immigrants were needed to fill the coming worker shortage. The Report on the American Workforce predicted that by 2008 there would be 155 million workers in the United States. The other, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, projected there would be 161 million jobs. ...more

December 20, 2008

WASHINGTON - Citing danger to the national economy, the Bush administration came to the rescue of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in emergency loans in exchange for concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers. ...more

December 19, 2008

With former Alaska senator Ted Stevens out of office and fighting to stay out of prison, Congress has the opportunity to end an outrageous expenditure that wastes tax dollars while defiling the largest rainforest in North America. ...more

December 13, 2008

Randy Ludacer wrote an excellent piece on the price of war. I would like to add a few comments. A few months back a writer wrote that we should Google 9-11 and remember why we are at war and who is protecting us. I did just that. Until I started this research, I was just like most Americans, thinking it was terrorists. I no longer believe the official story. There are reams of information that prove a cover-up on the part of the Bush administration. I researched both sides, the conspiracy side and the debunking the side. Common sense and facts won out and I am convinced that there is a cover-up. Before you label me a liberal Bush basher, I am a conservative; I supported Bush in both elections. ...more

December 9, 2008

We are a different country now. When millions of Americans went to the polls Nov. 4, we didn't know whether a black man could be elected president of the United States. Pundits and pollsters said Barack Obama was almost certain to win, but history and experience told us we couldn't be sure until it really happened. ...more

December 7, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs, turning to a former Army chief of staff once vilified by the Bush administration for questioning its Iraq war strategy shortly before the U.S. invasion. ...more

December 7, 2008

As evidence mounts that last week's attacks in Mumbai may have originated on Pakistani soil, U.S. officials' aggressive campaign to strike at militants in Pakistan may complicate their efforts to prevent an Indian military response, which could lead to all-out war between the nuclear-armed enemies. ...more

November 30, 2008