The New Curevents

WASHINGTON — A long-running war between Democrats and Republicans over Bush-era tax cuts doomed the debt supercommittee's chances of reaching a deal. Efforts to overhaul the tax code may await the same fate as both parties gear up to make taxes a central issue in 2012 elections.

Republicans insisted during the supercommittee negotiations that curbing tax breaks to raise ...

They now have the video tech for one person to film stuff like this. ...

By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
10 November 11

ederal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time. He showed that again yesterday when he shat all over the SEC's latest dirty settlement with serial fraud offender Citigroup, refusing to let the captured regulatory agency ...

Bachmann Would Eliminate Tax Credit That Kept Three Million Children Out Of Poverty Last Year

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...redit-poverty/



Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who is campaigning for the 2012 GOP presidential nod, has already made it quite clear that she intends to raise taxes on the poorest Americans ...

Picking The Wrong Fight: Republicans On Losing Side On Iraq War, Gallup Data Shows



http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...data-shows.php

A few weeks ago, President Obama announced that US forces would be leaving Iraq in accordance with the timeline that former President George W. Bush and ...

Analysis: 12 Corporations Pay Effective Tax Rate of Negative 1.5%on $171 Billion in Profits; Reap $62.4 Billion in Tax Subsidies



Exxon Mobil, Boeing, Verizon, Others Illustrate Why Revenue-Raising Reform is Needed

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56809745/1...ion-in-Profits

From Citizens ...

The President Surrenders
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 31, 2011












http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/op...R_AP_LO_MST_FB

A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling is in the works. If it goes through, many ...

There are few things more sickening -- or revealing -- to behold than a D.C. sex scandal. Huge numbers of people prance around flamboyantly condemning behavior in which they themselves routinely engage. Media stars contrive all sorts of high-minded justifications for luxuriating in every last dirty detail, when nothing is more obvious than that their only real interest is vicarious titillation. ...

High Gas Prices Mean Record Profits for Big Oil

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/high-...ry?id=13447922



An Exxon gas station near the Watergate complex in Washington shows gas prices at $5 per gallon in this April 20, 2011 photo.


While many Americans are seething at gas prices, which have hit $5 per ...

'Birther' claims force GOP leaders to take a stand
45 percent of adult Republicans said they believe Obama was born in another country

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42723024/



WASHINGTON — It's the conspiracy theory that won't go away. And it's forcing Republican officials and presidential contenders to pick sides: Do they think Barack Obama was born ...

Commercial spaceflight company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) this week unveiled plans for the Falcon Heavy, which SpaceX said will be the world's largest rocket.
The Falcon Heavy will be capable of carrying over 117,000 pounds to orbit, the equivalent of an entire commercial airplane full of passengers, crew, luggage, and fuel.
According to SpaceX, its new rocket will have ...