Congressional Group Comes to CAIR’s Defense

Congressional Group Comes to CAIR’s Defense

2009 October 30

tags: CAIR, Democracy Now!, Islam, News, Politics
by Claude Cartaginese

Earlier this week, NewsRealblog reported that four Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina (the others being Trent Franks of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia and John Shadegg of Arizona), were asking Congressional Sergeant-at-Arms Wilson Livingood to investigate [...]

Obama: We Could be a Muslim Nation

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Funds for D.C. wildfires rebuked, then restored

Congressional lawmakers Wednesday rebuked the Forest Service for spending stimulus forest firefighting money on D.C. green-jobs programs, but gave the city the money anyway.
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Rep. LaTourette Mocks Democrats for “Big Lie” About GOP Opposition to Health Care

This is great.

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Lending Giant GMAC Seeks Billions More in U.S. Aid

Where, when does it end?
GMAC, the troubled consumer finance company, is seeking billions of dollars in additional federal aid, a move that would be its third taxpayer bailout and could give the government a majority stake in the company, according to people briefed on the situation.
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Afghans generally upbeat, survey finds

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 (UPI) — A survey of the national sentiment of citizens across all 34 provinces in Afghanistan finds most feel their situation and the country are improving.
The Asia Foundation, a U.S-based think tank with offices in Kabul, surveyed more than 6,000 Afghan adults chosen by a random sample from June 17 to [...]

Working Families ’scam’ to boost pals

The labor-backed Working Families Party has engaged in “an audacious scheme to violate the law” to help the party’s favored political candidates get elected, a sweeping new lawsuit charges.
The first-of-its-kind suit says the WFP created a political outfit, Data and Field Services, that it is using to “circumvent state election and local campaign finance laws.”
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Legal aid program to recover stone-wall funds

Corruption from top to bottom:
The government’s legal aid program for the poor has agreed to recover taxpayer money that it spent inappropriately on a decorative Italian-stone wall, but lawmakers in Congress are now pressing for an investigation into new whistle blower concerns about the program.
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Bank of America Implicated in a Fourth Ponzi Scheme

Newswise — A Complaint filed October 22, 2009 in Federal District Court in Tampa, Florida alleges that Bank of America was at the center of yet another Ponzi scheme. The operator of this scheme, 27 year-old Beau Diamond, defrauded hundreds of investors from Florida and around the country of at least $37 million. He claimed [...]

Medical device firms critical of proposed tax

An estimated $40 billion tax on the medical device industry, proposed in the health system reform bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee Oct. 13, would result in a doubling of the tax burden already faced by these companies and would likely contribute to a growth in overall health costs. That’s according to a new [...]