Speaking of scumbags: Bank of America, which last fall announced plans to lay off 30,000 workers, is about to go on a hiring spree—overseas. America’s second-largest bank is relocating its business-support operations to the Philippines, according to a high-ranking Filipino government official recently quoted in the Filipino press. The move, which includes a portion of …
Archives for May 2012
Edwards Acquitted
Here’s the report: Johnny Reid Edwards, a honey-voiced North Carolina lawyer who parlayed his boyish good looks and inspiring personal history as the son of a mill-worker into a meteoric political rise, was acquitted of one count Thursday in a corruption case, as the judge declared a mistrial on five other charges on which the …
The American Taliban Is Such an Unfair Term
Stay classy, wingnuts: Jay Townsend, a campaign spokesman for Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth (NY-19), weighed in on a local Facebook discussion with a violent comment about Democratic women in Congress, and his suggestion is now earning the congresswoman condemnation from one of her Democratic challengers. The Facebook page, called NY19 U.S. House of Representatives Discussion …
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Bombs Away Obama
TNC, reacting to the NY Times article the other day about Obama’s wild escalation of drone strikes: Has there ever been a point since America’s inception when someone, somewhere, wasn’t plotting our downfall? I have great difficulty perceiving a time when this won’t be true. And so drone strategy comes to self-replicate. We bomb your …
First They Came For My Big Gulp, And I Said Nothing
If you’re wondering what kind of big issues and Americans Elect candidate would tackle, here you go: New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat …
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Beyond Thunder DOMA
And the inevitable Supreme Court case on the federal Defense Of Marriage Act got one step closer today as a three-judge panel on the First Circuit just declared the law unconstitutional. A three judge panel of The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit just handed down a decision declaring the anti-gay Defense …
Breitbartico Whines About “Vetting”
Politico’s lead story right now: To GOP, blatant bias in vetting On the front page of its Sunday edition, the New York Times gave a big spread to Ann Romney spending lots of time and tons of money on an exotic genre of horse-riding. The clear implication: The Romneys are silly rich, move in rarefied …