Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Technorati Politics Channel » WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has decided on Eric Holder, a former senior official in the Clinton administration, to be attorney general, Newsweek said on Tuesday. Full story

Technorati Politics Channel » Democratic leaders in Congress today threw their weight behind a proposal to use $24 billion in government funds to help struggling borrowers, a move opposed by the Bush administration. Full story

Technorati Politics Channel » The case for a bailout of U.S. automakers came under sharp scrutiny on Tuesday at a congressional hearing that portrayed the Big Three as both short-sighted in their business strategies and central to the economy. Full story

TreeHugger » Image credit:Volksbloggin, VW Rabbit trapped in parking garage When money is tight, people will naturally tend to:- 1.) Purchase less "stuff"; 2.) Postpone repairs; 3.) Prepare meals from scratch; 4.) Play more music (TeeVee ads too depressing); and 5.) Poach . W-a-i-t a m-i-n-u-t-e. Poaching? Yes, poaching. It happened a lot ... Full story

TreeHugger » Image source: Spink Shreves Galleries Inc. Bill Gross, Wall Street money manager, recently auctioned off another portion of his British Empire Stamp collection and donated all proceeds to the Millennium Villages Project. Stamps range in estimated value from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars and include rare stamps such as the Indigo Blue ... Full story

TreeHugger » Picture: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the Perito Moreno glacier. Dyn via Critica Newspaper. As usually happens in Argentina, authorities seem to have favored big corporations over environmental common sense. Last Friday, Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner vetoed a law that protected the country's glaciers and ... Full story

Daily Kos » A perfect illustration of  just how weak Harry Reid is. Full story

Daily Kos » Looks like Mark Begich will be setting up a new office in DC after all.....MSNBC is reporting the race in Alaska has been called for Mark Begich. WASHINGTON - Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich after the last large batch of votes was counted Tuesday. The longest-serving Republican in the ... Full story

Daily Kos » Bill Clinton was the first major Democratic figure to step into the Georgia runoff, but he won't be the last. His Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, has joined the fray on behalf of Orange to Blue Democrat Jim Martin: Jim Martin, the Democratic candidate in the contentious Georgia Senate runoff, is getting a ... Full story

msnbc.com: The White House » What people should find hopeful is that the sure-footedness, the very deliberate nature that the president-elect exemplified during ... Full story