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• Owners Making Agreed Loan Payments Can Lose Their Homes Without Notice

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 686
  The federal Home Affordable Modification Program is supposed to help struggling owners get revised mortgage terms that will make it possible for them to hold onto their personal residences. But only a small fraction of those who apply are being approved by lenders, even when they are making trial revised loan payments ...
  18 hours ago

• ABA Prez Applauds Progress Toward Passing Privilege Protection Law

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 686
  Applauding the introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday that would restrict federal agencies from pressuring organizations and their employees to waive legal protections when they are under investigation, the president of the American Bar Association has called for swift enactment of the the ...
  18 hours ago

• Public Service Commissioner Susan Parker Announces Re-Election Bid

  
  Doc's Political Parlor — Authority: 437
  Democrat Susan Parker makes it official today: she is running for re-election to the Public Service Commission, Place 2 (Word .doc) . Republican Chip Brown has also announced his candidacy for the position.
  23 hours ago

• Who Makes Foreign Policy?

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 593
  by Ron Paul This article was originally published on December 11, 2006 The media, Congress, and the American public all seem to have accepted something that is patently untrue: namely, that foreign policy is the domain of the president and not Congress. This is absolutely not the case and directly contrary to ...
  1 day ago

• Obama Signs Omnibus Spending Bill Including Defunding of Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Programs and Lifting Ban on DC Abortion Funding

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  ACLU Press Release: President Signs Omnibus Bill Including Major Civil Liberties Policy Advances For Washington, D.C.: Bill Lifts 20-Year Ban On DC Abortion Funding, Ends Discriminatory School Voucher Program And Defunds Abstinence-Only Sex Education Programs WASHINGTON – President Obama today...
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• Reporting the Non-Reporters

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  A Nov. 30 OMB memo to agencies, " Improving Compliance in Recovery Act Recipient Reporting ," instructed the federal agencies to "compile a verified and detailed list of recipients who were required to report in the October period but failed to do so." The lists was to be submitted to OMB by Dec. 4. This list and ...
  2 days ago

• Bush ethics counsel endorses lobbyist ban on boards and commissions

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 144
  Richard Painter endorses the Obama administration’s move to ban lobbyists on government boards and commissions in this letter to The Times.
  2 days ago

• This Isn’t Reform

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 138
  After reading the CBO’s letter to Sen. Evan Bayh , there’s no way I can call the Democrats’ legislation health care reform without feeling like I’m being dishonest. Here’s the first part of the letter that jumped out at me: In addition, the proposal would: establish a mandate for most legal residents ...
  2 days ago

• Gitmo Military Trials Will Move to Nation’s Heartland

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 686
  Relying on an unidentified senior administration official, the Chicago Tribune reports that the White House plans to hold in the nations heartland future military commission trials of individuals now being held by the U.S. military as terrorism suspects. The official tells the newspaper that President Barack Obama ...
  2 days ago

• HPV Vaccine No Longer Mandatory for Immigrant Women

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  RH Reality Check: Eliminating HPV Vaccine Mandate For Immigrant Women: A Victory on the Road to Reproductive Justice, by Miriam Yueng (National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum) & Amanda Allen (Reproductive Justice Fellow/Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow): This...
  2 days ago

• Military Abortion Ban Imposes Unconscionable Burdens on American Servicewomen

  
  Reproductive Rights Prof Blog — Authority: 140
  Religion Dispatches: Military Abortion Ban: Female Soldiers Not Protected by Constitution They Defend, by Kathryn Joyce: Unable to get an abortion during a tour of duty in Iraq a soldier is left with no option but to do it herself—a...
  2 days ago

• Federal Judge Axes Broadcom Case Due to Prosecutorial Misconduct

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 686
  Developing: Citing prosecutorial misconduct, a federal judge in Southern California has axed a stock options backdating case against two Broadcom Corp. executives. U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney found that the government leaked grand jury information to the media, improperly contacted attorneys for defense ...
  3 days ago

• Government employees, think twice before accepting that box of Russell Stover candies

  
  Political Activity Law — Authority: 144
  Just in time for the holiday season of giving, the Office of Government Ethics issued this annual memorandum reminding government employees and interested parties about gift and fundraising rules.  Included in the memo is a poem. The holiday season – a time for good cheer! For egg nog, for parties, for friends ...
  3 days ago

• The Legislative Fiscal Office releases a gloomy forecast

  
  Doc's Political Parlor — Authority: 437
  The Legislative Fiscal Office has released its numbers for next fiscal year.  The report foresees flat to decreasing tax revenue, and reduced stimulus funding.  The report also shows how much the stimulus program kept the state afloat. Links to their presentation , exhibits and slideshow . The Department of ...
  3 days ago

• Political clout and the lack thereof

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 472
  It’s a basic tenet of American political systems that there are checks and balances, with each branch of a government unit  operating with powers that are not controlled by other branches. Consider what is about to unfold in the Wisconsin Legislature a particularly vivid lesson in that. Gov. Jim Doyle has called ...
  3 days ago

• DOE into the VC Game

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 573
  For many a post, Ive said the U.S. government needs to get into the Venture Capital game, especially for key advanced sectors critical to the national interest. Well, read this Wall Street Journal piece to get a warm fuzzy that someone, somewhere, is doing something right. The DOE hopes to lend or give out more ...
  4 days ago

• Why George Soros is after IMF gold…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 542
  Federal Reserve manipulating gold prices: Ron Paul ; he said that the FED and executive branch are suppressing the inflation data by manipulating gold http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Federal-Reserve-manipulating-gold-prices-Ron-Paul-23803-3-1.html and you know Soros calling for IMF sale to fund Climate change ...
  5 days ago

• A Runaway Judiciary & Gubernatorial Authority

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 138
  After having lunch with Steve Deace of WHO Radio on Tuesday, he got me thinking runaway judiciaries.  They are, by and large, a barrier to implementing conservative principles legislatively and in executive policy.  Obviously the big elephant in the room in Iowa is the April 3, 2008 ruling by the Iowa Supreme ...
  5 days ago

• James Anderson Mulling Run for AG

  
  Doc's Political Parlor — Authority: 437
  I was pleased to have a conversation with Montgomery attorney James Anderson who tells us that, contrary to any rumors, he is not considering running for the Supreme Court but that he is very much considering running on the Democratic side for Attorney General in 2010. He expects to make a decision by early next ...
  6 days ago

• Trey Glenn Resigning

  
  Doc's Political Parlor — Authority: 437
  It’s official: Trey Glenn has just announced to the Alabama Emergency Management Commission that he is resigning as ADEM Director. He tells the EMC that it is time to write the next chapter in his life, thanks the AEMC for their support and the service they provide, and thanks the professional staff. In his ...
  1 week ago

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