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Wednesday?s Headlines

By Phil

AIG

     
• Obama?s stimulus bill protects the AIG bonuses:

The ?American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,? provides at Section 111(b)(3)(D)(iii):

`SEC. 111. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

[. . .]

`(iii) The prohibition required under clause (i) shall not be construed to prohibit any bonus payment required to be paid pursuant to a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009, as such valid employment contracts are determined by the Secretary or the designee of the Secretary.

• AIG Bombshells: $1.2B in Bonuses, Over $100B Paid to Goldman, Other Banks
• AIG bailout the worst of both worlds
• Remember, the GOP got savaged for voting against the bailout
• Citigroup Inc., one of the companies we?ve been forced to bail out, is losing its chief economist, the guy who should have seen this coming, to the Obama Administration



• Geithner: AIG must pay back bonus money
• Hey, guess who else has an executive retention bonus plan?

Credit

• FDIC Tells Bank To Quit Being So Careful Over Lack Of Bad Loans

Federal Budget

• Summary of Conference Call - Congressmen McCarthy, Jordan, and Kirk
• Obama?s Bloated Budget in Pictures
  • It doubles national debt, raises your taxes and expands government:
  • Obama FY2010 Budget    

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Census

• ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census
  • The U.S. Census Bureau is working with several national organizations to help recruit 1.4 million workers to produce the country’s 2010 census, including one with a history of voter fraud charges: ACORN.

Obama Administration

• Some Dems want brake in Obama plans
• CHANGE: Obama Considering Expanding War
• America?s Air Force: No One Comes Close

Commerce

     
• Commerce pick tied to China cash

Bankruptcy

• Ruling: Calif. City Can Void Union Contracts in Bankruptcy

Tenth Amendment

• New Hampshire’s 10th Amendment Rally: ‘Armed but Peaceful’
• The Liberty Amendment

Second Amendment

• Armed citizens as first responders

Party Politics

     
• SoCons, Paultards, NeoCons, RINOS? TOSS ?EM ALL OUT? or Maybe Not
• Princeton Professor: Despite Rhetoric Republicans Are Party of Bigger Government

State Politics

• Missouri police given chilling instructions
• Maryland Has an Independent Legislator
• KBH LEADS PERRY; STRICKLAND LOOKS STRONG; PENN GOP GUV RACE GETS CROWDED; DEL IS MIKE’S CASTLE.

Judiciary

• Obama appoints first appellate court justice
• Berkeley schools enrollment policy, court says
• First Circuit Upholds Ban on Petitioning for Candidates on Interior Post Office Sidewalks

Conservatism

• What ‘conservatives’ like on Net

Iraq

• Video: The most relentlessly upbeat Iraq news segment you?ll ever see

Israel

• The names of prisoners Israel won’t free

Tech

• IBM In Talks To Buy Sun Microsystems

Finance

• The Fed has been “printing money.” So what?
• Debt isn’t so bad after all
• Saver?s Credit: Retirement Savings Contribution Tax Credit
• How To Get Job Working The 2010 U.S. Census
• The Incredible Web 2.0 : Social Saving Toolkit

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).