The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to add Rep. Ron Paul’s broadly supported proposal to audit the Federal Reserve to a larger banking reform package.
Archives: November 2009
Audit the Fed moves forward in House
Posted: November 19, 2009 10:55 pm
Updated: November 19, 2009 11:14 pm
Poor canal maintenance led to Katrina flooding
Posted: November 19, 2009 1:53 am
The flooding which nearly wiped the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish, La., off the map after Hurricane Katrina was caused by the Army Corps of Engineers failing to maintain a navigation channel through the city, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Suicide epidemic hits Chicago bureaucrats
Posted: November 17, 2009 2:48 pm
Chicago, long one of the most corrupt cities in America, has seen three of its government bureaucrats commit suicide in recent memory, the latest being the president of its school board.
Gay newspaper network shut down
Posted: November 17, 2009 1:29 am
On Monday, the Washington Blade and several other gay newspapers were shut down after the Small Business Administration, which had put them in receivership, was unable to sell them.
Do newspapers need government bailouts?
Posted: November 12, 2009 4:43 pm
New Hampshire’s guarantee of a $250,000 line of credit for a local newspaper freshly emerged from bankruptcy is raising fresh questions about whether media outlets which receive government assistance can remain independent, and whether government should offer such assistance at all.
Should parents be licensed to have children?
Posted: November 10, 2009 7:01 pm
Raising a child is probably the most important thing a person will ever do in life. Yet we constantly hear stories of child abuse and neglect.
Prosecutors: We can frame you with impunity
Posted: November 5, 2009 1:39 am
Updated: November 5, 2009 2:22 am
Prosecutors trying to put you in prison for a crime you didn’t commit can fabricate evidence, coerce witnesses into lying on the stand, and enjoy absolute immunity. They cannot go to prison. They cannot even be sued. They aren’t even likely to get so much as a reprimand from the bar association or from their bosses, even after publicly admitting to framing you.
