- A Month into the Job, Mayor Lee Foresees Extreme Financial Pain – The Bay Citizen
- The financial plight of the city of San Francisco is so dire, says new Mayor Edwin M. Lee, that if around $300 million to $400 million in cuts to employee pension and health care costs are not achieved, the city could face bankruptcy as soon as five years from now.
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- Boehner’s Spending Cuts Would Kill 1 Million Jobs | TPMDC
- At a press conference yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters that if some federal jobs were lost as a result of his proposed spending cuts, "so be it."
How many jobs are we talking about? According to federal budget expert Scott Lilly at the Center for American Progress, Boehner's proposed spending cuts could kill almost 1 million jobs.
- Women’s Health Advocates Unfazed By GOP’s War On Planned Parenthood | TPMDC
- First, there's Pence's bill, which targets all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, under any circumstances. Then there's the GOP budget plan, which would take away government funding for family planning from all clinics, not just those managed by Planned Parenthood…
[The remainder of the article gets weird for me-- the journalist seems to be implying that Title X funding for family planning services is good, but Planned Parenthood is bad, or that advocates of family planning should not care about the attack on PP, or that it is somehow bad strategy to care about both PP and Title X? Remember the big picture, please, mister journalist! -L]
- ‘Curveball’: I Lied About Iraq WMD To Help Topple Saddam | TPMMuckraker
- Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball" by German and American intelligence officials, now admits he made up tales of mobile biological weapons trucks and clandestine weapons factories in Iraq, information that was used by the Bush White House to press the case for war. He also says he'd do it again…
In his crucial speech to the U.N. in the run-up to the war in 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell quoted intelligence information supplied by Janabi as justification for the Bush administration's case against Iraq. Years later, reports would show that many within the CIA were expressing serious doubts about Curveball's credibility at the time.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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