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  • The Wall Street Journal Survey of CEO Compensation ( Most CEOs give to democrats )

    05/10/2011 7:21:19 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 14 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 8th | Hay Group
    The Wall Street Journal CEO Compensation Study was conducted by Hay Group, a management-consulting firm. The study analyzes CEO pay from the biggest 350 U.S. public companies by revenue that filed their definitive proxy statements between May 1, 2010, and April 30, 2011. Survey Methodology & Terms Definitions Footnotes How to Use This Chart: Click on a column heading to sort by that category. For an individual executive's full compensation details, as well as a link to the proxy statement, click the relevant row. All figures in thousands
  • Breaking: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski wins re-election to Senate as write-in candidate

    11/17/2010 12:15:12 PM PST · by TonyInOhio · 219 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/17/10 | Unattributed
    Breaking: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski wins re-election to Senate as write-in candidate
  • Tidal Wave Set to Hit Shorebank and Its Cronies (Obama and cronies set to....)

    08/05/2010 8:28:53 AM PDT · by yoe · 7 replies
    Word Press ^ | Aug 4, 2010 | By Bridgette
    Big Government publicized the investigative work of Chicago’s 9-12 Project regarding Shorebank Corporation beginning in April, 2010 and again on May 20th. To further expose the corruption surrounding this bank, Glenn Beck has done further investigation and is tying the bank to radicals in government, government officials, specific groups, individuals, and major companies and banks in what he has dubbed “Crime Inc. “ Recent news organizations have reported that Shorebank needed a bailout, but they weren’t available for TARP funds because they didn’t meet the criteria. They have called on their “friends” for additional cash so they might be eligible...
  • ShoreBank probe killed (cronyism wins)

    06/27/2010 7:54:16 AM PDT · by STARWISE · 13 replies
    Sun Times ^ | 6-26-10 | Sun Times Staff
    A congressman's proposal to appoint an inspector general to examine bank-bailout deals for political pressure -- a measure aimed at the politically connected ShoreBank Corp. on Chicago' South Side -- was killed in negotiations on Friday. ShoreBank has received commitments totaling $165 million from major banks such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, and is awaiting approval of another $75 million in federal bailout money. Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Hinsdale) introduced the amendment earlier this week amid reports that the White House had asked other financial institutions to help ShoreBank. The White House denied any interference. In a...
  • Soros’s Oil Spill Payoff

    06/22/2010 8:42:35 AM PDT · by opentalk · 38 replies
    Frontpage Mag ^ | June 22, 2010 | Tait Trussell
    Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market. The company was seeking to lease all its vessels. “If the moratorium on deep-water drilling is not lifted, 33 semi-submersible rigs and/or drill ships affected will simply go to other countries where they will be well received, such as Brazil,” Cliffe F. Laborde and J. Peter Laborde, Jr. wrote in a June 4 letter to their Louisiana Senators. Could this be merely a happy coincidence for...
  • SEIU chief Andy Stern named to debt panel

    02/28/2010 3:32:03 AM PST · by Scanian · 19 replies · 368+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | February 27, 2010 | Rick Moran
    If the president is going to pack the panel with cronies, how "independent" is it going to be? Chris Good of the Atlantic: "Oddly enough, SEIU actually lobbied against the creation of a bipartisan deficit commission when it was being considered in the Senate, concerned with the quasi-binding nature of the suggestions that would have been offered under that commission--the Senate bill required congressional leaders to introduce the commission's proposals, which would be produced as a bill, for up-or-down votes in their respective chambers. Under Obama's commission, Congress isn't bound to vote on its proposals: lawmakers can tweak them, allow...
  • The Fix Was In’: Obama Donor Gets Sweetheart Real Estate Deal in Chicago

    01/26/2010 5:27:06 PM PST · by ColdOne · 4 replies · 716+ views
    Big Government ^ | January 26,2010 | Bob Gough
    With much-publicized ties between President Barack Obama, the SEIU labor union and the ACORN volunteer organization, it would be a safe assumption that someone with a business relationship with not just one, but both of those groups would have an inside track on doing business with an Obama associate. But in the world of big money Democratic Chicago politics, there is a difference between white-collar clout and blue-collar clout. Chicago real estate developer Thomas Bennett thought he had a deal in hand to purchase the old Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) building at 626 West Jackson, just blocks from Union Station....
  • Caption Obama and Biden

    01/22/2010 8:27:04 AM PST · by boughtwithaprice · 28 replies · 1,511+ views
  • Hillary Clinton's PR Guy Getting 6 MILLION DOLLARS from Stimulus 1!

    Here is one of the MANY commercials we all had to see on switching from ANALOG to DIGITAL TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjItFkWdgI Greta's show last night was asking why the government was paying for this. Does anyone know why? Why was a political flunkie given 6 million dollars in the stimulus 1 package to produce these commercials? I have found no answers but one and that is the online youtube video that claims that the new digital boxes are big brother watching equipped with mini-cameras and a microphone. Cameras in Digital Convert Boxes! BEWARE!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ4iIM8Eljc As nuts as the above sounds. As...
  • Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers? ( corruption alert )

    05/26/2009 2:50:41 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 19 replies · 1,989+ views
    NBER ^ | August 14, 2000 | Austan Goolsbee
    Conventional wisdom holds that the social rate of return to R&D significantly exceeds the private rate of return and, therefore, R&D should be subsidized. In the U.S., the government has directly funded a large fraction of total R&D spending. This paper shows that there is a serious problem with such government efforts to increase inventive activity. The majority of R&D spending is actually just salary payments for R&D workers. Their labor supply, however, is quite inelastic so when the government funds R&D, a significant fraction of the increased spending goes directly into higher wages. Using CPS data on wages of...
  • Obama: The Charming Menace to Peace and Prosperity

    04/09/2009 4:51:32 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies · 673+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | April 9, 2009 | Larry Elder
    Numb. At some point, that's about how one feels, isn't it? Didn't rogue nuclear power North Korea, in violation of yet another United Nations resolution, test-fire a long-range missile? Didn't this occur while President Barack Obama delivered a speech on nuclear disarmament? Isn't North Korea the same country that helped Syria build a nuclear reactor, showing North Korea's clear intention to sell and export its nuclear technology? And in response, didn't the President call for the United Nations Security Council -- the one that provides Russia and China with a veto -- to … take action?! Did the traditional media,...
  • Is Obama stealing the Clinto political machine?

    11/18/2008 6:02:57 PM PST · by cradle of freedom · 40 replies · 981+ views
    Doesn't it look like Obama is trying to steal all of Clinton's "soldiers"? It looks like he is going far beyond just reusing the old Cinton people for their experience. He is relying so much on the Clinton administration people that it really looks like he is doing it for political reasons. It looks like he is trying to eviscerate the Clinton machine. This way their loyalty will be to Obamana, not Hilary. This will also make it much more difficult for her to run against him in four years since most of the Clinton's old loyalists will be on...
  • Wolfowitz to Resign -- Effective June 30..

    05/17/2007 3:14:10 PM PDT · by yoely · 137 replies · 5,490+ views
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  • The Mess At DHS (Michelle Malkin)

    04/07/2006 6:27:44 AM PDT · by tgslTakoma · 34 replies · 1,740+ views
    Michelle Malkin ^ | April 7, 2006 | Michelle Malkin
    THE MESS AT DHS By Michelle Malkin   ·   April 07, 2006 08:45 AM Brian J. Doyle: Just one of many creeps and losers at DHS The arrest of Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian J. Doyle on felony charges of sexually preying on a undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl this week is just the latest debacle for the bureaucratic behemoth. I dealt with Doyle a few times while reporting on the incompetence of leaders at the Federal Air Marshals Service over the past couple of years. He was a standard-issue, CYA mouthpiece. And as disgusted rank-and-file employees of...
  • Brown says Bush "Hung Him Out to Dry"

    02/27/2006 3:58:09 PM PST · by meandog · 99 replies · 3,114+ views
    Former FEMA head Michael Brown complained to NBC's Brian Williams on his "Nightly News" show that he was "hung out to dry" by President Bush. "As one of the president's appointee," Brown said, "I realized that I would have to fall on my sword for the president...and I did, but I didn't realize that he would leave me on the battlefield." Brown said also that "he had wished he had told Americans that Katrina "was the worst disaster the country had ever faced" instead of relying on the "talking points" supplied.
  • Ohio Issues Promoting Campaign Corruption Overwhelm Voters with Hundreds of Words of Legalese

    11/08/2005 6:27:00 AM PST · by xzins · 25 replies · 742+ views
    THE TRUTH, folks, is that these are all extremely detailed issues written in bizarre LEGALESE. There are hundreds of words on these things, and most people can't even begin to explain what they'll do....or what POLITICIANS and LAWYERS will do WITH THEM in the years to come. Vote NO on all issues JUST TO SEND THE MESSAGE that politicians should not clutter up ballots with hundreds of words of legalistic junk that no one can understand in the few minutes they get to stand inside a voting booth! Issues: 1. The Pro “Crony Finance” Amendment. This supposed “pro job” amendment...
  • Bush names Greenspan successor

    10/25/2005 2:48:42 PM PDT · by FreeKeys · 234+ views
    Cafe Hayek ^ | 10/24/05 | Russell Roberts
    In a surprise announcement that shocked the economics community, President Bush named Robert McCleskey, his personal tax accountant, to succeed Alan Greenspan. McCleskey, who has little or no track record in the area of monetary policy, will now face the rigors of a grueling confirmation process. Given the defining nature of the appointment and the challenges of filling Greenspan's legendary shoes, some observers were surprised the President chose McCleskey, a man who has never written on anything vaguely related to the Federal Reserve or monetary issues. When asked about why he chose McCleskey the President responded aggressively. "He's a heckuva...
  • Cronies Here and There

    10/12/2005 2:42:06 PM PDT · by indcons · 26 replies · 624+ views
    www.nationalreview.com ^ | October 12, 2005 | Jonah Goldberg
    Washington is suddenly hung up on cronyism. According to a quick Lexis-Nexis search, roughly 1,000 stories have mentioned "cronyism" and "Bush" in the last two months alone. It was Michael Brown's putatively dismal performance at FEMA that got the anti-crony buzz going and Bush's selection of Harriet Miers that sent it into the stratosphere. But President Bush has been setting the tinder for quite some time by so successfully keeping a tight inner circle of loyalists in the White House. When he was reelected, Bush made the strategically wise decision of dispatching these loyalists to run important Cabinet agencies, in...
  • Colin Powell enlists with prominent venture capital firm

    07/14/2005 8:40:10 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 6 replies · 287+ views
    The Centre Daily Times ^ | Wed, Jul. 13, 2005 | MICHAEL LIEDTKE -- Associated Press
    For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SAN FRANCISCO - Colin Powell's next tour of duty will be in venture capital. The old soldier, who was formerly Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has enlisted with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capital firms. As a strategic limited partner, Powell will have an undisclosed stake in some of the investments made by a Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins, which has previously struck it rich with a list of renowned startups that include online search engine leader Google Inc. and Web browser...
  • 'Not as if I spend time' with childhood pal, Blago says

    04/28/2005 8:11:48 AM PDT · by Mike Bates · 2 replies · 233+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 4/28/2005 | Robert C. Herguth and Lynn Sweet
    Gov. Blagojevich distanced himself Wednesday from a boyhood pal accused of invoking his own position in state government and friendship with the governor to try to get out of a drunken-driving arrest earlier this month in McHenry County. "I haven't seen him -- maybe once -- since I've been governor," Blagojevich said about Daniel E. Stefanski, whom the governor hired for a six-figure job with the Illinois Department of Transportation a few months after taking office. It's "not as if I spend time with him." In Washington on other business, Blagojevich also said he's instructed his transportation secretary, Tim Martin,...