A World Bank economist is trying to shame the U.S. for being home to one half of the world’s richest people, the so-called 1%. In reality, it’s the world that should be red-faced for not creating wealth as America does. Bank chief economist Branko Milanovic has come out with a book called “The Haves and the Have Nots,” whose purpose seems to be to argue there’s something... 

via The Daily Beast Obama Embraces Signing Statements After Knocking Bush for Using Them Candidate Barack Obama criticized President Bush for using ‘signing statements’ to ignore the will of Congress. But Obama’s done the same thing 20 times since taking office, and his latest effort is rankling lawmakers As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama promised that if he was elected president he would... 

BACKGROUNDER: In The Past, What Democrats Have Said About Obama’s Unprecedented Recess Appointment Today Obama’s Recess Appointment Would Break 20 Years Of Precedent And Contradict A Brief Issued By The Clinton Justice Department Which “Obama’s Own Deputy Solictor General Cited Last Year.” “ President Obama is under strong pressure from liberals to use his recess-appointment power... 

Article One, section Five of the Constitution states: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days… This presents a problem for President Obama, who claims to have just made a recess appointment when the Senate is not actually in recess. The Constitution says the Senate cannot recess for more than three days without... 

Dear Leader once again circumvents congressional checks and balances.  The Senate is NOT ON RECESS – they have been holding pro forma sessions every few days and are considered to still be in session.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner have both released statements that mildly show their disapproval of this, but sadly, no one is going to stop him. In a defiant... 

A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee,... 

If you’re going to call for a revolution, it helps to make sure that everyone’s on board with it, right? Apparently, that didn’t occur to the #OccupyOakland protesters who called for a general strike, but didn’t realize that the majority of people would rather work to pay their bills, send their kids to school and, you know, live their everyday lives. Read the rest here:  #OccupyOakland calls... 

It seems like it would be one of the hardest jobs in the country right now, especially as a poll published today reveals that only 41 per cent of people want him to have a second term. But President Obama often finishes his working day at 4pm, it has been reported. Sources claim that Mr Obama regularly strolls out of the Oval Office way before the afternoon has ended. See you later: Barack Obama reportedly... 

A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday described as “inconceivable” a Justice Department decision to promote key Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel who oversaw the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons investigation that allowed hundreds of guns to be walked into Mexico to new positions in Washington. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas,... 

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