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Source: news.google.com --- 32 days ago
National Post Wal-Mart greeters like Dems: Obama, McCaskill, Waxman Los Angeles Times - Aug 1, 2008 Evidently, some Wal-Mart employees didn’t get the word about the McCain-TBA ticket. They’re still giving their cash to Democrats, even though, as the Wall Street Journal disclosed, the retailing behemoth from Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart says it didn't push employees to vote against Democrats New York Daily News Wal-Mart's Desperate War Against Unionization Huffington Post Reuters  - Wall Street Journal  - ToTheCenter.com  - CBS News all 453 news articles ...

Source: phobos.apple.com --- 20 days ago
David Waxman Presents Ultra.Club by Various Artists ...

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 29 days ago
*Freddie Mac said its losses from foreclosures and other failed home loans nearly doubled in the second quarter, and it predicted that home prices would fall more than it previously projected, compounding its woes. Freddie said its expenses from foreclosures and related problems rose to $2.8 billion in the quarter ended June 30 from $1.4 billion in the previous three months. From the end of March to the end of June, the company more than doubled its reserves for anticipated losses to reflect continuing increases in mortgage delinquencies and the rising cost of disposing of foreclosed property. Overall, the McLean company lost $821 million ($1.63 per share) in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $151 million (66 cents) in the quarter that ended March 31. For the second quarter of 2007, Freddie Mac reported a profit of $729 million. *Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 24 days ago
Sharon Waxman, the former New York Times' Hollywood correspondent, is planning to launch a Web site dealing with all aspects of the entertainment scene. According to a press release obtained by MarketWatch, Waxman's The Wrap LLC is expected to announce ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 24 days ago
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sharon Waxman, the former New York Times' Hollywood correspondent, is planning to launch a Web site dealing with all aspects of the entertainment scene. According to a press release obtained by MarketWatch, Waxman's The Wrap LLC ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 33 days ago
Rep. Henry Waxman says in the Democrats' weekly radio address that Congress is working to overcome years of GOP neglect, and that health care will be a top priority in the next administration. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 34 days ago
Evidently, some Wal-Mart employees didn’t get the word about the McCain-TBA ticket. They’re still giving their cash to Democrats, even though, as the Wall Street Journal disclosed, the retailing behemoth from Bentonville, Ark., is trying to persuade its store managers and department supervisors to vote Republican. The low-price leader has waged running battles with unions, and fears that a Democratic administration and Congress could impose laws opening the way for the greeters, clerks and others at the global empire Sam Walton built to organize unions. Of course, official Wal-Mart spokespeople deny any such push. But a cursory review of donations at the Federal Election Commission shows that Wal-Mart and its employees show a significant amount going to Democratic candidates and political action committees. Donors identifying their employer as Wal-Mart gave $33,877 to Democratic candidates -- including $7,337 to Barack Obama. They gave $55,761 to Republicans, including $7,250 to John McCain. The company clearly is playing both sides, unlike in the past. Data compiled by Congressional Quarterly show that Wal-Mart’s political action committee gave 52% of its money, or $460,500, to Republicans and 48%, or $425,200, to Democrats in 2007-2008 election cycle. A decade ago, more than 90% of its money went to Republicans. Prominent recipients include some mentioned as Obama’s potential running mates: Sen. Claire McCaskill, Sen. Evan Bayh, ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
Mac MacGuff: And this, of course, is Juno. Mark Loring: Like the city in Alaska? Juno MacGuff: No. -- from Juno , directed by Jason Reitman Honest to Blog. What were the odds that commie-lefty-Obama-loving Hollywood would create the real-life template for the shenanigans playing out at the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota? We're talking about the Sarah Palin drama about to come whirling down into the Xcel Energy Center like some hurricane blown up from the south. Except that this hurricane is coming down from the north, west of Juneau, Alaska, led by a former beauty queen turned schoolmarm politician-turned-vortex of hot molten media interest. Juneau, Juno, what were the odds? It sure seems as if life will be imitating art today, as Palin brings her MacGuff-like clan -- teenaged pregnant daughter, Bristol, and the teenaged father of the baby, Levi Johnston. Rise, evangelical base, and hail their choice to keep the baby. This sounds way too familiar. So I called my friend Jason Reitman, the director of "Juno" to ask him. " You'll recall that this tiny film that was not about teenaged pregnancy even while being about teenaged pregnancy somehow grossed over $100 million, and became Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Reitman, first of all, is Canadian and not voting. Regardless, any similarities between Juno and Juneau are, he insists, pure coincidence. "Twenty-four hours into this story, there's no real way to tell whether l ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 6 days ago
My husband refused to watch Barack Obama. He stayed in the bedroom, clicking on French television while the first African-American to seriously contest the U.S. presidency accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party before a throbbing wall of humanity in Invesco Field. "This moment, this election, is our chance to keep the American promise alive," Obama said, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech about his own lofty dreams. It was history, live. My husband wasn't interested. Me, I like Obama. How can I not? He's likeable. He's intelligent. Articulate. Empathic. Optimistic. Listening to him, it is possible - even just for a second or two - to leave behind the cynicism of our life experience. To embrace his belief, secretly our own, that as a country we can change. That as individuals we can grow and improve and collectively become a better society. That despite the obvious - that we are a deeply divided nation -- we can find common ground. My husband doesn't want to hear it. Which is kind of crazy. An immigrant to this country and a political junkie, my husband finally took the oath of American citizenship two years ago so that he could vote. This will be his first presidential election as a U.S. citizen, and yet he has sworn - since Hillary fell out of the running -- that he is going to sit it out. He will not vote for Obama, and he can't support John McCain and the party of a failed administration. Obama, my ...

Source: thinkprogress.org --- 22 days ago
Earlier this month, the Pentagon ignored a subpoena and blocked Dr. Kaye Whitley, the director of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, from testifying. After Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) threatened to hold Defense Secretary Bob Gates in contempt and wrote a letter to him yesterday, Gates today finally agreed to allow Whitley to testify. [...] ...

Source: www.britannica.com --- 35 days ago
Click here to begin the broadcast. Information, Please! was one of the most popular, and literate, shows on American radio, airing from 1938-1948 and running briefly as a TV show in the early 1950s. Its format was novel: instead of quizzing contestants from the general public, listeners submitted questions to quiz the experts, and if they stumped the resident eggheads, they won money and (for many years) a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica . Its master of ceremonies was the warm and witty Clifton Fadiman, literary editor of the New Yorker magazine and a longtime member of Britannica's Board of Editors. The Britannica Blog is proud to highlight one of these broadcasts each Friday. So, "Wake Up!"---as the show's announcer would say at the start of each broadcast. "It's Time to Stump the Experts!" ...

Source: www.oversight.house.gov --- 32 days ago
Chairman Henry A. Waxman released the following statement today upon the release of new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) HIV incidence numbers. ...

Source: reform.democrats.house.gov --- 28 days ago
In a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, Chairman Waxman and Chairman Oberstar requested information about whether the Corps is undermining the Clean Water Act with recent decisions affecting the Los Angeles River and Santa Cruz River. ...

Source: reform.democrats.house.gov --- 34 days ago
In a letter to EPA Administrator Johnson, Chairman Waxman and Chairman Oberstar requested that documents regarding EPA's faltering enforcement of the Clean Water Act be provided to the Committees by August 14, 2008. ...

Source: reform.democrats.house.gov --- 22 days ago
In a letter to EPA, Chairman Waxman reiterates and expands his request for information on the costs of EPA's numerous losses in court, which include taxpayer dollars wasted and delays in public health and environmental protections. ...

Source: www.oversight.house.gov --- 29 days ago
On August 2, 2008, Chairman Waxman delivered the Democratic Radio Address. In his address, Chairman Waxman discussed critical legislation passed by the House this week that addresses the health and safety of America's children. ...

Source: www.oversight.house.gov --- 13 days ago
Chairman Waxman issued a subpoena to compel the EPA to provide documents relating to the agency's faltering enforcement of the Clean Water Act. ...

Source: www.oversight.house.gov --- 34 days ago
Chairman Henry A. Waxman released a statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency issuance of an air permit for the Desert Rock Energy Facility, a new coal-fired power plant. ...

Source: www.poynter.org --- 28 days ago
Sharon Waxman Sharon Waxman reports that one of the private equity firms that owns the Nielsen Company floated the idea of a Hollywood Reporter purchase by the New York Times at a Times board meeting this week. "But that doesn't sound like the right fit to me," she writes. "The New York Times is not in the business-to-business business. And I'm not sure why a big media company saddled with a core print business would take on more dead-tree properties." ...

Source: www.democrats.org --- 33 days ago
Click the links below to play the mp3 file. var fo = new FlashObject("http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v005/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/flash/players/mp3/20060825_mp3_player.swf", "mymovie", "200", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF", true); fo.addVariable("config", "http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/flash/players/mp3/config.xml"); fo.addVariable("file", "http://www.democrats.org/page/-/audio/radio_addresses/20080802%20Waxman.mp3"); fo.write("flashcontent"); "Good morning. This is Congressman Henry Waxman of California, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "This was a great week in the House of Representatives for the children of America. On one single day, we passed two critically important pieces of legislation. The first, to reinvigorate the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and strengthen its ability to assure safe toys for our children. The second is legislation that provides the authority to regulate tobacco and stop tobacco companies from targeting our kids. "Over the last eight years, the key federal agencies responsible for protecting the public health have been muzzled. The CPSC became almost defunct. The Safety Commission failed to protect children against dangerous levels of lead in toys, and it did nothing to stop the use of dangerous chemicals in plastic toys. This was one of the reasons that Senator Barack Obama and I introduced legislation in 2005 to m ...