Archive for June, 2009
Yemeni airliner crashes near Comoros
A Yemeni Airbus 310 passenger plane traveling from Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, to the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean, crashed early Tuesday as it approached the islands, killing most of the 153 people on board. A Comoros police official says a child has been rescued alive from the sea, but he knew of no other [...]
US financier given 150-year sentence for $65 billion fraud
A U.S. district judge has sentenced 71-year-old financier Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison for perpetrating the biggest investment scam ever in the United States.
US hands over control of Iraqi cities
Iraqi forces officially assumed control of Baghdad and other cites across the country early Tuesday, following the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from urban areas. Celebrations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, include music, dance and poetry.
Bulky cap-and-trade bill raises more of a stink than a solution
The cap-and-trade bill passed the House of Representatives shrouded in a fog of willful ignorance and calculated irrationality.
Libertarians remind Obama of his “firm pledge” not to tax health care benefits
WASHINGTON — America’s third largest party Tuesday reminded President Barack Obama that supporting a proposed $246 billion tax on employer-provided health care benefits – a proposal he opposed as “the biggest middle-class tax increase in history” in campaign ads – would break his promise to oppose any form of tax increase on families making less [...]
Cap and Trade will lead to Capital flight
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration’s [...]
