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| Articles about Oversight |
| Boumediene v. Bush, Another View -- Judicial Oversight of Terrorist Detainment Essential to Freedom | | 2008-06-16 13:37:22 | | Jeffrey Imm's passionate denunciation of the majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush , published here , takes vigorous exception to the principle that the federal courts should have the right to analyze the detention of persons that a U.S. executive authority has deemed to be "unlawful foreign enemy combatants." For others, and I am among them, the principle that is being vindicated in this decision is fundamental to protecting our liberty, namely, the right of each person to have fully independent...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
| | Audit finds lax oversight in contractor payments | | 2008-05-23 10:44:58 | | WASHINGTON (AP) - An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent.
Of the money paid during a five-year period - from [...] | | By: TexasFred's | | |
| | Must Have Just Been an Oversight | | 2008-04-10 10:46:00 | | My softball-playing friend, the Wayward Oriole, had this on his blog a short time ago. Apparently he wound up on a mailing list after buying tickets to an Orioles-Yankees game in the Bronx last year and received a brochure from the Yankees entitled "The Final Season," which is all about the Yankees and their last season in the second version of the ballpark. (The first one, the original one, was destroyed back in 1973.) He posted the table of contents on his site, and something jumped out at me. My favorite Yankee Stadium moments didn't make it, namely, "The Amazing, Colossal Choke of 2004 Before a Throng of Fans Who Had to Burn All That '1918' and 'Curse' Crap Once and For All."Must have just been an oversight. My thanks to the Wayward O for putting it on his site, as I wouldn't in a million years lower myself to actually read such rubbish. | | By: The Mighty Quinn Media Machine | | |
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| Expand Federal Reserve Oversight and Control? | | 2008-03-31 11:15:46 | | Hank Paulson’s wildly moronic plan to deal with the current financial crisis via massively expanded Federal Reserve System (privately owned) oversight of the total financial sphere of the economy smacks 100% of “not-goodness”.
There is something inherently wrong with the following chain of activity:
1. Federal Reserve System helps foment seriously unstable financial circumstances (credit bubble)
2. Federal [...] | | By: Ponder This | | |
| | Finally Some Oversight at NJHESAA | | 2008-03-04 19:18:43 | | Ever since I started paying back my student loans some 20 months ago, I’ve been complaining about how inept and downright rude the people at the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority are on the telephone. Not only do they treat you like you are trying to get away with something, but they [...] | | By: Joe's Journal | | |
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| | Taco Bell Menu Oversight | | 2007-10-03 22:14:00 | | Dear Taco Bell,Since your online customer complaint form only allows 250 words, I'll make this brief:It's one thing to save money by using sporks instead of spoons and forks, but to then supply cheap sporks that break before you can even get them out of their plastic wrap is just mean. I shattered two sporks before I was finally able to poke one out of its plastic bag. I then had to explain to my confused toddler what the heck it was and why she should eat with it."Penny, use your spork," I said when she began shoveling the beef and rice dish into her mouth with her hands."My what?" she asked."Your...forget it." It was better she just use her hands then play your dirty game of spork. I tried to spear a piece of beef to lift to my mouth but the tiny teeth of my spork were unable meet the task. I ended up using my fingers as well.At the end of our meal I cleared the table of spork fragments and the taco debris. I was headed for the door when my eye caught sight of the condiments bar. Don't bother reviewing the security tape, I'll just tell you. I grabbed two fistfuls of Fire Border Sauce packets and shoved them into my purse. That's right. I'm sporking it to The Man. Doesn't feel so good, does it?Shame on you, Taco Bell. Shame on you. | | By: Hollywood Flakes: Get 'em While They're Hot | | |
| | California and Other States to Seek More Microsoft’s Oversight | | 2007-08-31 07:18:00 | | A group of states that led by California said in a court that ending Microsoft’s business practices oversight in November would not allow enough time to consider the antitrust implications of the new Window Vista operating system.
The software maker, the Justice Department and a group of states led by California have been asked to submit reports on Thursday by US District Judge Collen
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| | Politics: Bush claims oversight exemption (Of course he does) | | 2007-06-24 06:31:43 | | WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.
An executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 — amending an existing order — requires all government agencies that are part [...] | | By: What a Weenie! | | |
| | Senator Kohl Decries Deceptive And Confusing Sales Practices Of Medicare Advantage Plans, Vows Continued Oversight By Committe | | 2007-05-17 14:40:00 | | PRESS RELEASE May 16, 2007Spurred by Hearing, Industry Promises to Improve Training of Insurance AgentsWASHINGTON – At a hearing held today by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) challenged the sales and marketing practices employed by insurance agents selling Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage plans, which are private plan options offered to Medicare beneficiaries as an alternative to traditional Medicare, now account for nearly 20 percent of total Medicare plans and are an increasingly profitable enterprise for many corporate providers. The Committee’s investigation has uncovered such questionable sales practices as removing seniors from traditional Medicare without their knowledge, signing seniors up for plans they cannot afford, and misleading seniors regarding which physicians and hospitals accept the plan. Officials representing the state insurance commissions from Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Georgia offered testimony about complaints | | By: Elder Abuse | | |
| | Oversight for Overseas Medicine | | 2007-05-09 02:30:00 | | The Cafferty File, part of The Situation Room on CNN, poses a question every hour The Situation Room is on. This is today's 4:00 question, and Thoughts on the World's response.------------------------------------------------------------Should Americans be allowed to buy prescription drugs from abroad?Americans should be allowed to buy prescription drugs, with oversight. The FDA should set up part of its department to oversee the overseas medicine market. If were not careful, standards will be lost and worthless drugs will be bought. Freedom of trade can't be allowed to exist without supervision. | | By: Thoughts on the World | | |
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