"ACORN has had its share of problems, as have dozens of other organizations funded by the federal government, including some of the largest defense contractors and drug companies in the world," he told me. "What is distressing is that the Senate was steamrolled into voting to strip ACORN of its funding based on an apparently distorted video played over and over"The rightwing echo chamber is two for two," he said. "And no one should have any illusions that it won't be back again again on Fox."

Health insurers shifting costs ahead of law: report
Thu, Apr 15 2010
By Susan Heavey

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices to book administration costs as medical costs in an attempt to circumvent new industry reforms, according to a U.S. Senate panel's report released on Thursday.

Bills have many holes to fill in NFL Draft
Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- As the latest in what's become a long line of Buffalo Bills general managers, Buddy Nix can appreciate he's not going to win anyone over with pie-in-the-sky promises of how he intends to turn around a flat-lining franchise.

April 19, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
Looters in Loafers
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Last October, I saw a cartoon by Mike Peters in which a teacher asks a student to create a sentence that uses the verb “sacks,” as in looting and pillaging. The student replies, “Goldman Sachs.”

Sure enough, last week the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the Gucci-loafer guys at Goldman of engaging in what amounts to white-collar looting.

Accusations that Goldman defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky subprime mortgages have only just begun to reverberate through the financial world.