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Politics and Culture - January 2008

Hey Mukasey, waterboarding is torture!

January 31st 2008 03:36
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appeared before the Senate’s Judiciary Committee on January 30, 2008 during the first oversight hearing for the Justice Department since Mukasey became the attorney general.

“Given that waterboarding is not part of the current program and may never be added to the current program, I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to pass definitive judgment on the technique’s legality,” Mukasey said to the Committee


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Income Disparities are on the Rise

January 25th 2008 06:23
Since President George W. Bush took office in January 2001 the income disparities between the richest and the poorest have increased. For the first time everyone on the 2006 Forbes 400 list was a billionaire. The 2005 Forbes 400 list contained 374 billionaires, with a combined net worth of $1.13 trillion. No new editions were added to the 2005 list. Steve Forbes, Forbes magazine publisher, did not make the list because his net worth is only $400 million.

A 2004 study by UC Berkeley professor Emmanuel Saez reported that the income of the median household in 2004 only increased by 1.6 percent. During the 1998 to 2001 period it increased by 9.5 percent. The tax cuts Bush and the Republican National Committee make much noise about do not benefit the working poor. The median income taxpayer receives a tax cut of $600, while a $10 million dollar wage earner receives a $500,000 tax cut


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