Month: March 2006

H.R.4167, the new food labelling legislation (National Uniformity for Food Act), has passed in the House.  (The Senate version is still pending.)  This is so, despite the fact that hearings were never held.  Many...

[Guess this is “true confessions” week here at the Frog Pond…well, they do say that confession is good for the soul…] I’m ashamed of myself this morning. Last night, the spouse and I stopped at...

Forty years ago, CEOs earned $24 for each $1 workers got; in 2004, CEOs got $431 for every worker dollar. In 2004, total CEO compensation averaged $12 million, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. You Senators and...

….Presidential orders, even those issued as commander-in-chief, are subject to restrictions imposed by Congress. A Congressional declaration of war, for example, limits Presidential powers, narrows the focus of the action,...

The National Security Archive has obtained a Justice Department e-mail on the NSA wiretapping program through a FOIA lawsuit. The Justice Department official who oversaw national security matters from 2000 to 2003 e-mailed his...