Epstein Secrets

d by the chief judge, with the rest furloughed. (The Supreme Court will continue to ope=ate when it opens Oct. 7, as it did in previous shutdowns.) Department of Treasury: 80 percent of the 112,461 employees have been sent home. (Those sending out Social Security checks were asked to stay; IRS employees overseeing aud

ernment is not allowed to make any new spending commitments (save for all the exceptions noted above). By con=rast, if we hit the debt-ceiling then the Treasury Department won't be able to borrow money to pay for spending that Congr=ss has already approved. In that case, either Congress will have to lift th= debt ceili

lley, "make yourself obsolete before=someone else does." =font size="4"> As many of you know,=I am also a huge fan of Bill Moyers and last week on Moyers & Company, in an essay following his =onversation with Greenpeace International's Kumi Naidoo, Bill Moyers links Naidoo's cour=ge in speaking truth to power

in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. The 2011 study said the combined cost of the wars was at least $3.7 trillion, based on actual expenditures from the U.S. Treasury and future commitments, such as the medical and disability claims of U.S. war veterans. That estimate climbed to nearly $4 trillion in the update. A

ICANS should not disappoint you. I give this new series.... a solid "A." As most of you know, I am a big fan of Bill Moyers and this week's show on Moyers & Company was an encore: Ending the Silence on Climate Change with scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communicatio

national Group, more than four years after it bailed out the insurance giant with a package of assistance that eventually totaled $180 billion with the Treasury Department saying that it made "a positive return" of $22.7 billion. But whether the government profited from the bailout is not important. The truly vital iss

ratic system. Thomas Jefferson said, "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." On a recent episode of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers said, "In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in America. In 1990 the number had dropped to 23. In 1997, 10. And today