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Rep. Hilda Solis, D-CA, should be asked in her Senate confirmation process as President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor to explain why she approved funds to pay for congressional lobbying by a union-supported non-profit group on two bills she co-sponsored. She should also explain why she failed to note this on her financial disclosure report. She should further explain her role in approving spending by the non-profit group on "electioneering" television ads targeting incumbent Republican senators during the 2008 campaign. Besides being a congressman, Solis is treasurer and a member of the board of directors of American Rights...

In what looks like an instant replay of other senate confirmation hearings over the last ten days, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor has now revealed income tax problems. Hard to believe, but true. A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a hearing to consider Representative Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor. Oops. Pangs of conscience convinced Solis’ husband to pay $6,400 in tax liens YESTERDAY. The liens had been piling up against his business for up for 16 years, so it appears to be yet another remarkable coincidence that yet another of Obama’s nominees has decided to come clean...

Pardon the vanity in breaking news, but we can not link to USA Today articles and the Labor Secretary is about to be voted on this afternoon. The link above can be followed to find the article in keeping with no direct linking to USA Today policy. It was learned just hours prior to the confirmation vote that the usband of Obama's Labor nominee paid tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.

A seemingly innocuous letter sent to the Clerk of the House of Representatives last Thursday by President Obama's Secretary of Labor nominee Hilda Solis raises serious and troubling legal questions about her nomination and apparent violation of House ethics rules. Not only was she involved with a private organization that was lobbying her fellow legislators on a bill that she has cosponsored, but she apparently kept her involvement secret and failed to reveal a clear conflict of interest. Solis was a co-sponsor in 2007 of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act," the card check legislation that would effectively eliminate the...

The Senate on Tuesday is expected to attempt unanimous-approval votes of President-elect Obama’s Cabinet nominees, but it is uncertain who will be cleared by the upper chamber on Inauguration Day. Senate Democratic leaders have circulated a unanimous consent request for 15 nominations at various departments, from Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton to United Nations Ambassador nominee Susan Rice. A senior Democratic aide cautions that leaders are uncertain how many will actually win unanimous approval, and that any roll-call votes that are necessary would be held on Wednesday. The 15 names also include Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, Agriculture...

You might think a confirmation hearing for, say, the labor secretary would elicit her views on, say, labor issues. Not, it seems, in the case of Barack Obama's nominee, California Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis. Should President-elect Obama lift the Bush-era executive order requiring that federally funded construction projects be open to both union and nonunion contractors? "Senator, I would just say to you that that is an item of great interest to me. I think that that is something that I am not able to speak to you (about) at this time but will like to review and then come...

President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Labor Department has close ties to U.S. communist and socialist organizations and has sent representatives to functions organized by national parties for both ideologies. The pick of Rep. Hilda L. Solis, D-Calif., a Congressional Hispanic Caucus leader considered to be one of the most reliably pro-union voices in the House, was hailed as a victory by communist and socialist leaders...... An article this past weekend in the Communist Party USA's People's Weekly World Newspaper welcomed Solis and quoted known socialist leaders calling her a "great choice" and an "outstanding" selection with "a life-long...

American Patrol Report Solis video online According to Lou Dobbs Tonight (12/19/08) "Several Internet sites opposed to illegal immigration have posted a statement they claim Solis made in 1996 to a voter registration group that, quote, 'we are all Americans whether you are legalized or not.'" The American Patrol Report has the video showing Solis making this statement. Here it is. // Click here for more info.... video link: http://americanpatrol.com/WMV/081220-SolisSWVP.wmv

IX. Captain Randy Stone That brings us back to Marine Capt Randy Stone. On 19 November 2005 he was in Iraq, attached to the 3d Battalion, 1st Marines, at Forward Operating Base Sparta. In nearby Haditha, a Marine patrol from Kilo- 3/1 is alleged to have murdered twenty-four Iraqi noncombatants. Over the next few months their courts-martial will take place at Camp Pendleton, California, prosecuted by JAs of the 1st Marine Division’s SJA Office, where I was a trial counsel for six years. Along with four enlisted Marines who were in Haditha, their platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, and...

The AMLO campaign insider emphasizes that they are trying to count vote by vote to recover the legitimacy of last Sunday's electoral process The For the Good of All coalition is not trying to annul the presidential election, but only to count the votes and recover the legitimacy of last Sunday's electoral process, militant PRD member Manuel Camacho Solis indicated [today]. While presenting a brief talk in a "2006: Year of Elections, Year of Reflections" seminar at the College of Mexico, the field team member of presidential candidate Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador maintained that their party has decided not to...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's Supreme Court on Thursday refused to strip Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution, blocking yet another attempt to try him for alleged human rights abuses during his dictatorship. The Court's 15-4 vote rejected a lower court ruling that would have stripped the 89-year-old former ruler of the legal immunity he enjoys as former president. In announcing its decision the Supreme Court did not immediately publish the text of its ruling, which is believed to be based mainly on Pinochet's deteriorated health. On Dec. 2, the Santiago Court of Appeals had voted 14-9 to...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - The documentary that Sinclair Broadcast Group has instructed 40 of its television stations to feature in a broadcast on Friday night makes some of the most serious accusations against Senator John Kerry of the campaign. The accusations include that he single-handedly prolonged the Vietnam War, worsened the torture of prisoners of war and ultimately caused countless, needless deaths with his antiwar activism 30 years ago. The film is rife with out-of-context and incomplete quotations from Mr. Kerry and other antiwar veterans. Several historians said many accusations in it were not provable or stretched far beyond reality....