Fixing the Housing Rescue Plan: Obama to Offer New Incentives to Servicers

Here’s another interesting tidbit from The Wall Street Journal: The Obama Administration is expected to unveil new incentives today to encourage servicers to modify loans — particularly second mortgages. The failure to address the problem of second mortgages in the initial housing rescue plan launched in March was a More…

U.K. To Investigate Its Role in U.S. Torture Policies

It’s interesting to note the contrast when someone charges government complicity with torture in the United Kingdom, versus here in the United States.

Ever since Binyam Mohamed — the Ethiopian-born Guantanamo detainee who claims he was tortured as part of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program (and whom I’ve written about More…