Posts Tagged ‘tool’

Honduran Congress approves impeachment tool after Zelaya debacle

Tegucigalpa (Reuters) – Honduras' Congress on Tuesday approved a measure that allows senior political officials including the president to be prosecuted and removed from office, lawmakers said. The impeachment mechanism is aimed at avoiding crises such as the one that erupted in the Central American country in 2009, when former President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown [...]

American Voices: ‘Hatecore’ Music Used As Recruitment Tool

The revelation that Wisconsin shooter Wade Michael Page played in the hardcore punk white-power bands End Apathy and Definite Hate has increased the public’s awareness of the so-called ‘hatecore’ style of music, which is used as a recrui… Tweet This Post

Analysis: Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool

LONDON (Reuters) – Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a ‘central bank’ or other policy tool to manage future imbalances in the world’s biggest carbon market. If it does act, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive, is cautious [...]

For Obama, bin Laden killing becomes campaign tool

The killing of Osama bin Laden has become a campaign weapon for President Barack Obama. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

RNC Seeks to Turn Facebook Into a Political Tool

The RNC “is preparing to launch a new Facebook tool that lets users share news, talking points and the latest updates about the presidential campaign with their friends,” CNN reports. Tweet This Post

Methodology for TRAC’s judge tool and AP analysis

The data and the new interactive judge tool were developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University over 15 years of research. Data were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act in a series of four lawsuits against the Justice Department, and then combined with information obtained directly from the federal courts. The [...]