Congressman Pete Hoekstra On His Controversial Super Bowl Ad - FoxNews - YouTube

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Congressman Pete Hoekstra On His Controversial Super Bowl Ad - FoxNews - YouTube

San Francisco county Audit Finds Broad Irregularities in Foreclosures - NYTimes.com

San Francisco county Audit Finds Broad Irregularities in Foreclosures

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

Published: February 15, 2012

An audit by San Francisco county officials of about 400 recent foreclosures there determined that almost all involved either legal violations or suspicious documentation, according to a report released Wednesday.

Anecdotal evidence indicating foreclosure abuse has been plentiful since the mortgage boom turned to bust in 2008. But the detailed and comprehensive nature of the San Francisco findings suggest how pervasive foreclosure irregularities may be across the nation.

The improprieties range from the basic — a failure to warn borrowers that they were in default on their loans as required by law — to the arcane. For example, transfers of many loans in the foreclosure files were made by entities that had no right to assign them and institutions took back properties in auctions even though they had not proved ownership.

.... California Audit Finds Broad Irregularities in Foreclosures - NYTimes.com

Rachel Maddow: Romney's yawning favorability gap leaves opening for Santorum

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Outsourcing death - NYTimes.com

Outsourcing death

By ROD NORDLAND

Published: February 11, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan — Even dying is being outsourced here.

This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the private sector. Many American generals and diplomats have private contractors for their personal bodyguards. And along with the risks have come the consequences: More civilian contractors working for American companies than American soldiers died in Afghanistan last year for the first time during the war.

American employers here are under no obligation to publicly report the deaths of their employees and frequently do not. While the military announces the names of all its war dead, private companies routinely notify only family members. Most of the contractors die unheralded and uncounted — and in some cases, leave their survivors uncompensated.

... Afghan War Risks Are Shifting to Contractors - NYTimes.com