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    Here Is A Bailout Plan That Makes Sense

    Newspapers are dead.  I mean the kind that get ink on your hands.  How do I know newspapers are dead?  Because I started reading newspapers when I was 9 years old.  I loved the NY Herald Tribune.   Unfortunately The Herald shut down a couple of years later and I was forced to become a New York Times reader which was much more dry [...]



    Sound Familiar? Hannan Tears Brown a New One

    Sounds like the EU is struggling with very similar problems as we have in this country.  Here is a great speech given yesterday by Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South East England:

    Even if you don’t agree with the content, you have to admire the presentation.  We need more people in our media and more politicians to stand [...]



    what do politicians hate more than anything else?

    Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure.

    So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it:

    SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media.

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    whatever happened to a.i.g. freezing executive bonuses

    and clawing back those they’d already paid out? From October 22, 2008:

    NY AG says targeting exec pay at AIG, elsewhere

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Troubled insurer American International Group Inc will freeze payments to a former CEO and officers of the unit that was the main source of its financial problems, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

    “This is to [...]



    Buyer Beware – CNBC and All of the MSM

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    Cenk Uygur has a post over at Huffpo that nails down the real issue with CNBC that Jon Stewart so skillfully mocks in the video contained in the post immediately below this one:

    I have a close friend who works at a business news station — and here is the worst kept secret in show business — it’s all [...]



    militia-madness is back

    And Sarah Palin is their poster girl:

    Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

    In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun [...]



    Election Day 2008 – Time to Vote

    From Clark County Elections Office:

    November 4, 2008 general election – mail ballots now available

    Ballots for the November 4 general election are now available at the Clark County Elections Department, 1408 Franklin Street, Vancouver. Election Department office hours are from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Additionally, the Clark County Elections Department will be open on both Saturday, October [...]

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