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Bye Fannie, See Ya Freddie: Should the Rest of Us Get Ready to Kiss Our Butts Goodbye?

On my personal ranking of the news events of the past 100 years, the top three stories are (1) Hiroshima/Nagasaki; (2) The tearing down of the Berlin Wall; and (3) The current forcing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into federal conservatorship.
The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Fannie and Freddie are “too big to [...]

More On The Long Shot VP Selection

I’ll continue the concept of Pamela’s excellent article with another long shot possibility that may have been made by Barack Obama. I agree with Pamela that all this smoke may be a screen for another VP pick. With that as a basis I’ll bring another name to the list. A name I know very well.
Wes [...]

Lawmakers Fume Over Gas Prices

From MSNBC today… Lawmakers on The Hill are fuming over gas prices:

We hear a lot of grumbling but when is someone going to do something concrete and turn this mess around? Money is pouring out of people’s pockets and into their gas tanks and the price of everything else is rising due to the gas [...]