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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 [...]

Obama vs McCain vs Bush: Gov’t Property Energy Policy

Today WaPo reports that Senator John McCain unveiled two components of his energy plan yesterday in Santa Barbara, California.
“[...] , McCain (R-Ariz.) vowed to “put the purchasing power of the United States government on the side of green technology” by buying fuel-efficient vehicles for its civilian fleet of cars and trucks and by retrofitting federal [...]

Enhanced Interrogation Methods? No, The Word Is “Torture”

I am sick to death of all the pussyfooting around the subject that has occupied the media for the duration of this premeditated, illegal war of terror that we the people of the United States have allowed to be waged against the people of Iraq, in our name, for the last several years.

No matter how [...]