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A sucker . . . born every minute
First came the looting of savings and loans across the nation, which, by the standard of today’s economic failures, was a quaint little hold-up. It still gave us this delicious title: The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One by William K. Black. Have you heard of a better title for anything?…
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“K-e-a-t-i-n-g-5”
AP News Dispatch: McCain: Greed created Wall Street’s problems, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Filed at 12:52 p.m. ET TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain says Wall Street’s financial turmoil is the result of unchecked corporate greed.The Republican says government must protect the public from investment schemes too complex for people to understand…
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Prophet Ralph
On the morning of Monday, Nov. 1, 2004, the eve of voting for president that year, Ralph Nader held a Wall Street rally, at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets. In light of his notorious role in the 2000 general election, Nader’s 2004 run was controversial among Democrats and his audience on Wall Street…
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In jest, maybe
Alright, this piece by New Yorker magazine’s Hendrik Hertzberg is funny, I think: PALINOPSIA A neurologist friend, Dr. Richard Ransohoff, has drawn our attention to an early contribution to the suddenly burgeoning field of palinological studies. It is hoped that this paper, published, in 1989, in the Swiss-based journalEuropean Neurology (Vol. 29, No. 6) may…
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Hollow man
John McCain, King of Lies If, unlike me, you don’t believe John McCain is a bad man, you have to be saddened by what has become of his campaign for the presidency. McCain, at least at one time, gave lip service to high ideals and some principles. He talked about decency. But that was then,…
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Sound economic fundamentals
(Photo: Mark Lennihan/Associated Press A figure in the window at Lehman Brothers headquarters in New York on Monday) You get far away enough from a disaster and you don’t remember what it was like. In our case, the Depression was so long ago that it’s hard to imagine that we are in one. Except this…
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Vendettas and cronyism
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes (Photo: Heath Family, via Associated Press) The Wasilla City Council, with Sarah Palin, the future governor and vice-presidential nominee, at the center, in a 1998 photograph. Throughout her career, Ms. Palin has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and blurred the line between government and personal…
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The Double Standard of Red or Blue
The Central Virginia Progressive-The DAVISReport sent us this message: Received part of this from a friend, Something to think about… If you are a minority and you are selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you’re a “token hire.” If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates, you’re…
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Now this is more like it!
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton today released the following statement: “We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern Presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office he…
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Sarah Palin: Foreign Policy Heavyweight
I take back everything I ever said about Gov.Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience. It turns out that Palin is, indeed, a world traveler. We already knew that Palin visited Kuwait to visit members of the Alaska National Guard. We already knew that she visited Ireland on her way to Kuwait. (Okay, it wasn’t…