What Kind Of Campaign Is McCain Running?
The sort of campaign in which a supporter can apparently yell, in response to the central question of McCain’s speech today — "who is the real Barack Obama" — "terrorist!" The sort in which a crowd responds to McCain’s portrayal of Obama as an alien outsider with a [...]
Nervous Days as Consumers Tighten Belts
Cowed by the financial crisis, American consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse before it gets better. In response to the falling value of their homes and high gasoline prices, Americans have become more frugal all year. But in recent [...]
Make-Believe Maverick A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
There is absolutely no summary possible for this Rolling Stones article. It has to be read to be believed…
And if you’re still on the fence about McCain’s character, check out [...]
Fannie Mae was founded as a government agency in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal to provide liquidity to the mortgage market. For the next thirty years, Fannie Mae held a virtual monopoly on the secondary mortgage market in the United States.
In 1968, to remove the activity of Fannie Mae from the [...]
So, let’s lighten it up a bit on Marble Festival Day.. Enough of this Mortgage Crisis talk. As advertised, the Shriners were out in force with their funny cars, as were a gajillion princesses, tow trucks, fire engines, and a particularly loud contingency of motorcycles. This year, there were two Christian Puppet floats. The High [...]
Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
This is the first time in the history of the United States that the president has sought to provoke a financial panic to get legislation through Congress. While this has proven to be a successful political strategy, it marks yet another [...]
It’s strange to have spent the last several years keeping up with what has seemed to me to be a corrupt Administration in Washington, and then to read about corruption in a place that has been so much a part of my life - the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. In the [...]
House Approves $700B Financial Rescue Package President Bush Signs Bill Into Law Same Afternoon
In a dramatic reversal, the House today approved by a comfortable margin a $700 billion financial rescue package that will bring the greatest intervention of the federal government into the private marketplace since the Great Depression, attempting to [...]
New York Times
Top Psychiatrist Failed to Report Drug Income
One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers between 2000 and 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of this income to his university, and violated federal research rules, according to documents provided to Congressional investigators. [...]