Interview With Sarah Palin by Human Events 12/22/2008 GIZZI: What was the biggest mistake made in the ’08 campaign? PALIN: The biggest mistake made was that I could have called more shots on this: the opportunities that were not seized to speak to more Americans via media. I was not allowed to do very many interviews, […]
Barack Obama‘s report on their contacts with Governor Blagojevich.
During the Bush Campaigns and reign, we’ve heard a lot of talk about values – family values, traditional values, values voters – mostly from the Religious Right. But over the more recent past, George Lakoff, a Cognitive Scientist has introduced concepts into the political dialog that have a different take on values – concepts used […]
The Price Of Their Security By Eugene Robinson December 23, 2008 Understanding isn’t the same as forgiving. The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand why they acted with such contempt for our Constitution and our values — but also reinforce my confident belief, and my […]
The Fairfield Greenwich Group is a Fund of Funds [a Fund made up of a number of Hedge Funds], one of Bernard Madoff Investment Fund’s biggest customers/sellers/victims/perpetrators. Unfortunately, this is all their web site has on it right now: An Important Notice from Fairfield Greenwich Group December 16, 2008 To Our Investors: We have had […]
SEC Whistleblower Speaks on Madoff Fraud by: Matt Renner, t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t Monday 22 December 2008 After the revelation of a massive fraud scheme, a former government investigator has accused government law enforcement officials of repeatedly turning a blind eye to Wall Street crime and, in doing so, allowing the foundational trust of the global financial system […]
Life Without Bubbles By PAUL KRUGMAN Whatever the new administration does, we’re in for months, perhaps even a year, of economic hell. After that, things should get better, as President Obama’s stimulus plan — O.K., I’m told that the politically correct term is now “economic recovery plan” — begins to gain traction. Late next year […]
ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and "This Week" Host George StephanopoulosExclusive: Obama’s Blago Report: Only One Rahm Call to GovernorDecember 21, 2008 Sources tell me that the Obama team’s review of contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show that Rahm Emanuel had only one phone conversation with Blagojevich. The contact, described as a "pro-forma" […]
My wish to transcend the effect of the last eight years on my psyche wasn’t going as well as I had hoped earlier today. I believe that Barack Obama sincerely wants to heal the divisions of this period that continue to plague us, particularly at this time when we desperately need to unite. I expected […]