A.I.G. Burning Through Bailout Loan
The American International Group is burning through its $123 billion bailout loan quickly. According to Edward Liddy, the man brought in to restructure the company, it may soon need to ask...
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Government Will Bail Out Homeowners
First Wall Street bankers. Then government lending agencies known as Fannie and Freddie. Next in line for federal handouts was the international insurance company A.I.G. It begins to look as though...
From Henry Morgenthau to Henry Paulson
The circumstances of today's $700 billion bailout are eerily similar to those of FDR's New Deal, and today's Pied Pipers are playing the same bipartisan, power-grabbing tune. ...
Bedrock of the Constitution
Understanding how the Constitution was based on the Declaration of Independence provides the knowledge needed to defend our God-given rights. ...
Barack Obama and the Citizenship Scandal
It has been alleged that presidential aspirant Barack Obama is ineligible to become president because, it is claimed, he was not born in the United States, but rather born in Kenya...
The Roots of ACORN
The hard-left activist group ACORN has been getting its day in the sun during the last few weeks, but probably not in a way it would have preferred. ACORN, which is...
Saul Alinsky: A Radical Who Matters
Saul Alinsky, who died 36 years ago and is only dimly known today, has had a major impact on the 2008 presidential election from the grave. He is a radical who...
Mental-health Parity’s Poison Pill
ITEM: The New York Times for October 6 reported: "More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that,...
Obama’s Terrorist Ties and Radical Roots
One of the signature songs of the 1960s political radicalism was Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a'Changin'," which JibJab video productions has used as a theme for an online video...
Obama on “Redistributive Change”
Back in 2001, when Barack Obama was a second-term Illinois state senator, he was interviewed for the Odyssey program on Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ 91.5 FM. A significant excerpt from that...
The Media Coronation of Barack Obama
"Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win." That is the headline of an October 22 story released by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press regarding...
Companies Line Up for Bailout Bucks
With the federal government doling out $700 billion of Americans' hard-earned money under the new bank bailout law, a sizeable list of companies is competing fiercely for a share— and it...
Bush Pushes Foreign Aid, Despite Economic Woes
Hosting the White House Summit on International Development on October 21, President George W. Bush called on Americans to continue funding foreign-aid programs, saying it would be "a serious mistake" to...
Fed Will Pump Another $540 Billion Into Economy
In its latest desperate move to head off the inevitable recession, the Federal Reserve announced Tuesday the creation of another new facility, the Money Market Investor Funding Facility, which will provide...
Hawaiian Healthcare Holdup
Seven months after instituting the only state child universal healthcare program in the country, Hawaii is dropping the plan. According to an AP article, the state could no longer afford the...