In September of 2008, the Federal government orchestrated an $85 billion bailout of the insurance company American International Group, better known as AIG. The move was part of an effort to shore up the faltering financial sector. At the time, conservatives blasted the bailout as an expensive, foolish, and meddling experiment to “fix” the economy. [...]

With the 2008 election cycle in full swing, it’s hard to turn on the television or open a newspaper without finding liberal politicians, professors, pop stars, and pundits blaming the world’s problems on America’s free enterprise system, its democratic tradition, and its core values of individualism and self-reliance. But how sincere are they about their [...]

From Denver Post DNC host officials short on cash The committee for the Democratic convention considers cuts in light of the fundraising shortfall. Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts. Committee sources say they are [...]

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.” — Hillary Clinton (Story here) “A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s [...]

Last year when the race began to become “important” during the primary season, the Democratic National Committee declared that the delegates from Florida and Michigan would not be seated at the convention in Denver, due to those states defying the party leadership by moving their primary dates. At the time all major democratic contenders publicly [...]

When will Obama and Hillary tell them to remove this attack ad that shows US troops being killed?

Hillary is attacking John McCain because although he asked the North Carolina GOP to stop running ads against Obama, they are still running them. McCain has a history of telling organizations to refrain from running attack ads, and has had success in getting some of them pulled. But Hillary, and in fact Howard Dean, both [...]

The votes have been counted in Pennsylvania and Barack Obama is feeling the heat from the furnace of desperation. He lost yet another “big” state to Hillary Clinton, but it is worse than just losing a state primary. Exit polling revealed that a scant 12% of voters were in the age range of 18 to [...]

I mentioned an article about the oil prices in another post. I went back to digg the article at The Hill and found that it had been dugg and that there were some comments. I found one idea very intersting. If I were the president (God Forbid-LOL !) I would do the following. Immediately sign [...]

This week the Congress held committee briefings with General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The briefings were the first since last September, when the General and Ambassador first reported of the successes of the troop surge. This briefing contained more good news from Iraq. The two men reported that the violence in Iraq has [...]