Barney Frank Wants To Raise Taxes, Cut Military Spending By 25%, And ‘Spread The Wealth’

SouthCoastToday After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday. In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., [...]

Ohio: Bush Orders Justice Dept To Investigate Voter Fraud

From Public Record In a déjà vu moment from Campaign 2006, President George W. Bush again is asking his Attorney General to launch an investigation into the registration of hundreds of thousands of new voters, many of whom are expected to vote Democratic. Bush forwarded to Attorney General Michael Mukasey a Republican request that he [...]

US/Iraq Troop Withdrawal Plans Almost A Done Deal

Breitbart A deal governing the long-term presence of US troops in Iraq beyond the end of 2008 is more or less done, and any changes would be merely fine-tuning, the White House said Wednesday…. The draft deal calls for a withdrawal of US combat forces from Iraq by the end of 2011 and includes US [...]

Condi Rice: Close To Nuclear Deal With India

CNN U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that a deal lifting a ban on nuclear trade with India would be signed shortly. “The president will sign the agreement very soon,” she said. The signing had earlier been postponed because of administrative matters. “Let me be clear, the 123 agreement is done, it’s just [...]

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Reverse Auctions in Bail out – designed to not screw taxpayer?

Reverse Auction Design – will it be in the final bill? With over 100,000 individual designed  mortgage-related securities, obligations, and other instruments outstanding, further divided  by multiple rated tranches, auctions to price each piece are not workable.  But the Mortgage Bailout Bill depends on price discovery via auction – and as far as I can [...]

McCain “Votes With Bush 95% Of The Time” Myth Debunked.

From Politically Drunk On Power First, on a lighter note, let me state that it is 100% impossible for John McCain to have voted with President Bush, after all the President has no voting powers in the Senate. But that’s just a laughable technicality. In reality, however, the problem with the McCain/Bush voting argument and [...]

Gore Lays Down Challenge… Carbon Free In 10 Years!

I Love This Guy.   Basically, if the US makes the conversion to 100% carbon free electricity generation, it solves all our nations problems… The economy, the environment and national security…  and you know what?  He is most probably right.