October 7, 2008 - John McCain has taken off the gloves. And not just because it's easier to take his pills that way. He played the Bill Ayers card, and so the Obama campaign has countered with the Charles Keating card, creating a website, complete with a 13 m...
September 22, 2008 - We're not economists, but according to our calculation, Wall Street is about to be swallowed up by a sinkhole. What can you do to protect your investments? Wait, you have investments? You're our most elite reader!
Normally, in times of such confusi...
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September 8, 2008 - This morning, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the federal government will bail out the mortgage giants, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Those of you who still have a roof over your heads are probably hoping this is one of those news sto...
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August 21, 2008 - Hillary Clinton is reportedly assembling a "Whip Team" to quell any anti-Obama demonstrations among her supporters during the DNC. But why? What could her supporters possibly do to...
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August 13, 2008 - How do you know when a new social networking technology is no longer cool? One way: when House Republican leader John Boehner starts doing it. The House GOP members have been using Twitter as part of what they call an...
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August 11, 2008 - Hearkening back to the 1980s, Russia proved yet again that it has a small penis by unleashing a military fusillade against Chechnya Georgia. According to Russian president...
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August 8, 2008 - Both Barack Obama and John McCain have employed "bundlers" to wrangle donations to their campaigns, but McCain seems to have elevated the act of bundling to an art form...
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July 28, 2008 - Shattering our long-held belief that the Bush Justice Department was completely independent of politics, a report released on Monday (from the same Justice Department) indicates otherwiselow-level staffers, led by M...
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July 11, 2008 - Perhaps no industry has been hit harder by our country's "mental recession" than the mortgage banks, and two in particular, Fannie Mae and...
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July 8, 2008 - The 34th annual G-8 summit began Monday in Japanthe last time President George Bush will either hobnob with or inappropriately massage the world's foremos...
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July 2, 2008 - In 2002, when the Guantanamo Bay detention camp opened, the U.S. was in need of some guidance on just how to torture interrogate the throngs of suspected terrorists. Rather than reading up on current interrogation techniques...
June 26, 2008 - With very few no foreign policy achievements in nearly eight years in office and the clock running out, President Bush announced that North Korea has been kicked...
June 23, 2008 - The Zimbabwe presidential "election" has taken a turn for the worse as challenger Morgan Tsvangirai announced over the weekend that he's not going to par...
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