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This morning, thirteen years and thirteen hours to the day after an all-black jury in Los Angeles acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering his wife and her friend, an all-white jury in Las Vegas convicted him on all 12 counts of conspiracy, kidnapping, burglary, robbery and assault, which he committed at gunpoint on September 13, 2007. How’s that for… Read more.
Evidently, for those who voted against this bailout bill just days ago, putting lipstick on a pig can be quite appealing. Because all it took for them to compromise their born-again fiscal virtue were billions of dollars in pork-barrel spending that have been larded onto this $700 billion bill. This includes new earmarks for a… Read more.
It really should surprise no one that Republican Sarah Palin surpassed expectations in her vice presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden last night. After all, her poor performances in recent interviews had influential members of her own party calling on her to withdraw from the ticket – not only to spare herself further embarrassment but… Read more.
It’s time that normal Joe Six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency (sic). This was Gov. Sarah Palin’s folksy attempt to justify her inability to speak intelligently in recent interviews about anything except hunting moose and drilling oil pits. But this populist spin is patent nonsense. Because any normal Joe Six-pack would… Read more.
At this hour, even rabidly partisan forces in Washington are conspiring to find a bi-partisan way to rescue the bailout bill they torpedoed on Monday. But all they’re doing is framing it as a bailout for Main Street, proclaiming that they’re acting now to prevent the meltdown on Wall Street from burning folks on Main Street. Specifically, their concern is no longer about this bailout providing golden parachutes for fat cats on… Read more.
