Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Former Merrill Lynch Exec takes bailout money to buy palatial digs

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scarce, Video Cafe : I don't, as a rule, get surprised by the utter gall of these Wall Street executives, or the complete farce of how t...

Divorce A Lot Harder After The Equity Is Gone

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Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars : I know several couples right now who would break up in a minute if they had any equity left : Chalk up anot...

Everything the EPA Never Wanted You To Know About Ash Toxins

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Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars : Well, my goodness. It looks as though the people in the path of that massive ash spill are going to be, um,...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle East Crisis Escalates

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ThinkProgress.org : In an effort to “ prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel” with rockets, Israel today undertook i...

Ex-Aides: Bush Never Recovered From Katrina

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Associated Press - HuffingtonPost.com : Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from u...

Bernie's Cash Stash: Offshore Loot Sought

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Laura Italiano , New York Post : Investigators believe that Bernard Madoff has stuffed hundreds of millions of dollars in Ponzi profits int...

Palin's daughter gives birth to son named Tripp

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Associated Press, Yahoo News : The daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, a magazine reported ...

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. (UPDATED)

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Andrew Osborn , The Wall Street Journal : For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010....

"Please don't divorce...": Courage Campaign community photo project

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Courage Campaign website : Infamous prosecutor Ken Starr has filed a legal brief -- on behalf of the "Yes on 8" campaign -- to nul...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

25% of Retailers May Go Bankrupt

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Henry Blodget , Silicon Alley Insider : Retailing has always been a tough business. Now it's a brutal business. Some observers now pred...

Beltway Bozos: FDR's New Deal Made Great Depression Worse

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Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars : Oh, to live in that happy place where Fox News resides: where the sun shone out of Ronald Reagan's behi...

The Noose Tightens: Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and other top Bush officials could soon face legal jeopardy.

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Jonathan Tepperman , Newsweek : The United States, like many countries, has a bad habit of committing wartime excesses and an even worse re...