My local CNN Radio (WOIC, Columbia SC) had a commentator who was worried about a loss of our freedoms. His argument was that we worked all these years for women to get control of their bodies, but the way the current healthcare bill looks, both women and men would lose that control.

This was CNN, not Fox. It startled me.

Spending in the House-Senate Conference Report of the Stimulus Bill per the National Taxpayers Union, with my comments in parentheses. ( long )

We all know where the economy went wrong by now. Conservatives can argue that the incentives for giving home loans to people who could never make the payments were put in place under the Clinton administration. Liberals can argue that these sub-prime lending practices continued, and even increased, during the Bush administration. Everyone agrees ( Read more... )

I'm not going to be watching the inauguration (I have to work). I will be watching what Obama does next, though. Here, George Friedman of Stratfor does a timely analysis, which I am copying with permission ( Read more... )

I'm grateful we had a clear winner this presidential election, and that there was no long-drawn out, let-the-courts-decide ending to all this ( Read more... )

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Nobody wins the presidency just because they get the most popular votes. What matters are races in certain key states on election day ( Read more... )

Check out Section 113 of the bailout bill, titled "Minimization of long-term costs and maximization of benefits for taxpayers." This is the section that Congress haggled into the bill to ensure a payoff, via warrants, for citizens if mortgages purchased from banks are later sold for a profit.... (B)ank lobbyists snookered the government by sneaking ( Read more... )

The bill that just passed the senate was 450 pages long.

The pork started on page four...I just hope they got rid of "mark to market" law and raised the limit on FDIC insurance as they said they would. Not that the FDIC has spent a DIME on any of this. (Not that they HAVE a dime...) ( Read more... )

100 Democrats and most Republicans said no to the $700B bailout ( Read more... )