Like many members of Congress, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been a fierce critic of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, blaming the government-backed loan programs for excesses that helped create the financial meltdown in 2008 ( Read more... )

Today's Washington Post has an article about how poor people pay more for the basics. You have to be rich to be poor. . . . The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't often explain. The part of the article I've so far read* has ( Read more... )