So, our government now owns a 79.9% share in AIG, the insurance company, after spending $85 billion of our tax dollars to bail it out of bankruptcy. This comes less than a month after the government siezed mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and on the heels of deciding not to save Lehman Brothers. Six months ago, the feds spent  $29 ( Read more... )

Our neighbors directly across the street are clearly conservatives... NRA stickers on their vehicles and so forth. One of the girls just glares at Kate and me whenever she sees us. The day I melted our jumper cables trying to start my truck, she sat in her SUV watching us, laughing. I got the impression she was rather hoping we might burst into ( Read more... )

So, when Karl Rove is quoted as saying McCain has "gone too far" in his negative campaigning, you know things are really bad.  On Fox News Sunday, Rove said that, "McCain has gone in his ads one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test."

Obama's campaing isn't guiltless of ( Read more... )

From CNN:

"The White House on Monday predicted a record deficit of $490 billion for the 2009 budget year, a senior government official told CNN....President Bush inherited a budget surplus of $128 billion when he took office in 2001 but has since posted a budget deficit every year....The Bush administration has spent heavily on the wars in Iraq and ( Read more... )