Bank of America Bought Chris Dodd

The mortgage bail-out bill pending in the Senate, the so-called, Dodd-Shelby mortgage-lender bailout bill was written by the its chief beneficiary, Bank of America.  BOA paid the bill’s co-sponsor to push their bill.  Stephen Spruiell, National Review has both the

• Billy passes along a list of articles from Investor’s Busienss Daily, thirty in all inclduing a couple I’ve linked previously. It’s a must read, if you really want the unspun facts.
• Bruce talks here about the Politics of Drilling.

Charles Krauthammer explains the problem with John McCain’s energy policy and with Barack Obama’s entire campaign, Washington Post::

Alas, McCain’s proposed reform is only partial. Still better than Obama, however, who refuses to deviate from liberal orthodoxy. But that

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

• Interesting post over at OTB on the finding of a possible cause for homosexuality. this raises all the poits I raised as  far back as 1998, as you’ll see in the comments, there.  Oh, they’re apparently getting very close indeed

Found this while digging around in my archive tapes for something else, dated 2001. Source at the moment is unknown.  I only managed to get part if the file back off the tape.

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ABC’s Political Punch this morning:

In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system,

Congressman Maurice Hinchey(D-NY), want to natinnalize domeestic oil refineries(industry?), via Beldar Blog:

So if there’s any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then

The left side of the ‘shepere is all over the story of Larry Sinclair being arrested following his apearence at the National Press Club, yesterday. Blogger News Network says:

Larry Sinclair-the gay man who’s accused Senator Barack Obama of sharing

OK, here’s story number one, by way of Michelle:

(06-17) 19:07 PDT TURLOCK (STANISLAUS COUNTY) — The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son

Fox News:

For the second day in a row, gas prices nation wide have ticked down. The decrease isn’t much, but it’s enough to give motorists hope that more could be on the horizon.

The average per-gallon price stands at

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse, whose legs were insured for a million dollars in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her agent said. She was 87.

Scott

• One of these days I’ve really gotta send Gaius over at Blue Crab Blvd a six-pack, just on G.P.. (Do beings that walk sideways drink beer? OK, dumb question. Depends how much they’ve had. Gotcha.)  The guy’s out there slugging

Just how stupid is Barack “BO” Obama?, via John Brody, Brody FilesL

“This is unfortunately become a habit in our politics where anything’s fair game, and we just make things up about people. If you think about Michelle, I mean

So, President Bush has now joined John McCain’s call to eliminate the federal ban on offshore oil drilling. He’s even asked Congress to do so. This strikes me as a smart move, both in the political world, and the