Archive for: November 2008

… based on rigid, out-moded social mores, the kind of businesses that the Left feels don’t pay their fair shareCHICAGO — Dave Tiderman wondered if the decimal point was in the wrong place when he opened his …

The CRA should be abolished, along with the government-sponsored enterprises that fueled the secondary market for subprimes — under pressure from Clinton, who ordered HUD to set quotas for “affirmative action” lending at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But powerful …

Well, if you’re Jon Swift, it’s pretty much a pretext for jackassery, because obviously the trampling to death of the Wal-Mart worker on Long Island is the result of 8 years of failed Bush policies.

What a funny, edgy guy.

Inter-departmental communication is still prone to snafus in ChiComLand:
China on Friday executed a man convicted of spying for Taiwan a day after notifying his relatives through diplomatic channels that they would have a second chance to visit him, his …

NYTimes columnist, Charles Blow, looks at the passage of California’s Prop 8 and takes the opportunity to slam those intolerant black women who attend church Blacks are much more likely than whites to attend church, according to a Gallup …

Baader Meinhof: just as principled as the Weather Underground.

NYT: White capitalists to blame for Wal-Mart trampling death

Al Jazeera on Root Causes:

While India awaits the outcome of the criminal investigation in the aftermath of the attacks, some analysts …

Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as “The Incredible …

Kim Zigfeld at PJM:
Russia’s lies about what happened on the ground during the war give its game away, and its behavior after the war ended put the final nails in its coffin of deceit. When, for instance, a leading Russian …

losing steam.  More.

Sea turtles killed by cold snap.

by Shell Oil.

(h/t Hot Air Headlines)