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No cash for trash

No to Taxpayer Funded Bailout: Join the Coalition Let the market decide, Americans have paid enough Santa Cruz, CA –  ­ With over 1,000 signatures within 24 hours of its launch, NoCashforTrash.org <http://nocashfortrash.org/> is a new website geared as a coalition to ³stop the taxpayer-funded bailouts.² By linking to numerous organizations and politicians in opposition [...]

Brother, can you spare $700-billion?

We’ve seen welfare reform for individuals.  Now we need welfare reform for corporations.  The big boys are lining up with their tin cups outstreatched. The $700-billion dollar bailout is only the beginning.  I don’t know whether to call this socialism or facism, but our early 20th century ancestors would recognize it.  The government is here [...]

The federal power grab

Early in his administration, I said that George W. Bush reminded me of President Nixon more than anyone else.  Not the paranoid Nixon of Watergate, but the big government Republican Nixon. Now we see President Bush and the national government making a grab for a huge amount of power – the bailout of the financial [...]

A howl from Howard

As I’ve written, Howard Dean insists on emailing this stuff to me Dear Juan — John McCain is running the sleaziest and most negative presidential campaign we’ve ever seen — his campaign is setting new lows with their lies and desperate personal attacks. Even Karl Rove, the mastermind of George W. Bush’s slash and burn [...]

Barack on the way

In the wake of John McCain’s campaign appearance here in Jacksonville yesterday, Barack Obama announced he’s coming to town, too. McCain was scheduled to appear at an F.O.P. pancake breakfast and handed out tickets.  There was such a demand, they moved the event to the Jacksonville Memorial Arena, which seemed to be about half full. [...]