Maggie's Farm

What's driving down stock prices? The Hedge Fund Contagion. They are puking everything to cover redemptions - and to shut down. High gain - high risk. That's the game.

Economist: Obama's socialism will wreck the economy. But that's the whole idea, isn't it? To bring down free markets and put politicians in control?

Greenspan's testimony yesterday.

With luck, the abominable Murtha may go down this year.

NYT debt drops to junk. They blame the economy.

Do you feel an attack of "non-filer syndrome" coming on? As I recall, NYC Mayor David Dinkins had a bad case of that affliction.

William Ayers: A media effort to hide the truth fails, thanks to blogger Patterico. But don't expect to read about it in the LAT. Related: Ayers was back at his bomb throwing as recently as 2006. Can anybody name one decent friend of Obama?

The quaint Dutch Death Boat. Holland: famous for tulips and death for young and old.

McCain outlines his presidential goals. It's about time.

The myth that laissez-faire is responsible for our problems: Reisman. It's a good essay, but provides no populist boob bait.

More on Dems wanting to eliminate 401-Ks. Would they dare?

What's up with this Obama fundraising? I see that both John Galt and Adolph Hitler have given money. When I gave money to McCain, I had to fill out a form. Much more from Ace. I feel like the whole country is in the middle of a giant con game.

The always-grandiose Obama claims a "righteous wind." Good grief. I cannot believe how self-referential this guy is. I guess he refers to God's banking and credit crisis that, thus far, pulled him up out of a hole.

More on intelligence and pattern-detection. AVI

Academic termites set the stage for Obama. Memo to self: never take political opinions from people who have never worked in the real world.

Speaking of the naive and innocent, why young folks should shun Obama, from Viking:

In a letter to young voters, Robert Samuelson writes that everybody's taxes will be heading skyward soon enough: "You'll pay Social Security and Medicare for aging baby boomers. The needed federal tax increase might total 50 percent over the next 25 years. Pension and health costs for state and local workers have doubtlessly been underestimated. There's the expense of decaying infrastructure -- roads, bridges, water pipes. All this will squeeze other crucial government services: education, defense, police." But those taxes will only be paid by the rich...until they won't.

Re Palin, via Surber:

It’s Lord of the Flies time for the media. She made the mistake of being different. I have not seen such a mass blind rage by the media since Clarence Thomas was “electronically lynched” by the press. Liberal racism was apparent then. Now it is liberal chauvinism. All women must be dowdy, angry libs who are fierce defenders of abortion rites — or else they aren’t real women.

"Rites"? That's clever. I prefer ladies who like to look good. I try to look good, too, on the off-chance that some gal will like me.

Karl Marx was black? Who knew?

Has the banking crisis affected the non-financial economy? Supply and Demand

Face to face with the "insurgency" BBC

Dems attempting to sell the idea of wage stagnation

Kurtz with facts about the media bias

Suddenly everybody wants the Joe vote

"Maybe Rush should try to blow up the Capitol and the Pentagon. Then instead of being a terrorist, liberals would call him an education reformer."

"If you run a business with more than a very few employees, if Barack Obama wins your life is going to get much more complicated long about March next year." More at Moonbattery.

A clueless Obama caller. Can we "pluralize" this example? Related: Why I am voting for Obama

The evidence for AGW continues to unravel. But will it matter?

Sarah's clothing and hairdressing budget. Funny, we never hear the cost of Obama's tailored suitings, and never heard about Hillary's silk pantsuit, Botox, face-lift, make-up, and hair-do budget. Nor about Joe Biden's Botox budget (which appears to be high).

Home sales: The 10 fastest-selling zip codes

Metrics looking good for Obama. It amazes me.

WSJ: Get ready for the New New Deal.

We are an ungrateful nation.

Germaine Greer and a bit of "magnificence" from the 1960s. Good grief. They thought this was quite arty.

What can be done about campus decline? Kimball

Sea turtles in Cyprus. I didn't know the Med had sea turtles.

The rise of "disaster socialism." Reason

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

America's most overrated product: The Bachelor's Degree. h/t, Viking

Congress will look at Fannie and Freddie - after the election

Obama cannot change the lives of black Americans

Somebody told me Iceland was a hedge fund, not a country. I guess so.

Two faces of Socialism: RFK and Obama

The most ancient dog

What kind of diapers are the greenest? And who cares?

Campaign finance reform is dead, and Obama killed it. He's up to $600 million now.

18 things you need for your computer. I do not understand this stuff.

Anna Schwartz: The feds are fighting the last war

America the Weak. Ralph Peters

Lord Monckton's letter to John McCain

Obama's taxes target small businesses, which is why Joe the Plumber made people pay attention

Biden: The world will test Obama. You betcha it will, to find out whether there is any testosterone in that fancy suit.

Is it paranoid to be concerned about this?

The Obama Social Security plan. Mankiw

Dems want to eliminate 401-Ks

Ayers: An embarassment

From a long non-rant by Villainous on The Politics of Fear: "It's incredible what the media can ignore when they want to." I like what she says about "pluralize." 

Toon on top from Theo. Photo from No Pasaran

Why do I think the support of people like Powell and Warren Buffet is helpful to Obama? It's helpful because these sober establishment folks are saying that he's not a bomb-throwing radical. Me? I doubt that any Repub would have an easy time defeating any Dem this year, and I think Hillary would be doing even better than Obama in the polls. It's the economy combined with Bush fatigue, even without the Obama Cult of Personality. Still, I dread the effects of an Obama-Reid-Pelosi triumvirate on America (and on my personal plans and goals). But that's because

Undecided? Then you're a racist, says Joe Biden. Or just a moron, says a Princeton prof. "Sticks and stones..."

The San Diego Union-Trib's endorsement of McCain

Taxing the uninsured. Mankiw

The world's oldest operating bank.

A Harvard trial lawyer for McCain. Am Thinker

Sarah Palin has the highest National Security rating of all 4 candidates

Gaping holes in Obama's record. But who cares?

Phony Joe the Plumber robocalls. These people are playing for keeps.

Eric at Classical Values:

If Team Obama happened to drive down my street, I probably wouldn't want to get caught asking Barack Obama any tough questions because of the consequences.

Well then, suppose I were to ask a question about my inability to ask a question? Something like this:

Senator Obama, if I were to ask you a tough question, why would my personal lifestyle be considered more worthy of investigation than yours?

Nah, I'd better not ask.

Wouldn't want to be subject to an investigation.

Related: Who hired detectives to attack Cindy McCain? As far as I know, nobody tried to track down Obama's coke and pot dealers.

Look at this Obama rally in St. Louis. Good grief. Even Sarah can't draw like that. This is rock star stuff. Reality will set in sooner or later.

Obama's Brave New Deal

Ayers and Obama: Destroyers of schools. Dr. Sanity

The Dems' plan to bring back the Fairness Doctrine

The takers in society will never be happy. By definition, they will always want more from their neighbor.

Kling on the banking crisis. A quote:

The claim that this crisis was caused by "deregulation" is a claim that government needs to exercise more power. Right now, that is the conventional wisdom of the establishment. There is no mainstream newspaper or politician raising any doubts about the wisdom of increasing government power. The free market is now a fringe phenomenon, and those of us who support it are irrelevant.

Capitalism is moral. Communism is not. Cafe Hayek

I have an early morning hunt in woodchuck country, so I will leave these:

"Festishism puts the kibosh on an upsurge"? Is that English? Or Eskimo?

Speaking of Eskimo, how is a Palin t-shirt racist? Sheesh. She married an Eskimo, for heaven's sake.

Beware of asking Obama a difficult question. They will rip your head off. More on the Army of Joes, at Jules. I am a Joe.

Proof of fraudulent votes. Ace has a skull in flames.

Selling soap, and creating fear. New, improved FEAR!!! Fear sells!!!!

Where Caligula bought the farm.

Call me when it's ready. Chicken-fried Chicken. I want mashed potatoes on the side, and biscuits. Nothing green, please. Do I look like a rabbit?

David Brooks has an Obama wet dream. What is it with these straight guys and Obama?

The Eve of Destruction. Not yet. Man, that was an idiotic song.

I cannot keep up with MSM lies and keep my new job and pay my taxes at the same time. Thanks to Confed Yank, here and here.

Why so many conservatives have to be from Wasilla

It's the Iranian caviar that gets me

McCain roasts Obama at the Al Smith Dinner in NYC last night (h/t, Tiger). Amusing and good, as McCain tends to be (even if he cannot pronounce Zoroastrian. But who cares? Obama says "The Reverend Wright married Michelle and I..."):

A short history of modern finance. Excellent.

An area of the economy which is booming

Kofi Annan lends support to Obama. As did Castro, Chavez, Putin...

Does military service matter any more in politics?

The FBI is investigating ACORN

The FBI is investigating Rep Mahoney

Details on the Canadian election

A Liberal supermajority? Rick Moran says forget about McCain and fight for the filibuster in the Senate. I think you have to fight to the finish. Related, click to biggify this.

HT may be good for womens' brains

More comic relief from Roger. A real quote from Ayers' defenders:

It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans.

"Passionately"? How about "criminally and sociopathically, with no regard for human life or property"?

As Obama tries on his Teflon suit and tries to run out the clock while McCain-Palin nips at his heels, it brought to mind the ZZ Top tune. Sheesh, are we really going to elect a GQ Ivy league twit who has never done anything in his life, much less anything masculine? Curtis said it on the radio this morning: "He's The Candy Man. The candy man can..."

Contrapposto: How to stand like a studly fellow. (See image on right) h/t, Vanderleun

Jay Nordlinger has some great points re the debate. My view: John McCain doesn't think like a lawyer. He doesn't have that calculating thing going.

Karl Rove has some grim news for Repubs

Never, ever, have sex on the beach in Dubai. It's just not worth it.

If that ship isn't a floating nuclear weapon, then what is it?

The hottest sex scandal you never heard about

The coldest Arctic you never heard about. h/t, Tiger

Creepy, from Obama:

"If voters are … polarized and if they’re seeing two different realities, a Sean Hannity reality and a Keith Olbermann reality, then we’re not going to be able to get done the work we need to get done.”

Best for the greater good to just shut down us voices of freedom.

Palin rumors that won't go away. Rumors are scary things.

Going-out-of-business art sales

A little commentary on pop culture

Kos: We don't want to win. We want to crush their spirits. Nice. Who are these juveniles?

From a banker friend: "If we get more banking regs here we will drive the entire world banking industry from New York to London, Dubai, and Hong Kong."

Mark Halperin grades the final debate. Time

Paul at Powerline watched it too.

National (single-payer) Lawn Care: An Immigration Solution

Is "non-partisan" ACORN working for Obama? They even say they are. That's our tax dollars. Here's the Mickey Mouse registration. These people are shameless.

Why government health care won't reduce employers' costs

Jesse ("Hymietown") Jackson: Obama will get the "Zionists" out of government. More: Time for the Jews to move aside. The Jews are the problem, aren't they? Surely not the dysfunctional, self-destructive and hate-filled Palestinians.

Obama's already in an 8th Grade textbook. That's "audacity."

Obama funneled money to Afrocentric anti-American extremists. Well I'll be doggoned. Related: How Obama sold out education to "the Revolution."

Shelby Steele on minority groupthink

Here's a guy I would vote for.

Did Bill Ayers ghostwrite Obama's books?

WaPo: McCain is a right-wing extremist. I wish.

For McCain, it's the times, not the man. Same thing for Obama, I think.

The amazing holocaust love story

Somebody who won't be down for breakfast this morning.

Top US tourist traps. They tend to be in desolate places, far from other public bathrooms.

The fear and panic industry. Aka the news.

Atlanta cops can't find honest recruits

The criminalization of business judgement. Tiger

The scandal of social work education

Michelle Obama: "I want your pie."

And speaking of the perennially-enraged Michelle Obama, the ugly, titillating, and salacious rumor mill grinds on with Obama's pedophile mentor and now Obama's special relationship. More here.

From Gates:

The capital explosion has created a large, distributable surplus. People who don’t want to work don’t have to. Equality-pushing, nonequal elites have found new ways to collect and redistribute this surplus in ways that satisfy their moral vanity while perpetuating their hold on power. When you rob Peter to pay Paul, Peter may successfully resist. But when you rob Peter to pay Paul, Pablo, Pavel, Panya, Bakhta and Boumedienne, the mobocratic features of democracy work decidedly for them and for the income redistributor, and against Peter.

Your Complete Guide to ACORN Fraud

S&M still thinks government is smarter. When will they ever learn that politicians are whores in suits?

How I lost my Obamamania. h/t, Theo

ACORN, Obama, Barney Frank, and Dodd are the real cause of the banking crisis. I do believe that. And it especially peeves me that so many of these "homeowners" were speculators with several houses, playing Monopoly during a bubble.

Harvard economists against Obama: Mankiw.  Krauthammer on Obama's associations.

A bankrupt California seeks a high-speed rail bond

Remember when banks used to give away toasters?

Unbreakable encryption

Iraq update: Things have changed

ACORN: A mockery of Democracy. Surber

Deepest fish caught on video. h/t, Gene Expression. I cannot figure out what they are doing.

Krugman, yes, Krugman - the NYT columnist everybody loves to hate. Marginal Rev has an appreciative post.

Obama should not relax just yet. And what's that about 40% of Americans paying no income tax? WTH? Everybody should chip in something if they want to be part of it.

It does seem that the Dow should be at 7000, because it's been a ten-year bubble from the trendline. Graph from Coyote, who explains. I am not inclined to own a stock unless the S&P drops to the 20-year trend: the odds of losing $ are too great. My tiny nest egg is in Vanguard bond funds until we see a serious correction.

I am more of a Nobama voter than a McCain enthusiast. However, I have learned that politics is usually selecting the lesser of two evils, and that political enthusiasms are a bit crazy anyhow. If I were an ardent Lefty, I would be voting for Obama with enthusiasm because I believe him to be a radical, America-hating Leftist who is smart enough to minimize that on the campaign trail. I am not an hysteric: everything about his life says that is true, and I have been steadily posting the evidence for that.

As Roger Kimball says,

“You’re beautiful, I love you, now change.” That is Team Obama’s message. “You’re beautiful, I love you as you are”: that is the message of McCain and Sarah Palin. It’s the difference between the utopian–who finds himself disgusted with every real-world polity, and who finds himself willing, indeed, eager, to sacrifice real people for the sake of the ideal ones he wishes to create–and the simple patriot who says Yes to the family, community, and country in which he finds himself.

Most Americans, I believe, love their country for what it is–not what it could become if suitably socialized, taxed, neutered, and otherwise recast. If McCain-Palin can effectively articulate that message, they will win.

Here's today's samples: Obama promises to give ACORN a role in shaping his agenda. Here's an ACORN election update - they are everywhere. Also, the Obama-Ayers ideas of educational reform. Ad, guess what? Sissy found a cat that was registered to vote.

Rezko sings. Rick Moran

Right Wing Prof sees McCain-Palin enthusiasm.

Government pension funds are in trouble.

Ohio's Barbie Snodgrass is skeptical about Obama's tax promises.

Subprime blow-up caused by Brett Favre signing with Jets, etc. Revealing graph.

via Never yet Melted, Steyn:

After ten minutes of Babes For Barack, I never want to meet a female woman of the opposite sex for the rest of my life.

School is open again in Baghdad.

Rays vs. Red Sox: Bad sportsmanship

Old poison bottle labels. h/t, Thompson's Friday Ephemera

The triumph of cultural Marxism in Sweden. Fjordman. Difficult to believe people go along with this BS. h/t, Gates of Vienna

Stocks still aren't cheap. Tiger

Mark Steyn is "allowed to write" in Canada. WTH?

Know what a high speed stall is?

Dems propose elimination of 401-K contributions. Related: The magic Obama tax cuts. How do you cut taxes for those who pay no taxes?

A brief banking history of the US

The light at the end of the crisis. Kudlow. The fear will subside. Forbes

The forgotten war. Jules

McCain's new ACORN ad. What does Obama know about the ACORN fraud? ACORN's criminal enterprise. Powerline

Related: Dems registering jailbirds

Does Obama have any non-Marxist friends?

Racism in every hiccup. Michelle

CEOs: Why Obama would be a disaster

The Republicans have no candidate? Driscoll

Lou Dobbs rightly blames Dems and ACORN for financial crisis. This toon via Dr. Sanity:

Toon via NE Repub:

Big election troubles in Ohio. Imagine if these were Repubs.

One in three men like smaller boobs

Honesty from the Left on Hispanic immigration. Heather Macdonald

Why the press hides Obama's lies. Roger Simon

How will the MA tax referendum go in Nov? Viking

House Dems aren't all left wingers

Camille Paglia appreciates Sarah Palin

VDH explains why he won't join the Obama crusade

Is ACORN stealing the election? IBD

So that's what community organizers do. Q&O

Soothing smoothie Obama beats foe at own Mcgame. Rich Lowry

Jimmy Carter re Brezhnev: "I can't believe he lied to me." I guess he never heard of liars.

The thundering incuriosity of the press about Obama's leftist background

Why politicians like cap and trade

Is this election a referendum on Obama? Sad to say, it probably is. Obama offers HOPE, CHANGE, and socialism. McCain offers...what? Ordinary decent, honest, moderate-conservative governance, I guess - which is not too exciting but which is all I ask for.

Hey, David Brooks. Flush that Manhattan condescension down the toilet.

Can McCain bounce back? Baehr at Am Thinker

News flash: the media backs Obama. I still wonder why. What do they want?

Going the extra mile: Congrats, Indianapolis! 105% voter registration!

A collection of Obama quotes. Here's one of them:

"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff."

The economic adjustment. Calculated Risk. Related, The Fault lies closer to home. A quote:

In the past, people used to rely on bankers to guard themselves from their own worst financial instincts. They might have wanted to borrow 100 per cent (or 125 per cent) of the value of a home without the need to demonstrate thrift and reliability by making a down-payment. But they were shown the door.

Without bankers saying “no”, many people borrowed to the hilt, assuming that rising asset prices had eliminated all risk. Some confined themselves to buying bigger houses for themselves, while others bought second and third homes to rent them out while their capital appreciated.

 

Man, do I agree with this from Overcoming Bias:

...having as many people as possible voting is not a legitimate public interest.  To maximize the chance that we elect the better candidate, we do not want people to vote if they are so ill-informed that by voting they will decrease this chance.  And even if someone's vote would increase this chance, if the increase is infinitesimal the fact that voting is costly can make us prefer he or she just stay home.

Something else that truly needs government regulation

It's always somebody else's fault

China's role in the banking crisis. Related: World financial leaders seem to have a plan.

Big Brother at Williams College

A book: The Making of Goldman-Sachs

Palin at the pizza joint. Perfect.

Hillary went after the Ayers link hard. Too little, too late. But now Ayers is a "school reformer"? What's that? Is that a job?

Call me anything as long as you call me to dinner.

Speaking of dinner, this is gross. Eat me?

Don't look at this: The 8 Phases of Dating. h/t, Cons. Grapevine

Obama campaign ignores press. McCain campaign indulges them. Press still loves Obama. Tell me this: How long has it been since it was fashionable to be a Lefty? How out-of-date are these people?

McCain bought into this dumb Hillary idea. I ain't buying this junk.

"Does anybody really seriously believe that Barack Obama is a secret left-wing radical?" I have no reason not to. Well, facts don't matter, but he was a member of the Chicago Socialist party. More on that story from Powerline. Also, for O, any human need may deserve an entitlement.

Matt Taibbi drinks the Kool Aid. Sheesh. I thought he was better than that.

Great minds think alike. Sowell and Maggie's are on the same page:

      Tom Sowell on Facts Don't matter

      Tom Sowell on The Real Obama, Part 1 and The Real Obama, Part 2

Via Dr. Sanity:

‘You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.” So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness.

Gerry wants you to watch this Iowahawk presentation, a revision of the (removed) original creepy Youtube:

Photo: The Pave Low chopper has been decommissioned.

Where ACORN goes, trouble follows. Caught again. The organization is beginning to look like a mob racket. NB: ACORN gets 40% of their income from government. Good grief.

What is Palin? A monkey or a racist?

What did not come up in the debate? "There was no mention of abortion, immigration, moral values, same sex marriage, guns, their role models, their view of the presidency, or their religious faith."

The premise of Obamian Socialism: "The center of his economic universe is the budget of the federal government."

These people are really green. And utterly insane, no doubt.

Fusion? Why not? h/t, Flares

J&J is over 100 years old. Good company, and they keep track of their history.

Not impressed by either guy's knowledge or grasp of the issues. Obama seems to fake it, understanding little but covering it up with style like a used car dealer. I think he's a slick phony. (Bill Clinton was slick, but not a phony.) McCain knows about foreign affairs, but that's about it, and he lacks vigor it would seem. In sum, McCain helped himself a little, and Obama just showed, again, how little depth he has. I hate to admit it, but these guys make Hillary look good and McCain looks like Dole redux - which I was afraid of. Both of them clueless, in my humble opinion.

neoneo: "A double train wreck"

The end of race as we know it. Chronicle

McGovern: Obama is too radical

Coming to your neighborhood soon: released Gitmo terrorists

Obama's fishy $200 million

Ohio: bussing the homeless to vote

The current state of history teaching. Tiger

UN Socialists exploit financial crisis. Pols do tend to exploit crises for their own agendas, don't they?

Discouragement about the election via Kathryn Jean Lopez. A quote:

My family and I will suffer serious financial hardship over the next 4 years. Obama has no understanding of those of us who work 80 hour weeks, spend countless nights away from our families to provide a good life for them and aren’t some notorious CEO’s (could that guy from Lehman be a bigger idiot?). Gov. Romney’s speech at CPAC and Gov. Palin in this campaign are the only two people that I have seen that speak to us who bust our backsides to support our family, don’t want Government to give us anything and understand what we are all about.

Just a thought: How much of the stock market correction is in anticipation of Obama's election?

The case that mark-to-market contributed to the banking crisis

Not "mainstream"

The reappearance of the Straight Talk Express

"No, Barney … the conservatives haven’t been blaming poor blacks. They’ve been blaming you."

Can McCain catch up? Doubtful. The economic news is a nasty headwind.

Michelle Obama has always been a complainer

The Wright Stuff. Kristol

The worst academic careers, worldwide

Watch as Dems blame banking crisis on deregulation

The credit crisis will end, but the recession that began in September will be the bigger problem

Voters easily deluded by populist simplicities. But is that anything new?

Ayers, Rezko, Wright, and the Economy. Hewitt

Front Page enjoyed American Carol

How the NYT handled the Ayers story

Blue State Blues. Driscoll

Germany to EU: Drop dead

Staying out of poverty is simple

I can't believe this less-than-enthusiastic Bill Clinton defense of Obama

Winking update

Vote fraud expected to be rampant this year

Oil prices heading down

This may explain why the Arctic ice was melting, but not Antarctic ice: wind. h/t, Tiger

Formal complaint re foreign donations to Obama

John at Powerline:

When the McCain campaign ran an ad that had a white woman in it, it was denounced as racist. When it ran an ad that had an African-American man (Franklin Raines) in it, it was denounced as racist. Now the McCain campaign links Obama to a white man, the former terrorist, and still anti-American, Bill Ayers. That's racist too. I think we've exhausted just about all the possibilities. The only non-racist thing McCain can do, apparently, is concede the election.

More on that story at Jules

Is Obama an effete, dithering, Ivy League twit, a member of the lunatic fringe with a suit as a disguise, a preacher manque, an unanchored megalomaniac, or a heavyweight ready to assume the terrifying responsibilities of the defence of America? I think he wants to keep us guessing, so everybody can fill in the blanks their own way.

I think he's all of the above, sort of a Jimmy Carter-Henry Wallace combo, but with a much better schtick: He made what? $4 million last year? Not too darn bad for a politician who hates capitalism.

Jon Voigt thinks he's the second, but we don't take our insight from Hollywood, even though we like Voigt.

The Brit Ambassador cannot figure out who he is, or what he stands for.

I know facts don't matter in this election, but these are Obama's economic advisors. Sheesh. Greedy Dem thieves, every one. Not to mention Barney Frank's boyfriend.

Simple, obvious questions that reporters will not ask Obama. They are afraid to.

Gone raving mad. Powerline

Palin: "Just once it would be nice if Barack Obama said he wanted us to win (in Iraq)."

Fannie Mae: An insider's view

The AP goes neocon, essentially admits Bush was right about Iraq. Is that a sign that they think the election is over?

Photo: The Old Lyme, CT First Congregational Church. A beaut of its type. Built in 1817, it is the fourth church built by the congregation, which formed in 1665. It sounds like an active and growing church.