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A Fine Mess — A friend serving in the Bush administration called Sunday to try to talk me out of my doubts about the $700 billion financial bailout the administration was asking Congress to approve. I picked up the phone, and made the mistake of good-naturedly remarking …
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Weekly Standard, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Townhall.com, culturekitchen, The Huffington Post, Brian Beutler and Althouse
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Cash for Trash — Some skeptics are calling Henry Paulson's $700 billion rescue plan for the U.S. financial system “cash for trash.” Others are calling the proposed legislation the Authorization for Use of Financial Force, after the Authorization for Use of Military Force …
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CEO pay emerges as bailout barrier — Flying in the face of Congress and both presidential campaigns, Treasury is resisting efforts to impose pay limits on Wall Street executives and bankers whose companies stand to be helped by the government's $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets.
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Democrats Set Terms as Bailout Debate Begins
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The Caucus, The Next Right, MSNBC, The Agonist, Washington Wire, The RBC and The American Mind
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Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated “Grassroots” Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them [Updated] — ***Sticky***Scroll past on main page for newer posts***Updates sprinkled throughout post and summarized at end*** — Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine …
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Hot Air, Hog On Ice, Michelle Malkin, TBogg, www.redstate.com, Patterico's Pontifications, Gateway Pundit, Wizbang, Pajamas Media, The Strata-Sphere, Right Wing News, JammieWearingFool, Mother, May I Sleep …, The Other McCain, Scared Monkeys, NO QUARTER, Dean's World, Soccer Dad, Confederate Yankee and Riehl World View
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“eswinner's” YouTube Account Officially Closed 15 Minutes Ago; — No Defamation Without Representation! — I would once again stress that this is the best confirmation of everything Rusty alleged... and the stuff he didn't quite allege but we're all thinking is most likely true.
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The Jawa Report
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LIKE CLOCKWORK, VIDEOS TAKEN DOWN!!!
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The Moderate Voice, Wake up America, Dr. Sanity, Silent Running and Patterico's Pontifications
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For release at 9:30 p.m. EDT — The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday approved, pending a statutory five-day antitrust waiting period, the applications of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to become bank holding companies. — To provide increased liquidity support to these firms as they transition …
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The Swamp, Dealbreaker, Bloomberg, DealBook, The American Mind and Mish's Global Economic …
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Goldman, Morgan Scrap Wall Street Model, Become Banks in Bid to Ride Out Crisis
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Can you trust a Wall Street veteran with a Wall Street bailout?
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Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million — Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.
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MoJoBlog, Firedoglake, TPM Election Central, The Swamp, The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Ben Smith's Blogs, Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Matthew Yglesias, Donklephant, DownWithTyranny!, RAGGED THOTS, Liberal Values, The Peking Duck, AMERICAblog News, Pam's House Blend and The E&P Pub
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How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
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The Corner
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Palin on Ahmadinejad: ‘He Must Be Stopped’ — Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers who sought a nonpolitical event.
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Weekly Standard, Eunomia, Townhall.com, Commentary, The Strata-Sphere, Gateway Pundit and Wizbang
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Steering the McCain Campaign, a Lot of Old Bush Hands — When Gov. Sarah Palin flew home to Alaska for the first time since being named the Republican vice presidential nominee, she brought along at least half a dozen new advisers to conduct briefings, stage-manage her first television interview …
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Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses — COLORADO SPRINGS — Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy.
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Team McCain tosses more chum overboard — McCain's campaign knows they have to shift the debate away from one solely focused on the near-collapse of the economy on the watch of a Republican administration. — They began this effort last week by having McCain lay some of the blame …
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Washington Monthly
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Early voting starts today in some states — FAIRFAX, Va. — Voters by the thousands will begin casting ballots for president this week in an early voting process that's expected to set records this year. — Residents of Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia are among the first in the nation eligible to vote in person, as well as by mail.
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The End-Times And Sarah Palin — Yes, she believes in them. Of course she believes in them. Her former pastor believes that Alaska will be the refuge for the faithful in the lower 48 states when the Rapture comes. She is a Biblical literalist who denies evolution - who has to deny evolution - to remain in her church.
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Obama campaign staff pulling out of ND — BISMARCK, N.D. — Barack Obama, who has deployed more than 50 staffers in North Dakota in an attempt to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1964, is pulling out. — An Obama spokeswoman, Amy Brundage …
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Salon, Ben Smith's Blogs, Top of the Ticket, Gateway Pundit, Booman Tribune, Ace of Spades HQ, TIME.com, TalkLeft and The Campaign Spot
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2 Candidates Back Bailout, With Caveats — PHILADELPHIA — Senators John McCain and Barack Obama warned Sunday that there should be more oversight built into the government's $700 billion plan to stabilize the financial markets but said the potentially enormous expenditure would not force …
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The Crypt's Blogs, New York Times, Brendan Nyhan, Time, Real Clear Politics and TIME.com