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Top Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie MacCampaign Contributions, 1989-2008 Name Office Party/State Total1. Dodd, Christopher J S D-CT $133,9002. Kerry, John S D-MA $111,0003. Obama, Barack S D-IL $105,8494. Clinton, Hillary S D-NY $75,5505. Kanjorski, Paul E H D-PA $65,5006. Bennett, Robert F S R-UT $61,4997. Johnson, Tim S D-SD $61,0008. Conrad, Kent S […]...
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by Michelle Malkin The Mother of All Bailouts has many fathers. As panicked politicians prepare to fork over $1 trillion in taxpayer funding to rescue the financial industry, they’ve fingered regulation, deregulation, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Community Reinvestment Act, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, both Bushes, greedy banks, greedy borrowers, greedy short-sellers and minority […]...
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By Michael Solomon Where is Stefan Banic when we need him? For those of you who do not know who Stefan Banic (1870-1941) was, he invented the parachute. We really could have used him on Wall Street this past week. A soft landing is what the economy needed, but it did not come. This week’s […]...
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WND ELECTION 2008Presidential candidate drops line in interview discussing his belief Posted: September 07, 20083:42 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview today discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, “My Muslim faith.” Obama, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” was talking […]...
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By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | September 15, 2008http://www.nysun.com/national/high-stakes-trial-is-set-against-alleged-hamas-arm/85825/ Prosecutors are set today to take a second run at convicting officers of a Texas-based charity that the government contends was a Hamas beachhead in America, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Jury selection in the case against five former Holy […]...
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by Star Parkerwww.townhall.com Barney Frank isn’t just another liberal. And he is much more than just an openly gay congressman. He is a powerful legislator who happens to be chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. This makes Frank a central and influential player in government’s response to the current mortgage crisis that has rocked […]...
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Producers are not required to be sanitaryBy Mark Walsh and Olga R. Rodriguez | The Associated Press September 14, 2008 ALLENDE, Mexico – At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyor belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected […]...
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Ann Coulterwww.townhall.com Morose that there hasn’t been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage — but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were […]...
