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• Libertarian-Republican’s New Kentucky Home

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 129
  I predicted a few days ago that Kentucky’s Republican primary would be one to watch. The race is to fill the seat of outgoing Senator Jim Bunning. Bunning is known for two things. One is his stellar baseball career. He is one of eighteen players to ever pitch a perfect game (read: no opposing players ever got to ...
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• This year’s New Jersey Budget gap grows fivefold

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The state on Wednesday told bond investors it is facing a $1 billion hole in this year’s budget — a shortfall five times bigger than previously disclosed — and will cut funding for schools, municipalities, higher education, hospitals and pension plans to close the gap. For months, Governor Corzine has been ...
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• Bank of England Reveals Secret £62bn mission to save banking sector within hours of collapse

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS were given a secret £61.6 billion in bridging loans last year on top of the £500 billion of support that the banking sector received from the taxpayer, the Governor of the Bank of England disclosed yesterday. MPs expressed astonishment when Mervyn King told them about the emergency ...
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• The Right’s Rebirthing Pains

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 129
  In the aftermath of 2008 alot of conservatives seemed almost as if the life had been completely sucked out of them. Many could be found stumbling along, unshaven, hair akimbo, mumbling, “How could this happen? How could they have elected HIM?” I exaggerate some, yet the fact is that many conservatives were utterly ...
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• Front Page of Friday’s NY Times: With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  While the F.H.A. is certainly strengthening the high-end market in the Bay Area by prompting more sales, there are growing concerns that it might become a destabilizing force. Kenneth Donohue, inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the parent agency of the F.H.A., said the higher loan ...
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• Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer. Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon ...
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• WSJ: Weighing Jobs and Deficit

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  The White House is lukewarm about proposals by congressional Democrats to introduce broad legislation to create jobs, instead favoring targeted measures that would be less likely to inflate the deficit, administration officials said. There is as yet no agreement within the White House or in Congress on how to try to ...
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• Palin Phenom Runs through Roanoke

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 129
  Although readers of this blog know that I remain skeptical of Sarah Palin’s long term political future, I still like her and her politics. I believe that she has strayed a bit too far from her initial image as a conservative reformer, though this was largely due to both the media’s attacks and the ensuing ...
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• Sikh man to be first non-white member of the BNP: why the surprise?

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 121
  The Guardian today reported how a Sikh man who has campaigned for the British National Party (BNP) in support of its anti-Islam stance has been nominated to be the party’s first non-white member.As the newspaper reported:Rajinder Singh, who is in his late 70s, has twice lent support to Nick Griffin during the ...
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• Palin’s Growing Pains

  
  On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah — Authority: 129
  Despite the near endless parade of conservative faces opposing Obama these days, it seems that one face has overshadowed all of them, largely on her own appeal: Sarah Palin. Palin’s appeal is undeniable: a true outsider who connects with average Americans in innumerable ways. And yet it would seem that her assets ...
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• Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  As the University of California’s Board of Regents met Thursday at U.C.L.A. and approved a plan to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent next fall, hundreds of students from campuses across the state demonstrated outside, beating drums and chanting slogans against the increase.... ...
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• More members of middle class file for bankruptcy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University associate professor of sociology, finds that personal bankruptcy has become a largely middle-class phenomenon led by filers who are college-educated and owners of homes. According to the study, "The ...
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• 2009 Golden Horse nominations

  
  Kung Fu Cinema — Authority: 521
  Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards will be capping the 46th annual Golden Horse Awards Film Festival on November 28. Nominations have been announced and I have picked… Related Posts 28th Hong Kong Film Award nominations Golden Harvest is back! … sort of Golden Harvest aims high for studio revival
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• Last Night’s NBC Evening News Leads with: Anger over the Economy

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Watch it all--those of us in parish ministry need to be sensitive to these dynamics and to seek to allow these sentiments to be channeled in constructive and creative ways--KSH.
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• The Hill: Stock tax less likely for jobs bill

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday played down the possibility of using a stock trade tax to fund jobs legislation, saying it should only be done in conjunction with other countries. "It would have to be an international rule," Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at her weekly news conference. She said that she did not want ...
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• Obama Mortgage Bailout Plan-Understanding The Obama Mortgage…

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 159
  When he was put into the office as president in 2008 the new president Barack Obama knew that the adjustable rate mortgage was causing the large numbers of foreclosures that were happening across Nort… Continue reading here: Obama Mortgage Bailout Plan-Understanding The Obama Mortgage…
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• California again faces massive deficit, projected at $21 billion

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  California government is again beset with red ink, facing a nearly $21-billion deficit over the next year and half, according to a report released today by the states chief budget analyst. Nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor projected state spending severely out of line with tax collections not just amid the ...
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• $500 Million, and an Apology, From Goldman Sachs

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  How much good will can an apology — and half a billion dollars — buy? Goldman Sachs is hoping it will be a lot. After first staunchly defending its outsize profits and pay, and then bristling at calls for restraint in these tough economic times, Goldman is trying a new tack: It is apologizing for past mistakes ...
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• Philadelphia Gives Homeowners a Way to Stay Put

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Christopher Hall stepped tentatively through the entranceway of City Hall Courtroom 676 and took his place among dozens of others confronting foreclosure purgatory. His hopes all but extinguished, he fully expected the morning to end with a final indignity: He would sign over the deed to his house — his ...
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• Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama told Fox News his administration faces a delicate ...
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