Sarah Palin likes to do it do herself clearly. In an effort to pre-empt an expected Alaska state ethics report, the Republican Hockey-Mom nominee’s own campaign staff has declared her not guilty of allegations she abused her office–if not herself–while Governor of the often frigid state.
A state public safety officer claims he was fired by [...]

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Was going to write about the spread of this credit crisis around the globe….till I noticed Tina Brown’s new spiffy website, The Daily Beast.
Brown, of course, edited both Vanity Fair and the New Yorker for many years, bringing both publications into the 21st century.
Back to the credit crisis–talk about speed!  In 1929, the market crashed [...]

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It’s like a cancer this financial crisis. Seems to be spreading regardless of what types of surgical intervention are being applied.
Comes news today that  Germany has “offered a blanket bank deposit guarantee,” says Reuters, in order to try and “contain the spreading credit crisis.”
This, of course, comes just two days after the U.S. puts through [...]

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Justice has come to O.J. Simpson.
A Las Vegas jury–in a late night verdict–found Simpson guilty on kidnapping and robbery charges that could send him to prison for life, though that is not thought likely.
The verdict came 13 years to the day when another jury in Los Angeles found Simpson not guilty of murdering his former [...]

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Okay. Who won?  You know what I am talking about. Palin or Biden?  Biden or Palin?
A fast look at some blogs suggests that since expectations for Palin’s performance were so low, she won the debate by virtue of the fact that she held her own and came across more confident that she has in recent [...]

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Are you ready for the Sarah Palin, Joe Biden Big Debate? How could you not be? Besides the financial crisis and what the Congress may or may not do, what else has been talked about as much in the news as the soon to be vice-presidential debate?
I spoke with someone today in Alaska who was [...]

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