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Obamas adds fuel to the fire


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Dollar Democracy

U.S. HOUSE MEMBERS RAISED 79 % OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OUTSIDE THEIR VOTERS’ DISTRICTS
BERKELEY, CA, Oct. 28 —MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that illuminates the connection between money and politics, issued a report today entitled ‘Remote Control,’ which shows the geographic origin, down to Zip code, of in-district and out-of-district campaign contributions [...]

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Just stop paying your mortgage

 
By Peter Schiff 
October 10, 2008
If you are a mortgage holder who is either struggling with crushing payments, bitter for having overpaid for your home during the bubble, or who has extravagantly refinanced when prices were rising, the government’s landmark $700 billion bailout package has an important message for you: stop making your mortgage payments . [...]

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Obama mentions his father

Matt and I discussed last week how Obama doesn’t tend to speak about his father. While on youtube listening to different speeches I ran across this Obama speech. Personally, I think this might be Obama’s best speech.

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Is this what the election is about?


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League of Democracies

Senator McCain has proposed a League of Democracies to confront the world’s problems. He feels this would be more effective in dealing with problems than the United Nations whether it comes to dealing with Iran, confronting genocide in Sudan, fighting AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa and working together to solve the crisis facing our environment. [...]

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Obama Launches Keating Economics

The Obama campaign has launched http://www.keatingeconomics.com/, a website that exposes McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal.
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston [...]

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