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• Gingrich: "There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us"

  Tue Nov 18, 2008
  • Newt is right, we liberals are a bunch of facists with our insistance that if you don't want to enter into a gay marriage or if you don't want an abortion you don't have to participate. As a matter of fact you are morally obligated to do as your own conscience dictates.

• Newsvine Q&A: Chuck Todd on U.S. Politics

  Wed Nov 12, 2008
  • Our relations with Central and South America have been neglected for the past decade. Do you think we will see a return to a more dynamic relationship with the Southern Hemisphere?

• 2012 Candidates: Hope for the GOP

  Wed Nov 5, 2008
  • There ought to be a waiting period before party hacks and pundits can start trotting out lists of likely suspects for next time round.

• "Barack Obama is a Muslim"

  Sun Nov 2, 2008
  • The reason that I have faith in the country's ability to change is comments made yesterday by my 80 year old mother, a child of the South. She told me that she had already voted and that her vote had gone to "that young black man".

• Bernanke explores options for housing finance

  Fri Oct 31, 2008
  • In all of the possible fixes for home financing the one area that no one is addressing is consumer education. Seems to me that if you want consumers to avoid bad lending practices then you mandate consumer education. It would work like this.

• McCain get's nasty = Obama poll numbers increase

  Fri Oct 10, 2008
  • I didn't realize how vile the right's propaganda had gotten until an old hippie friend sent me a release from the McCain-Palin pr machine that started out with a message about creating jobs and then jumped into a tiatribe accusing Obama as consorting with terrorists. The board that both …

• Bernanke urges immediate action on bailout

  Tue Sep 23, 2008
  • Normally,I pass over the articles that run on and on but take a few minutes and read Merrill-387190. The author is spot on with the take on mortgages. That said, I finally heard something that made sense on CNBC this AM.

• More anxiety on Wall St.: Stocks dive, oil soars

  Mon Sep 22, 2008
  • I work in the mortgage industry and have some idea of what is involved in modifying a note in order to prevent a forclosure. If not one more loan went delinquent as of this month, it would still take at least a year to clear the pipeline.