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Bush has begun accepting that special honor of the two-term president, the presidential pardon. Who gets the honors? Our distinguished lineup includes: Isaac Robert Toussie, “one of Long Island’s biggest developers” who, at 29 years old, raked in $20 million from selling subprime mortgages to “inner city minorities” who couldn’t afford Toussie’s overpriced, apparently dilapidated [...]
As the end of his presidency nears, Bush is going to attempt to push through some of its own pending regulations. ProPublica keeps a handy table of these laws and what they do.
In a way, it’s all very refreshing. Al Gore’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000, Joe Lieberman, has been one of John McCain’s biggest supporters, introducing McCain at this year’s Republican convention. Meanwhile, George W. Bush’s Secretary of State and the man who introduced Bush at the 2000 Republican convention, Colin Powell, comes out for Obama. [...]
In response to my post of a few days ago, “Why Libertarians Should Beware a Liberal Supermajority,” Chris writes: Sure, Obama might be a socialist who ruins the health care landscape for aspiring medical doctors like myself. But, even if he’s really bad, it’ll be a different kind of bad than we’ve had the last [...]
Although I long ago said I’d prefer Barack Obama to any of the other Republican candidates in the field after Ron Paul, Obama has gotten scarier and scarier since he started facing off against McCain rather than Hillary. Next to Hillary, he seemed like a beacon of calm, a supremely intelligent and elegant man who [...]
You can almost never go to a bank without seeing it. You can’t see a bank commercial without hearing it. “Insured by FDIC.” The bailout bill that the Senate will vote on tonight is different than the one the House voted down two days ago. It raises the FDIC cap from $100,000 to $250,000, among [...]
Lew Rockwell writes: “Today? The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that’s when he travels in the United [...]
George W. Bush yesterday on his presidency: “It’s what I do during my presidency. I go around spreading good will and talking about the importance of spreading freedom and peace.”