National Politics
You’re lovable AR gang is also part of WPRO AM 630’s live team coverage. We’re manning their blog and Andrew and Justin will be reporting from the party HQs. I’ll be at home in my pajamas. Check it out!
First, there were reports that Republican poll workers were thrown out of polling places and that some of the voting machines in Philadelphia had Obama votes registered before the polls opened. Then there’s the Black Panthers, who are apparently providing “security”: Here’s a report: UPDATE:The police checked it out. UPDATE 2:It took a couple hours,…
Monique will be calling in for Anchor Rising’s regular pre-7:00 spot, tonight, on the Matt Allen Show, and she also took a few minutes to discuss Barney Frank with John DePetro on Monday morning. Stream the latter by clicking here, or download it.
I referenced the Ted Stevens conviction earlier, here are more details. There are several counts against him, but count #1 contains the gist of it: Stevens engaged in a scheme to conceal from his Senate financial disclosure documents home renovations and other gifts he received from Allen and VECO from 2000-2006. Stevens contends he never…
It’s the final week of this never-ending election and people who can make up their minds await the decision of the 10% (or so) who can’t. I can never figure out how you could be undecided at this point, but people are. In the Senate, despite the conviction of Ted Stevens (AK), it still looks…
Not a.r.m.’s or balloon payments this time. It seems that Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), in addition to millions in campaign contributions from the industry he purports to regulate, also received a couple of sweetheart mortgages totalling $800,000 from Countrywide Financial. Kevin Rennie in Sunday’s Hartford Courant: Sen. Christopher Dodd’s bewildering odyssey of entitlement, evasions and…
Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York.
As Monique mentioned, the ProJo has endorsed Barney Frank. I wonder if they would reconsider, given that Frank now says he will cut defense spending–an important piece of Rhode Island’s economy–by 25%. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Democrats will push for a stimulus package after the November election, and called for a package reducing defense…
You know, for a gang that claims to be enamoured of regulations and regulating, too many Democrats sure dropped the regulation ball when it came to mortgage guidelines and Fannie and Freddie. One of the more egregious offenders as we now know was Congressman Barney Frank. From September 9’s Wall Street Journal. At least the…