

Public Forum today for commission
OGDEN — Candidates for the Weber County Commission have been invited to take part in a public forum at 7 p.m. [...]
This is one of the hottest articles tonight at Digg.
Terrorists, Secessionists, Sarah Palin and Guilt by Association
Disgust
her interviews that are nothing more than disconnected prepositional phrases laced with stock GOP pablum. But accusing a sitting U.S. Senator of “palling around with terrorists” is crossing the line.
…followed by [...]



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[...]Senator McCain’s genius political consultants are trying to steer the presidential campaign away from the economy and its down-spiraling fundamentals. Instead, they want to talk about “past associations” of the candidates.
Well, let’s talk. How about Senator McCain’s long friendship with Ahmed Chalabi, the crooked Iraqi [...]

Where the hell were these people in 2000? (Politico):
Branding his opponent as "erratic in a crisis," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.
[...] Obama isn't waiting to respond. His campaign is going up [...]
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[...]Listen carefully. Somewhere in this Bill O’Reilly rant is some self-reflection.
[...]Two weeks ago we wrote about a survey of economists preference for our next President.
Criticism from he right-wing readers was predictable. Bias they screamed. “Economists are almost all academics” said one (RO). As if academics are liberal because they tend to be well-educated.
Now the prestigious Economists Magazine has [...]

The turbulent events of recent weeks have demonstrated, in small measure, the instability of our global banking system. While minor differences do indeed exist between commercial banking institutions throughout the world, nearly every single one shares a common foundation: its fractional-reserve system.
Lest [...]
The savagely wrong so-called bailout bill now passed by both houses of Congress, like the Iraq war, which is not incidental to our economic melt-down, is the worst thing we’ve done since waging the wrong war with the wrong people in the wrong way. Same crowd of fools and knaves. [...]