Midweek Politics with David Pakman 7-1-09 - The "freedom fries" Congressman, MJ, Sanford, gay exorcism, more

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

July 1st, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:13

This Week's Topics:

--Former Republican Congressman from Ohio Bob Ney joins us live to discuss his creation of freedom fries, his time in prison, and his new talk radio show.

--Shane Hankins, Executive Director of Grassroots.org, joins us live to talk about the free technology services they give away to non-profits, why non-profits fall way behind in technology, and more.

--Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's bizarre involvement and statements around Michael Jackson's death.

--Followup on the Governor Mark Sanford Argentina scandal, including comments from other Republicans about whether or not the Republican Party just has a problem with morality.

--Fox News once again mislables a Republican in trouble, this time Mark Sanford, as a Democrat.

--Some recordings of Richard Nixon are uncovered and it turns out he was in favor of having abortions available in some cases, specifically interracial pregnancies.

--Al Franken is finally going to the US Senate as the Senator from Minnesota replacing Norm Coleman.

--Ann Coulter compares the killing of Dr George Tiller to a very late term abortion.

--A gay exorcism at a Connecticut church.

--Discuss this show on the Midweek Politics Liberty Lounge Discussion Forum

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 6-24-09 -- Ethical investing, black conservative Republican lawyer, health care, Iran, more

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 24th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:54

This Week's Topics:

--Terry Mollner and Susan Wennemyr from Skateholders Capital join us live to discuss socially responsible investing, ethical companies and mutual funds, and much more.

--Horace Cooper, conservative legal commentator and writer joins us live to talk about Sotomayor, empathy and the rule of law, and more.

--South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford returns from his mysterious absence and announces he has been cheating on his wife with a woman from none other than David Pakman's home country, Argentina, where he dissappeared to in recent days.

--The latest from Iran, including President Obama's comments on the situation at a recent press conference, which included a question for him direct from Iran.

--Controversy continues over whether Obama has done enough, said enough, and meddled enough when it comes to Iran.

--An unbelievable story from Iran in which a man is asked for money as a bullet fee before his dead son's remains will be returned to him after being shot while protesting.

--Health care, including the recent comments by President Obama on the subject, and his statement that doing nothing is not an option.

--Bill Scher's recent article with actual facts and numbers about the various health care proposals.

--A discussion about whether the cost of uninsureds, prescription drugs, or other factors are the biggest reason for price increases in health insurance, and recent polls showing that an overwhelming majority of Americans support government run health care.

--The 2010 census will count same sex couples as a result of a reversal of Bush administration policy by the Obama administration.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 06-17-2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 17th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:02

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit, joins us live to talk about ethical marketing and more.

--Michael Koolidge, of The Michael Koolidge Show, joins us live to talk about right-wing terrorism and meeting David Pakman at the Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York.

--The Holocaust museum shooting in detail, inluding eyewitness accounts and media coverage.

--The same conservatives who implied that the Army recruiting center shooting was a result of general anti-war coverage by the media claim that James Von Brunn was acting completely alone, was a lone wolf, and was not at all influenced by outside sources in his actions, although he has numerous ties to right wing hate groups, white supremacy organizations, and has written books along those lines.

--New right wing terror threats continue, including a threatening violent voicemail left at another abortion clinic.

--Health care talk continues to ramp up, with President Obama proposing a change to the system that would include a public insurance option, additional private options, and the option to keep the same insurance, plan, and doctor that you have now.

--Congressman Barney Frank walks off the CNBC set after what he says was not being allowed to answer the multiple questions being asked of him at the same time.

--Gay marriage and a discussion of whether the Constitutional right to equal protection supercedes any state or other decisions on the issue.

--The David Letterman Sarah Palin controversy, including an apology from Letterman he probably didn't need to give. We also look at whether Sarah Palin is just in an attention-seeking moment, given that a similar Jay Leno joke around election time received no reaction from the Palin side, and John McCain's poor taste joke about Chelsea Clinton.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 06-10-2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 10th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:24

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Shirley Phelps-Roper from the God Hates Fags Westboro Baptist Church joins us live to talk about gay marriage, how she hates homosexuals and Jews, and plenty more.

--David Pakman's trip to the New Media Seminar, including run-ins with Sean Hannity, Governor Mike Huckabee, Ed Schultz, Montel Williams, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, and plenty of others, as well as Rush Limbaugh.

--CNN and Lou Dobbs insist on polling people on the premise of whether President Obama apologizes too much during his speeches.

--Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Mitt Romney also jump in on the apologist bandwagon.

--Barack Obama's Cairo speech, reaction to it, and criticism about not using the word terrorists enough.

--President Obama's continued strong approval ratings, and what might drop them soon.

--Two journalists sentenced to prison in North Korea after a meaningless show trial, why it's absurd, and what might be done about it.

--Fox News is feigning anger at Sacha Baron-Cohen's stunt during the MTV news awards because his buttocks were showing.

--More news about Sonia Sotomayor, including that Rush Limbaugh may support her, Pat Buchanan is simply race-baiting, and Newt Gringrich says she is not racist, but racialist.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 06.03.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

June 3rd, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:30

This Week's Topics:

--The murder of Doctor George Tiller, the physician who performed late term abortions in Kansas, but an anti-abortion radical.

--While some blamed Bill O'Reilly for inciting violence against Tiller by covering him specifically, O'Reilly has responded that general anti-war coverage by MSNBC could just as easily be blamed for the shooting of an Army recruiter in the southern US this week.

--Previous attacks on Doctor Tiller, including when he was shot in both arms, and a discussion about the security measures he had to take on a daily basis.

--Conservative Randall Terry's response to the killing, including his comments that while this type of murder is bad, Tiller was a mass murderer and deserved to die.

--More on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, including questioning why, if she makes decisions based on her ethnicity, she ruled AGAINST a fellow Hispanic in the firefighter reverse discrimination case.

--Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, the first Hispanic to hold that position, comments on Sotomayor's nomination.

--The General Motors bankruptcy, including bogus claims from Michelle Malkin that Republican-owned car dealerships were being unfairly targetted to be closed down.

--Are electric hand dryers always more envrionmentally friendly than paper towels, as many public bathroom signs say?

--David Petraeus, in an interview with Fox News Channel's Martha McCallum, declines to agree with her GOP talking points, saying closing GITMO is a good idea, and that the US did make mistakes after 9/11.

--Griff Jenkins bugs Barney Frank for an answer about ACORN and funding, and ignores Frank's answer in giving his wrap up of the situation.

--One Republican Congressman wants to legislate this year as the year of the bible, and at the same time mentions that government has too much control.

--Dick Cheney makes the closest thing to a pro gay marriage statement we've heard from him.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman 5.27.09

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 27th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:02

This Week's Topics:

--Ron Miller, technology writer and social networking expert is live in studio.

--Sonia Sotomayor is nominated to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court by President Obama.

--Sotomayor's controversial cases, her experience, her qualifications, and her controversial statement that policy is made in courts.

--Mike Huckabee was so quick to put out his criticism of the Sotomayor nomination that he released a statement with her first name incorrect.

--Rush Limbaugh no only still wants President Obama to fail, he wants Sonia Sotomayor to fail, while Karl Rove says she may not be strong intellectually.

--Sotomayor's positions on abortion, free speech, the right to bear arms, and more.

--Barack Obama forgets Defense Secretary Robert Gates' first name, calling him William.

--More on waterboarding and torture.

--Will there be a live waterboarding on the show?

--The Minority Report and pre-crime are discussed in relation to Barack Obama's recent support for indefinite holding of detainees without charges.

--Barack Obama and Dick Cheney's dueling speeches on the same day.

--The California Supreme Court upholds the gay marraige ban voted on last November.

--Which states currently allow gay marriage, which will be next, and more.

--Growing food in indoor greenhouses at twenty times the efficiency as outdoors on completely renewable energy.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.20.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 20th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 58:55

This Week's Topics:

--Tom Rossmassler from HAPHousing and Sagecoach Enterprises joins us live to discuss green building, green jobs, alternative energy, and more.

--A strange trip to Chicago and the suburbs, including sinners and more.

--The controversy with Barack Obama, abortion, and the Notre Dame commencement speech, and the always necessary comaprison to Nazis.

--John Boehner's orange color.

--We discuss the decision not to release torture photographs.

--Dick Cheney is no longer at undisclosed secure locations as his press tour continues, and he continues to say President Obama is making the US less safe.

--Some say that not only were waterboarding and other techniques not authorizes, but that they were not even necessary or effective.

--The confusion over what Nancy Pelosi knew, when she knew it, and whether she lied about it.

--Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has one of the most entertaining media tours in a while, arguing with Sean Hannity, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the Fox and Friends crew about torture and waterboarding.

--New fuel efficiency standards by 2016 will require over 35 miles per gallon for cars and light trucks. We talk about how this will affect automakers, the economy, and more.

--From conflict diamonds to conflict cell phones, including a recent campaign about conflict minerals from the Congo being used in cell phones to make them vibrate.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.13.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 57:09

This Week's Topics:

--Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center, joins us live to talk about President Obama's and past presidential approval ratings, and Arlen Specter's switch to the Republican Party.

--Maine's Governor John Baldacci signs a bill legalizing gay marriage, making Maine the 5th state on that list.

--A recent report says the economic benefit to Maine from legalizing gay marriage would be significant.

--As a result of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lieutenant Choi, a West Point graduate and Arabic linguist who came out on Rachel Maddow's program a few months ago is fired from the military.

--Miss California Carrie Prejean is now going beyond just having an opinion on gay marriage by actively campaigning against it.

--The Catholic Church's pedophilia problems continue, and some think that allowing priests to marry would help the situation.

--Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that he would rather have Rush Limbaugh in the Republican Party over Colin Powell.

--Bill O'Reilly suggests that the strategy for the GOP to revive itself is to attack Bruce Springsteen over comments related to Pete Seeger, a singer many of today's voters have never heard of.

--The White House Correspondents Dinner, including Wanda Sykes comments about Obama's critics, as well as some funny lines from President Obama.

--Global warming denier John Stossel says the way to protect endangered species is to eat them.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 05.06.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

May 6th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:58

This Week's Topics:

--Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpakman, ask questions live during the show, all that good stuff.

--Bruce Miller, professor of Constitutional Law, Law and Terrorism, and Legal Ethics at Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts, is live in studio to talk about waterboarding and torture, and criminalizing bad legal advice.

--The pitfalls of Twittering political stuff and more on social networking sites.

--Liz Cheney insists that what took place during the Bush administration was not torture.

--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to waterboarding since an interrogation is not punishment.

--Bill Cunningham makes Sean Hannity seem reasonable during a 30 second soundbyte during which he uses every Obama smear in the book.

--Fox News reports that Michele Obama was portrayed by some as an angry woman, without mentioning it was their network that led the charge on that count.

--Ann Coulter insists on repeating the same flawed statistics about presidential approval ratings.

--More media outlets, including Sheriff Joe Arpaio, currently under investigation for wanton racial profiling, says the cause of Swine Flu is illegal immigration.

--Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says closing the border will not help the Swine Flu situation.

--Lou Dobbs criticizes opposition to the term swine flu without noting that his own network was involved in the criticism.

--During the GOP Listening Tour, it is suggested that students can learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh than from high school or college.

--President Barack Obama will get to choose a Supreme Court Justice to replace David Souter.

--Barack Obama, while happy to have Senator Arlen Specter as a Democrat, says it will not give him a blank check.

--Congressman Mike Pence, R-IN, refuses to say he believes in evolution, and dances around the concept of science altogether.

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.29.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 29th, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:37

This Week's Topics:

--Rabbi Irwin Kula joins is live to talk about gay marriage and religion, plus much more.

--Swine flu, including what it is, how it's spreading, where it's been, what to do, and more.

--We look at the World Health Organization's pandemic scale.

--How do those who don't have sick time at work or don't have health insurance handle a situation like swine flu?

--A pandemic of paranoia, with a bunch of media outlets suggesting illegal immigrants are the reason that swine flu made it to the United States.

--Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania, one of the most senior Republican Senators, switches to the Democratic Party.

--Most media outlets report Specter's switch as a big story, although Fox News attempts to downplay its significance from the start.

--More on torture and waterboarding, including the question of whether lawyers can or should be prosecuted for giving bad legal advice.

--Senator Joe Lieberman suggests that we shouldn't worry about what Bush administration officlas did relating to torture because a few years have already passed.

--While we know George W. Bush was wrong when he said the US did not torture, we debate whether he was knowingly lying or not.

--Suggestions that by prosecuting former Bush officials the United States would be acting like a banana republic.

--A hate crime bill passes out of committee, and conservatives don't like it one bit.

--Much more..

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.22.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 22nd, 2009

Produced by:

David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 56:41

--Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon from Sea Change Radio are live in studio.

--Recently released memos reveal that it turns out the Bush administration did torture, including waterboard KSM 183 times.

--Many conservatives say the problem is not the torture, but the fact that the memos were released.

--The idea that torture by the US is a recruiting tool for terrorists isn't subscribed to by all.

--John McCain says waterboarding is torture, but also thinks the memos should not have been released.

--Miss USA might have been decided by a question about gay marriage, and we discuss whether Miss California's answer should have affected the results of the contest.

--Barack Obama addresses assault weapons and gun control a few weeks after a man who was very afraid Obama would take his guns killed three police officers.

--The tea-baggers are credited with the jum in the Dow over a few day period.

--Fox News uses a study from Spain to suggest green jobs could hurt more than they help, but they don't mention the study was done by a member of a group that seeks to counter alarm about global warming.

--A very bizarre script for an ad a Republican group wanted to produce that ended up on the cutting room floor.

--Controversy over the Department of Homeland Security report that said right wing extremists might seek to recruit veterans, among others, including reaction from Neil Cavuto and Pat Robertson.

--Much more

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.15.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 15th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:00

This Week's Topics:

--Dan Viederman, Executive Director of Verité, a nonprofit, training, research, and social auditing organization, is live in studio.

--Tea parties and teabagging on tax day ends up basically as a Fox News event.

--Both commentators and reporters on Fox give their fair and balanced take on the teabagging, although some say it is just another way for Republicans to voice their displeasure with Barack Obama.

--The National Organization for Marriage comes out with an unbelievable ad about gay marriage taking away their freedom, and then pulls it from embarassment. Not to be outdone, they follow it up with a new campaign they are nicknaming 2M4M, a calling card for gay male threesomes in personal ads and on the internet.

--Conservative Dennis Prager says that gay marriage is as important an issue right now as the economy.

--Texas Congresswoman Betty Brown asks the Asian community to change their names so they are easier for Americans to deal with, or maybe just so she doesn't sound so stupid trying to pronounce them.

--Even after the recent shootings, media conservatives continue to fearmonger about Barack Obama taking your guns.

--Dick Morris, in his latest rant, says that President Obama gave away American economic sovereignty to Europe at the G20 summit.

--Leon Panetta bans CIA use of contract workers to interrogations, so we can rest assured that from now on, all interrogation will be done by the actual CIA.

--Ronald Regan's adopted son Michael says that so far, Barack Obama's presidency has been anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, and pro-abortion.

--Just over half of Americans believe that capitalism is better than socialism.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.08.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 8th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 54:15

This Week's Topics:

--Gay marriage in Iowa and Vermont, including comments from the Vermont Governor.

--The unbelievable shootout with the Pittsburgh police by a man upset over what he expected to be a ban on guns by President Barack Obama.

--North Korea launches a rocket over Japan, and we look at what it could be used for, how dangerous this is, and hear comments from Newt Gingrich.

--The AIG situation continues, this time with a former CEO previously accused of fraud saying he is not at all responsible.

--Payday loans, including some politicians trying to outlaw them, some trying to legalize them, and information about exactly what they are and the amazing interest rates charged.

--Concerns over the budget from conservatives dissappear when the spending relates to growing the military.

--Insane 911 calls from people from everything to being locked inside their own car to not getting enough shrimp in their fried rice, and whether individuals should have to pay for silly 911 calls.

--Al Franken's lead continues to grow in the Minnesota Senate race, but Norm Coleman and his friends at Fox News continue to push the issue.

--Fox News ambushes Columbia professor Alan Brinkley over a bizarre topic, while Sean Hannity criticizes the Obama administration for facts in their press kit about the United Kingdom, although the same facts were included in the Bush White House's press kit.

--Michael Savage is worried Obama will replace Lincoln with Malcolm X in the White House, although he was sworn in on Lincoln's bible, and Rush Limbaugh says the market went up one day last week because Barack Obama was out of the country.

--Much more.

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 04.01.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

April 1st, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 50:54

This Week's Topics:

--Barack Obama's internet press conference where he took questions submitted via the web.

--Media obsession over Barack Obama being power hungry, including comparisons to Roosevelt, and discussion of the removal of Rick Wagoner as CEO of General Motor and Obama's statements about fuel mileage requirements on automobiles.

--Suggestions from Newt Gingrich that the US is moving towards a dictatorship.

--Fox News hosts a former mobster to compare the Democrats with the mafia.

--Barack Obama addresses an internet question about the legalization of marijuana.

--Criticism that Obama's mortgage plan only helps irresponsible homeowners, and Obama's response.

--Suggestions that US businesses pay the second most taxes, although even with a high tax rate, actual taxes paid are quite low due to deductions and loopholes.

--Recent polls about whether this is Obama's recession, as many media outlets have claimed.

--An admission from unlikely suspects that Japanese automakers actually have an advantage against US automakers because Japan has national health care.

--Discussions about stem cell research and Alzheimer's, as well as hearing from Michael J Fox and Paul Begala.

--Dick Armey is scared by Barack Obama.

--Chaos in Mexico, including travel warnings and the fear of a government breakdown.

--Senator Grassley gets crazy in a budget debate, referring to Senator Conrad's wife.

--Bill O'Reilly's biggest enemies are liberal blogs.

--General David Petraeus denies the Bush White House tortured, but half heartedly defends Barack Obama against Dick Cheney's comments.

--Robert Gates says this isn't the right time to change the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy of the military.

--Michael Steele says God will tell him if she should run for President, but will it be the God that told Bush to go into Iraq, the one that told Pat Robertson about Hurricane Katrina months before it happened, or the one that told Osama Bin Laden to attack the World Trade Center?

--Much more...

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Midweek Politics with David Pakman - 03.25.2009

This Week on Midweek Politics with David Pakman

March 25th, 2009

Produced by:
David Pakman, WXOJ, Northampton, MA
Louis Motamedi, WXOJ, Northampton, MA

Total Running Time: 51:44

This Week's Topics:

--We discuss Barack Obama's latest prime time press conference, including questions from reporters.

--Criticism of Obama and his press conferences, including that he is boring, is doing too many of them, and is too optimistic.

--Obama's confidence in the coming economic recovery.

--Follow-up about AIG and the bonus controversy.

--Obama's responses to Ed Henry's prodding about why his response was slow to the AIG situation, stating that he likes to know what he's talking about before giving his opinion.

--Strange suggestions from Chuck Todd during the press conference that the American people haven't sacrificed nor suffered as a result of the economic crisis.

--The Obama press conference was apparently too boring for much of the media.

--Testimony from AIG CEO Edward Liddy, including comments that he wouldn't have given the bonuses that were previously promised, and that executives should give their bonus money back. He also refuses to give the names of those who received bonuses because he fears for their safety.

--An interesting letter send from an AIG executive to the CEO saying he quits, and explaning why.

--We look at how much the average individual making $300,000 would have to increase his tax payments by if the Bush tax cuts are rolled back.

--Strange comments on Fox News suggesting that the Dow dropped during Obama's speech because investors didn't like what he said, even though the Dow was higher at the end of the speech, not lower.

--Health care reform, including those who are confident it will happen, and those that think it's not the right time to change anything.

--An update on Guantanamo Bay, including a statement from a former Bush official that many of those held there are innocent.

--Pat Buchanan is worried about whether the US can handle an increase in Hispanics or whether the country will collapse.

--One conservative commentator accuses dictionaries of having a liberal bias.

--Much more...

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