Archive for April, 2010

Author Mike Rough
Is it just me or is something extremely wrong with the world of finances when Paulson & Co. Inc., is allowed to assemble a portfolio guaranteed to fail, and then bet against the CDO using default swaps purchased from Goldman, and are not being prosecuted for impropriety, or any number of violations of [...]

Author Mike Rough
I am sad to speak to you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demoralization and challenge to freedom in the history of our nation.
Eight years ago Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac both Government Sponsored Entities did conspire with Acorn to increase the amount of Sub Prime loans on [...]

Author Tony DeMaio
As those of you who have been following my odyssey these past few months know, I have been listening to Air America. I have found a wealth of material there. It is somewhat sad to see Air America decline so badly, as I just don’t know what I’m going to do [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
Harming your neighbor through bureaucratic means is on the rise, and why not, when anonymity is guaranteed and no action will be taken against you if your allegations are not true? Communists and the Code Napoleon!
Wasting our time in many ways is the result of increasing government intrusion into our [...]

Author James the Wanderer
I am an Engineer, at heart; my delight is in those Things that Work, that turn energy into useful products or work, safely, efficiently, and in a controlled manner. Yet when I was an undergraduate, I was required to take Electives, and most of mine were in Psychology and Sociology, for I [...]

Author Unknown
I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the successful passing of the recent health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued:
They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard the young man exclaim, “Isn’t [...]

Author Tony DeMaio
Once upon a time on a campus far, far away, I was a struggling young student. I came from a poor family, but I didn’t know it. I guess I was pretty poor myself at the time. I didn’t know that either.
The year was 1965, and Lyndon [...]

Author Mike Rough
A few days ago Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced that April was Confederate History Month in the state of Virginia. Originally the issue of slavery was left out of the proclamation but was added to it in the amended version below. WHEREAS, it is important for all Virginians to understand that the institution [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham
I learned a terrific point of law tonight, one which cheers me after a week of being in a funk over fifteen months that feel like thirty years during which not a day has passed during which I have not felt hated, oppressed, threatened, outraged, and depressed by all that “hope and [...]

Author Essie Feldhacher
As a rural dweller of many decades, a ‘y’all come back’ type people-person willing to give acceptance, respect, and even friendship to about anyone and anybody, I’ve found it disconcerting over the past few years to keep tabs on the general class distinctions in a supposedly classless nation where we’re in-word-only considered a [...]