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There's something happening here, and what it is, is all too clear. McCain - Palin rallies over the last few days have disintegrated into festivals of hate, and the two candidates at the center of this are ...

Published: Friday, October 10, 2008 at 5:25 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 10, 2008 at 7:45 a.m. The Federal Reserve and Congress are pushing out close to $1 trillion to repair the nation's financial ...

The Saturday Night Live re-write crew has now cleansed and re-uploaded its Soros/Sandler-bashing bailout skit - not only by removing the caption "People Who Should Be Shot" under the Sandlers, but also by ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday a recently approved financial bailout bill gives him wide authority to inject capital into the banking system and would not rule out having Treasury take ...

Emergency interest rate cuts Wednesday by the Federal Reserve and five other central banks left in doubt whether government efforts to cure the financial crisis would show results fast enough to avert fresh ...

I apologize to my readers for last week's irrational exuberance, when I was celebrating us "little people" whose resistance to "The Bailout" sent the House version back to the drawing board.

UNTIL the past few weeks, the financial panic was still mostly far away on Wall Street.

Everyone by now should know that Barney Frank, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee was in bed with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, literally.

The House today voted 263-171 to pass the $700 billion financial market rescue bill, and it was signed by President Bush this afternoon.

Summary: Michael Savage again falsely claimed that Rep. Barney Frank "ran a house of ill-repute for male prostitutes out of his apartment in Washington." In fact, the House ethics committee determined in 1990 ...

Insurance giant AIG's role in market crisis probed Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., far right, speaks with reporters as she announces the passing of the financial rescue package, Friday, Oct.

Listen for long to Rep. Barney Frank and you find yourself thinking of his brain as a kind of non-stop improvised explosive device _ an IED _ that is forever going off and sending little shards of nastiness the ...

In my more cynical moments, I think that we Americans deserve what we get from our politicians, many of whom can be generally described as nothing less than loathsome.

Congress approved a historic government intervention into the nation's financial markets on Friday.

In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Rahm Emanuel attend a news conference after passage of the $700 billion financial bailout bill in an attempt to provide relief for the current financial and banking ...

Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson turned to a familiar source when he picked a director for the government's $700 billion bailout program: his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs.

Neel Kashkari, a former Goldman executive who has worked with Paulson at the department since July 2006, was chosen Monday as the interim head of the government's unprecedented effort to unclog the credit markets.

Kashkari, who was a vice president in Goldman's San Francisco office before joining the department, is one of four former executives from the firm now working feverishly to resolve the financial crisis.

Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated.

Desperate to avoid another market-crushing defeat, House leaders won key converts Thursday to the $700 billion financial industry bailout on the eve of a make-or-break second vote.