By FRANK RICH/New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST
WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43. He is not a memorable [...]

 
By David Emery, About.com Urban Legends Page Editor
(I receive his regular newsletter and am amazed how gullible we all are -Ed.)
ONE WAY TO take the emotional temperature of a culture is to eavesdrop on its rumour mill. Gossip, legends, and rumours tend to revolve around our passions — the things we fear, the things we [...]

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(Pictured L to  R: Jim March, Bill Risner, John R. Brakey of AUDIT AZ)
 Millions will soon begin early voting in the General Election. Nearly half of all US counties will use Diebold GEMS tabulation system. Election officials have the ability to print off complete election summary reports throughout voting as ballots come in. This [...]

By Frank Rich
NYT Op-Ed Columnist
ROD BLAGOJEVICH is the perfect holiday treat for a country fighting off depression. He gift-wraps the ugliness of corruption in the mirthful garb of farce. From a safe distance outside Illinois, it’s hard not to laugh at the “culture of Chicago,” where even the president-elect’s Senate seat is just another commodity [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
NYC suburb, Greenwich, CT has 55 houses for sale asking $9 million dollars or more. Staff at East Hampton Airport on Long Island, a scene of private Gulfstream jet gridlock, says traffic is down 35%. Bettridge Jewelers on Wall Street, sees traffic mostly selling off jewells to make mortgage payments. It means deals on classic pieces [...]

 
I’m Really Gonna Miss Destroying This Place
By George W. Bush
Oh, America. Eight years went by so fast, didn’t they? I feel like I hardly got to know you and methodically undermine everything you once stood for. But I guess all good things must come to an end, and even though you know I would love [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
GM, a business now worth $3 billion dollars, is asking Congress for a bailout of $15 billion, be allowed to keep present management in place – the one’s who created this fiasco and for us to trust them that after dozens of years of getting it so very, very arrogantly wrong, they now [...]

by Denis Campbell
Leaving Paulson’s inept Treasury robbery aside for a moment, we’ve read about the slew of Bush Administration’s last minute regulatory rule changes… or have we? It’s a scary list and growing daily it seems. Simply, this corporate rape of the land and the environment must be stopped.
There is one website that is must [...]

…We’ll Miss You.
by Charley James 
So, convicted felon Alaska Senator Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid. 
After three months of Sarah Palin, it’s comforting to know there are some 3,000 more Alaskans who felt he shouldn’t be serving in the Senate and Leavenworth at the same time than there are those who didn’t see a problem with [...]

By Denis Campbell
The lunatic right fringe of an imploded party seems to be doing all the talking lately. Is anyone listening? Some snippets already working across the Web.
Obama the 1-termer
The guy is 69-days away from Inauguration and already the Right is calling him a 1-term President.
Barone Blunders Badly
A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos [...]