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Crime skyrockets in 1 county, plummets right next door

WASHINGTON – One of the wealthiest counties in America reports crime skyrocketing by 22 percent in the first quarter of 2008, while its neighbor saw crime plummet by 19.3 percent in the same time period – coinciding with a get-tough policy on illegal immigration.

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Recent figures released by county police revealed a 6 percent increase in overall crime in 2007 compared with the previous year. Violent crime over that period increased by 4 percent.

EPA limits staff from talking

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is warning its pollution enforcement officials not to talk directly to congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press.

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"If you are contacted directly by the IG's office or GAO requesting information of any kind ... please do not respond to questions or make any statements,"

Bilingual ruling on education both praised and criticized

By GARY SCHARRER

The state of Texas is not complying with the federal Equal Education Opportunity Act, in that public schools are failing their obligation to overcome language barriers, Senior U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice said in a 95-page ruling on Friday.

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The number of children with limited English proficiency grows by at least 30,000 a year and reached 775,432 in the school year that just ended. Of those, 711,281 were Spanish-speaking students,

The death of Belgium?

By Ian Buruma

July 29, 2008

Belgium is in danger of falling apart. For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French-speaking Walloons (32% of the population) and Dutch-speaking Flemish (58%). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the nation-state.

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Opponents of gay marriage and Proposition 8

By Jessica Garrison

Supporters of Proposition 8, the proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, said they would file suit today to block a change made by California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown to the language of the measure's ballot title and summary.

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Petitions circulated to qualify the initiative for the ballot said the measure would amend the state Constitution "to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

O'S TOUR DE FARCE

Amir Taheri

TERMED a "learning" trip, Sen. Barack Obama's eight- day tour of eight nations in the Middle East and Europe turned out to be little more than a series of photo ops to enhance his international credentials.

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"He gave us the impression that the last thing he wanted was for Iraq to look anything like a success for the United States," a senior Iraqi official told me. "As far as he is concerned, this is Bush's war and must end in lack of success, if not actual defeat."

MOST effective way to get a woman into bed.

By Olinka Koster

'Many studies show that a sense of humour is sexually attractive, especially to women,' he said.
'But we've found that self-deprecating humour is the most attractive of all.
'It is a risky form of humour because it can draw attention to one's real faults, thereby diminishing the self-deprecator's status in the eyes of others.

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Docking Paychecks for Politics

The mighty Service Employees International Union (SEIU) plans to spend some $150 million in this year's election, most of it to get Barack Obama and other Democrats elected. Where'd they get that much money?

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That's a question the Departments of Labor and Justice are being asked to investigate by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Specifically, the labor watchdog group wants Justice to query a new SEIU policy that appears to coerce local workers into funding the parent union's national political priorities.

A third of Muslim students back killings

Radicalism and support for sharia is strong in British universities
Abul Taher

ALMOST a third of British Muslim students believe killing in the name of Islam can be justified, according to a poll.
The study also found that two in five Muslims at university support the incorporation of Islamic sharia codes into British law.

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The report was criticised by the country’s largest Muslim student body, Fosis

McCain: 'Wall Street Is The Villain'

July 27, 2008 1:28 PM

Lindsey Ellerson
ABC News' Mary Bruce reports:

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blamed Wall Street this weekend for the failing economy. "I think that Wall Street is the villain in the things that happened in the subprime lending crisis and other areas where investigations and possible prosecution is going on," McCain said in an exclusive "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos.

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"We could go out and ask people -- the smartest people in America, maybe somebody like Jack Welch or John Chambers or Meg Whitman,

Artificial pancreas just years away

By Maggie Fox,

Healthand Science Editor

BETHESDA, Maryland, July 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Researchers working on an artificial pancreas believe they are just a few years away from a nearly carefree way for people with diabetes to monitor blood and inject insulin as needed.

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Such a mechanical pancreas could greatly reduce the need for fingersticks and injections of insulin that diabetics must now endure several times a day,

'Heightened Alert'

Exclusive: Major Events on the Horizon Prompt a Surge in Anti-Terror Efforts
By PIERRE THOMAS

July 28, 2008

Security experts point to next month's Olympics as evidence that high-profile events attract threats of terrorism, like the one issued this past weekend by a Chinese Muslim minority group that warned of its intent to attack the Games.

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Anti-terror officials in the U.S. cite this summer and fall's lineup of two major political parties' conventions, November's general election and months of transition into a new presidential administration

Tom Hanks hires gunman.

New York, July 28

(ANI): Tom Hanks has hired a pistol-packing security guard to patrol his posh Sun Valley getaway to keep the constructor’s crew away from his estate. According to reports last month, the two times Oscar winning actor has been engrossed in money battle with Storey Construction, which built his home in 2002.

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“It’’s as hazardous a condition as you can have. The other day, the guard tripped and fell on a piece of plywood with his gun on him. It could have gone off and had fatal consequences.

Who Is Funding Barack Obama?

Paul R. Hollrah

July 28, 2008

In a July 10 installment of “The World According to Barack,” we discussed Obama’s phenomenal fundraising juggernaut. Obama boasts of having built a contributor base of 1.5 million people, each contributing $5, $10, $20...or, as Obama assures us, “whatever they could afford.” Please do the math with me.

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But the numbers don’t add up. Obama attended grammar school in Indonesia where they may have taught an archaic brand of mathematics, but $198.75 million dollars cannot be contributed by 1.47 million people in “$5, $10, or $20” amounts. Each of those 1.47 million people would have had to contribute, on average, $135 to create a pool of $198.75 million

Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: July 27, 2008

POSTVILLE, Iowa — When federal immigration agents raided the kosher meatpacking plant here in May and rounded up 389 illegal immigrants, they found more than 20 under-age workers, some as young as 13.

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Now those young immigrants have begun to tell investigators about their jobs. Some said they worked shifts of 12 hours or more, wielding razor-edged knives and saws to slice freshly killed beef. Some worked through the night, sometimes six nights a week.

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action

Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

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The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

Spare the Rod or Swing the Paddle: How to Punish Students

By CLOE SHASHA and MARCUS BARAM

It may be a declining practice in American schools, frowned upon by most child psychologists, but school officials in one Georgia county are reinstituting corporal punishment for students who misbehave. When school resumes after summer vacation, principals in Twiggs County will be allowed to use paddles to spank students who don't respond to detention or other forms of discipline, reaffirming a policy that had lain dormant in the county since 2006.

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The Complaint Against Obama Filed With the Illinois Bar

By: Jim Geraghty

Some anonymous figure has filed a complaint with the Illinois Bar Association, charging Obama with:
a) making a statement of material fact in connection with a bar application that the applicant knows to be false;

b) committing a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's fitness to practice law;

c) engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation;

d) engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; and

e) engaging in conduct which brings the courts or the legal profession into disrepute.
The complaint charges Obama with not admitting his drug use on his application.

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Almost epochal, &c.

By Jay Nordlinger

As regular readers know, I am not a fan of Al Sharpton. In fact, I am a great non-fan. I don’t even like the new, improved, cuddlier, non-murder-inciting Sharpton.

But earlier this week, something important, almost epochal, happened.

He demonstrated against the Cuban government — particularly over its treatment of black political prisoners.

I cannot overemphasize how unusual and amazing this is. This represents a major break in an ugly historical pattern.

For 50 years, American black leaders have been among the biggest supporters of the Communist dictatorship.

There are reasons for this — bad ones, but reasons.

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Stop Honorcide

By Jamie Glazov

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Linda Ahmed, one of the founders of Muslims Against Sharia. She is also co-chair of the new campaign Stop Honorcide, launched on Mother's Day 2008 on behalf of victims of honor killings.

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Ahmed: As you probably know, honor killings or honorcides are common in non-Western cultures. Even fairly westernized countries like Turkey have a huge honorcide problem. When non-Westerners move to the Western countries, they bring with them their traditions, honorcide being one of those "traditions".
Unfortunately Western media is downplaying honorcide problem in the West for fear of offending immigrant populations. You don't hear names like Amina & Sarah Said, Aqsa Perves, Morsal Obeidi, or Hatin Surucu on evening news.

U.S. government: We know parenting better than you

By Chelsea Schilling

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems.

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The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan

For Romney, now's the time to sweat

Peter S. Canellos

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney is a shrewd businessman, known for his cautious approach to the nerve-rattling takeover business. Romney's colleagues even came up for a name for what happened when Romney's inner worries began to ruffle his carefully groomed appearance - "pitting," for when the armpits of his expensive blue shirts would start to darken from perspiration.

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Romney's decision to formally reclassify his loans as contributions - a seemingly small bureaucratic gesture - removes a deceptively large obstacle to his vice presidential nomination.

In front of local restaurants, fed-up Christians protest company's support of same-sex marriage

By Bob Unruh

"McDonalds should focus on food quality and safety issues instead of attacking the values held by the majority of people worldwide. Marriage between a man and a woman is the norm throughout the world. McDonalds' personal attack against those who support the traditional definition of marriage, while siding with a narrow group that promotes a radical redefinition, shows that company executives are out to lunch. McDonalds might as well change their signs to read 'billions and billions insulted,'" said Mathew Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel.

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Why Democrats don't want to lower gas prices

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.WASHINGTON – A Democratic senator on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee inadvertently explained why her colleagues have no intention of ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling or increasing the areas open for exploration and production – no matter how popular the idea might be with gas prices soaring.

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Cantwell, explained Democrats don't want to increase supplies of oil and gasoline because they want to wean Americans off of petroleum products.

Romney: A Mistake for McCain

By Dick Morris

You've probably heard the story about the tycoon who wanted to bring out a new kind of dog food.
He spent lavishly. He hired the best marketing person, the top PR firm, the best ad agency, the No. 1 packaging expert, the most powerful distributor -- but the sales were flat after six months.
He summoned his consultants to a meeting and asked why the food wasn't selling. "The dogs won't eat it," was the answer that came back.

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And so it is with Mitt Romney. Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries, the dogs won't eat it.

McCain vs. Muslim Radicals

By Robert Spencer

Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain, said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”

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Bush proposes rules on oil shale development

By Patty Henetz

The Bush administration on Tuesday released proposed rules administering commercial oil shale development on public lands in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to provide "critical rules of the road" for investors. The rules would govern lease management and royalty payments should extracting kerogen from rock for further refining into fuel ever prove economically feasible - an open question given the likelihood of carbon taxes, lack of available Colorado River water and a host of environmental protection restrictions. The rules proposed by the Department of the Interior are part of an election-year push by Republicans to support development of oil shale, which a Rand Corp. study last year said could yield as much as 800 billion barrels of oil.

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Myth of the Stupid Voter

Rick Moran

The unspoken premise made by many of us is that the American voter is stupid and easily misled. This is a prevalant attitude taken by both sides but especially liberals who have been whining for years that conservatives have "fooled" the American people into voting against their economic interests.

Well, guess what.

It shouldn't surprise you that the American people are a lot smarter than most of us give them credit for. They may not pay as close attention to the race as some of our readers and writers on this site, but they apparently are smart enough to see a pig in the poke when it's offered to them.

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7 People Who Cheated Death

By Son Tran

We all like to think of ourselves as badasses. But what would you really do if faced with death? How would you react to being dropped out of a plane without a parachute, or buried alive? After crapping your pants, that is.
Well these people survived all of that and more, slapping Death in the face and telling it to go make them a sandwich.

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McCain's bravery, as seen by one man imprisoned with him

"Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president." That was retired Gen. Wesley Clark's condescending assessment of John McCain's military service. Clark's words have great weight because he was speaking as a key political/military advisor to Barack Obama.

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I met John McCain in a POW camp in Vietnam. He told me his father and grandfather read history every evening. Since our release, I have done the same. From my study of history I know what we need in a leader.

Pelosi & Co. enabled Bush’s failures

Melanie Scarborough

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently pronounced George W. Bush a “total failure,” which is like Jesse Jackson criticizing someone for not controlling his tongue. While it is true that the majority of the American people have lost confidence in Bush (his approval rating has fallen to 29 percent), their opinion of Pelosi and her ilk is even worse. Congress now has the lowest approval rating ever recorded: nine percent.

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That may be because Americans understand what Pelosi hopes they don’t: A president can fail the American people only if Congress allows it.

Why Jesse Jackson Hates Obama

By SHELBY STEELE

Mr. Jackson was always a challenger. He confronted American institutions (especially wealthy corporations) with the shame of America's racist past and demanded redress. He could have taken up the mantle of the early Martin Luther King (he famously smeared himself with the great man's blood after King was shot), and argued for equality out of a faith in the imagination and drive of his own people. Instead -- and tragically -- he and the entire civil rights establishment pursued equality through the manipulation of white guilt.

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Mr. Obama's great political ingenuity was very simple: to trade moral leverage for gratitude. Give up moral leverage over whites, refuse to shame them with America's racist past, and the gratitude they show you will constitute a new form of black power. They will love you for the faith you show in them.

Africans in Beijing harassed as Olympics approach

GEOFFREY YORK

Police forcing bar owners to pledge not to admit blacks, Hong Kong paper reports.

BEIJING -- Chinese police officials have forced some Beijing bar owners to sign secret pledges promising to prohibit blacks from entering their bars during the Olympics next month, a Hong Kong newspaper says.
The police denied the report yesterday, and most bars denied any knowledge of the pledges. But many African residents of Beijing say they are facing harassment from police and discrimination from bars as the Olympics approach.

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George and Laura Bush to divorce after election because of Condi Rice?

According to the supermarket tabloid, George and Laura Bush hardly ever speak to each other. George feels very unhappy and does not want Laura to leave him. However, the newspaper wrote, Laura is tired of everything; she is determined to live her own life.

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The newspaper believes that George . W. Bush has been having an affair with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

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Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.
Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers.

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Controversy Over Proof that there is no “Climate Crisis”

Roger F. Gay

The current issue of Physics and Society contains a mathematical proof by Christopher Monckton that there is no “climate crisis.” (report) One might expect intense scientific debate to follow. The opening rounds however, have centered on “discourteous” behavior by administrators of the organization behind the publication.

It’s gotten personal.

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Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win

rasmussenreports.com

The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help Obama with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.

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FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

In questioned document analysis there are several methods for detecting forgeries – the most basic of which is to conduct a side by side evaluation of known good samples to compare against the questioned one and to use an alternate light source to highlight the changes in the color and density of the inks and paper. In the case at hand there are no questioned physical documents to examine so I used the same basic techniques modified for the digital age for use in computer forensic analysis.

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Conservation Nation

By Steven Milloy

A reporter, saying the energy debate will continue into the next administration, told President Bush that "one thing nobody debates is that if Americans use less energy the current supply/demand equation would improve. Why have you not sort of called on Americans to drive less and to turn down the thermostat?"
Bush responded: "They’re smart enough to figure out whether they’re going to drive less or not … it’s interesting what the price of gasoline has done, is it caused people to drive less. That’s why they want smaller cars, they want to conserve. But the consumer is plenty bright. … The marketplace works.

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O'S HEALTH RX: COVER ILLEGALS

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MC GANN

DEMOCRATS' single most important domes tic proposal - universal health insurance - may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details.
Obama has said, proudly and often, "I am going to give health insurance to 47 million Americans who are now without coverage." But are they "Americans?"

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Changing Times: A legal marriage is a legal marriage - even gay ones

By James G. Wright

Few days pass without someone taking offense at something we do here. It's not that we go out of our way to be offensive. In fact, we hope to avoid it. But in the news business, we try hard to reflect the big and small truths of life, and sometimes that ruffles feathers.Today we're doing something that might trouble some folks.

In the Family Life section you'll see a wedding announcement for James Robert Tidmarsh and Ryan Frank Jensen of Twin Falls.Let's not beat around the bush here. They're both men. They're from Idaho. They're registered at Wal-Mart.

In the past, the Times-News segregated same-sex marriage announcements, placing them under the heading "Celebrations" rather than putting them with weddings. This was a compromise that allowed us to acknowledge the event without giving it equal status with the nuptials of those displaying a variety of genders.

Moreover, Idaho doesn't allow same-sex marriages.

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What You Can't Say

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that.

If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.

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20 Baby Products Great For Traumatizing Infants

By Ian Cheesman

Raising a baby is a tough gig. "Experts" declare at every turn that the wrong decisions on nutrition, napping or enrichment will render your child emotionally barren, homeless, sexually deviant and, worst of all, short. It's no wonder child rearing products are such a huge industry. Here are 20 products perfect for developing little tykes ... into adults who want to murder their parents.

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Marriage will be on ballot

By Bob Unruh

The state Supreme Court in California is allowing voters this November to consider a plan to define marriage as one man and one woman, a move that could overturn that same court's ruling in May that same-sex duos should be recognized as "married."
Jennifer Kerns, communications director for Protect Marriage.com, which collected more than 1.1 million signatures on petitions in support of the vote, confirmed that the high court today simply dismissed the pending challenge to having Proposition 8 on the ballot.
"Obviously, the Supreme Court decision delivers a significant blow to our opponents," she told WND. "It does send a very strong message to our opponents that they won't be able to evade democracy which is what they've been trying to do by going to the court system.

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Bank unduly scapegoated

By Michael Graham

In Congress, Republicans and Democrats are pushing Barney Frank’s $300 billion boondoggle to underwrite bad loans given to worse customers.

On Beacon Hill, Gov. Deval Patrick pushed for a $250 million bailout for people who borrowed more than they could afford. (Sen. Barack Obama has a similar $10 billion idea he must have “borrowed” from Patrick).

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“Hey, hey, ho ho! Greedy banks have got to go!”