Prime Loans Going Delinquent at Record Rate
• HousingWire.comThe Q4 to Q1 change in severe delinquencies strongly favors prime borrowers, for example, with severe DQs increasing by 19.2 percent for prime and 13.7 percent for subprime borrowers.
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D.C. Neighborhoods Being Targeted for Military-style Police Checkpoints
• Washington Post"...In certain areas, we need to go beyond the normal methods of policing," Fenty (D) said at a news conference announcing the action. "We're going to go into an area and completely shut it down to prevent shootings and the sale of
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Going Hungry in America: Failed Leadership from Top Down
Frosty WooldridgeWith 28 million Americans on food stamps, we continue importing 182,000 immigrants every 30 days. With California now in a drought crisis and rationing water, they continue adding 1,600 people daily according to www.capsweb.org. The burning questio
Senate Votes on Climate Security Act Friday
• MondorebThe Senate votes tomorrow on a particularly onerous piece of legislation: The Climate Security Act. It will affect neither climate, nor security. It will, however, affect your pocketbook in the confiscatory way we've come to expect from Congress.
June 6 1944, D-Day: Video Tribute to the American Spirit
• RidesAPaleHorseTwo video shorts that provide an educational look at what happened on 64 years ago on the beaches of Normandy.
VICTORY in NUECES COUNTY! County GOP hands over convention minutes after legal battle.
• Dennis RodenbeckThe legal battle to view public documents has been upheld by the 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi, Texas. While Mr. Bertuzzi, the current Republican County Chair of Nueces County in Texas was happy to comply after the ruling, he had stonewall
The Colbert Report - Bob Barr the Libertarian Party candidate for President
• Comedy Central"We Libertarian leaning Republicans"
Home Equity Falling at Record Pace
• Calculatedrisk.blogspot.comWith prices now falling - and expected to continue to fall - the percent homeowner equity will probably decline rapidly in the coming quarters.
Nev. Republicans Announce Date to Finish Convention, Local Man says Too Late
• KTVN Channel 2 RenoGet your popcorn ready to watch the fight. This is gonna be good.
NV Republican Party Argues with Its Own Delegates
• TV4 KRNV Reno, NevadaNevada Republican Convention still in contention
Phase 2 is finally released
• Senate Intelligence CommitteeFinally, the report is released on the pre-war intelligence, and other events which led to the April 2003 invasions of Iraq. Like any government document, lots of redactions! I'm so shocked
Rootin' Tootin' Recruitin'
• Catholic Peace FellowshipA 17-year-old was taken from her grandmother's house in East Chicago by National Guard personnel under threat of arrest if she did not report for boot camp. She was trying to pass her junior year, ... and she is not old enough to retain a lawyer.
How the Media Abandoned Iraq
• AlternetThe editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it
Enough with the lies about Scientology. As John Lennon said, "gimme some truth"!
• The Real Truth About ScientologyDid you know that there is technology in Scientology that has been proven totally effective when applied properly which is the technology of doing a proper investigation? Do you think that might possibly be of benefit to the 911 truth movement or in
German government backs enhanced surveillance
• IHTDespite strong criticism from the opposition and even its own coalition partners, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreed to give Germany's police forces greater powers to monitor homes, telephones and private computers, maintaining that
Assassination Art shut down by police and secret service
• NY TimesNew York City police detectives and Secret Service agents had shut down the exhibition, and building workers had quickly covered over the inflammatory title with large sheets of brown paper and blue masking tape. The gallery is across the street from
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
• APResearchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
FBI: Police aren't tattling on you often enough
• USA TodayState and local police officers fail to notify federal authorities about encounters with possible terrorism suspects up to 10 times a day, a senior FBI official said. Police are asked to contact the center when routine computerized background checks
Texas justice of the peace sued over paddlings
• APThe family alleges that Garza told Zurita to strike his 14-year-old stepdaughter repeatedly on the buttocks in open court. It says the judge told Zurita the girl would be fined $500 if she wasn't paddled.
9/11 families excluded from Guantanamo hearing
• ReutersThe invitation to attend Thursday's arraignment at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba was rescinded when the New York Daily News revealed that lone invitee was an ardent defender of President Bush who spoke in support of his administration at
Mercury teeth fillings may harm some: U.S. FDA
• ReutersSilver-colored metal dental fillings contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit.
Ed McMahon fighting foreclosure
• APMcMahon is nearly $644,000 behind in payments on a $4.8 million mortgage loan he got in 2005.
Farm Wars
California Spraying
Barbara PetersonI publicly request that the individuals who are funding this aerial spraying project all stand unmasked and unprotected in the direct firing line of the pesticide spray, at the moment of occurrence.
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
• APResearchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.
Clinton to end run, endorse Obama on Saturday
• RawstoryNew York Sen. Hillary Clinton will drop out of the presidential race and cede the Democratic nomination to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the end of this week, per an official statement from her campaign.
Systematic Legal Plunder is One Sure Sign of the End of the Republic
• MondorebOne sign that a republic is near the end of its life is systematic legal plunder; or, in the words of Fredrick Bastiat, “if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Scientology - Anonymous CyberWars: The YouTube Battle
• GinnRecently DBKP wrote of the Cyber-War being waged between the mysterious group known as Anonymous and the Church of Scientology. While looking for Scientology's take on the matter, we came across the remnants of one of their battles--on YouTube.
Accused $787,000 thief to cops: Arrest real criminals
• East Valley TribuneAdan Betancio Guerrero, 36, of Mesa is accused of stealing someone else’s Social Security number and using it to purchase two homes and two vehicles. The records stated Betancio racked up $787,000 in loans and has tried to get a job using the victim’
Judge tosses school official's lawsuit against Fox News
• APA federal judge has thrown out a school superintendent's lawsuit against Fox News, saying the cable news channel acted unprofessionally but without malice when anchors on Fox and Friends reported a parody story about ham as fact last year.
Federal Judge Gives Ok for Blackwater to Open Site in San Diego
• Fox6.com/newsAccording to the San Diego City Attorney's Office, Huff's ruling allowing Blackwater to use an Otay Mesa warehouse without completing all city permit procedures denies the city its land-use authority.
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