The operation resulted in 14 arrests, Arpaio announced during a late-afternoon news conference. During sweeps, deputies use minor traffic offenses as probable cause to make stops and question vehicle occupants about their legal status.
What will it take to get our troops out of Iraq? Those in power are reluctant to give conditions, but when they do and those conditions are met, the goal post is quietly moved.
This massive, centralized system would include personal data of 245 million license and ID cardholders nationwide. If a criminal could break just one state’s data security system, he would have access to the sensitive data retained by all 56 states a
He says as the Feds are busy worrying about “the big boys”—Fannie and Freddie—hundreds, maybe thousands, of smaller, regional banks will now realize they have no savior.
Is the Fed going to investigate Lehman? Paulson? Bernanke? Seriously, this is ridiculous. The financial institutions are getting hammered because they are undercapitalized by any rational measure. Earnings suck and are going to...
Mexico City police are investigating classified advertisements posted on the Internet by people offering their services as hired killers for as little as $6,000.
Nowhere mentioned in the accompanying 66-page handout were the additional $1.1 trillion of assets that New York-based Citigroup keeps off its books: trusts to sell mortgage-backed securities, financing vehicles to issue short-term debt and collateral
Barack Obama today pledged to increase US troops in Afghanistan by a third if he becomes president, sending 10,000 more to reinforce the 33,000 already there.
"I didn't think anything like this would happen," said retired teacher Charles Tengeri from Pasadena, who was first to emerge from the branch after withdrawing $171,000 -- about two-thirds of his life savings. "I withdrew as much a
I think we're in about the second inning." (That guess is not so dissimilar to that of a friend I call the "Lord of the Dark Matter," who says he doesn't know what inning it is but is sure it's going to be a double-header
Investors should avoid most financial companies because their shares will probably keep declining. "Stay away from these stocks....There's an awful lot of fires that need to be put out. I'm concerned about how we get them all out,'**
Comments from Lehman Brothers that beleaguered thrift Washington Mutual Inc. could see $26 billion in total losses from items on its balance sheet and struggling National City Corp. being forced to assert it is still creditworthy only added to the an
I noticed a line out of my local WAMU branch this morning. I then drove a few miles away and saw another branch with many people in line. I talked to someone there and they said the lines started before the bank opened and many people are sweeping th
Congressman Ron Paul reports on his fight with warmongers in Congress: House Congressional Resolution 362, which blockades Iran. All imports on petroleum will be blocked, and Iranians will be blocked from leaving the country. A blockade is an act of
We cannot drill and grow, drill and grow, drill and grow! We cannot keep taking on 2.2 million legal and illegal immigrants annually and expect to remain a viable or sustainable nation. Got water in Arizona? No! Got water in California? No! But
``They're ruining what has been one of the greatest economies in the world,'' Rogers said. Bernanke and Paulson ``are bailing out their friends on Wall Street but there are 300 million Americans that are going to have to pay for this.
Paulson now seems to be acting on the principle that as long as one is telling lies there is no additional harm in doing it with gusto. Otherwise it is very hard to explain how an "unlimited lending line"can possibly have "terms and co
Hundreds of militants stormed a remote military outpost in Afghanistan and briefly entered the base in a ferocious attack that left nine US soldiers dead, officials said Monday.
Bigelow Aerospace is dedicated to developing next-generation crewed space complexes to revolutionize space commerce and open up the final frontier to all of humanity. At Bigelow Aerospace, we're building the future today! (MSM coverage?... WHY NO
Read more at http://www.ohgizmo.com and http://www.virgingalactic.com (And how much of this have you heard from the MSM? Civilian Space travel is about to be as common as Extreme Travel Cruises,... and I mean soon, like within a year)
The Telegraph reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently told one of his closest friends that "in three months' time it will be a different Middle East." Yes, and also, perhaps, a very different America…
Officials briefed on the plan said Congress could be asked to extend the total line of credit to the institutions to $300 billion. The actions, which could provide an overwhelming surge of capital to the companies, were the 2nd time in 4 months
The two groups together account for more than half of America’s $12,000 billion of outstanding mortgages. A failure of Freddie and Fannie would drive up mortgage payments significantly as a crucial source of financing dried up and would have a domino
Much of the private money that once surged into the mortgage industry has fled in a panicked horde, leaving most of the responsibility for financing American homes to the government-sponsored Fannie and Freddie. By the first three months of this year