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More Subprime Analysis

By Karoli March 30, 2008 Domestic Policy No Comments

An excellent post on the relationship between the ballooning interest rates, mortgage defaults and adverse selection: …when the major cause of large-scale defaults is not the fecklessness of the borrowers…

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Will Work For Health Insurance; Already Do

By Karoli February 25, 2008 Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

Credit: Mort Gerberg, Huffington Post 2/25/2008 This was me, self-employed and uninsured, until a kind employer hired me to work a second full-time job and now I now work two…

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Fear Itself

By Karoli February 22, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy No Comments

More here and here. Sign the petition here. Technorati Tags: FISA, fear, telecom immunity

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True Patriot Acts

By Karoli February 15, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy No Comments

Standing on the ashes of the man, originally uploaded by herby_fr. Today’s attack on democracy in the United States began with George W. Bush’s efforts to strongarm the House of…

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Taking the Hypocritic Oath

By Karoli February 14, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, Iraq No Comments

John McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, now endorses torture by voting against the waterboarding ban. Clinton supporter and former Clinton Special Counsel who has already declared for Hillary…

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Feingold on FISA

By Karoli February 1, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy No Comments

It’s 30 seconds long and says it all: H/T Crooks & Liars Technorati Tags: FISA, Feingold, telco, wiretap, privacy

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