Little Rock One thing that shouldn’t get past us in this current Federal Reserve program of bailouts and guarantees for Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase is glaring gap in oversight. Bear Stearns and its investment banking activity and crises management is getting dessert without having to pay for dinner. Their activity was not regulated …
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Bigger and Better
New Orleans There have been headlines all around the country based on our participation in a joint announcement at the Take Back America Conference in Washington the other day of a “loose coalition of liberal groups,” as one report called it, announcing that more than $150 million would be spent on voter registration in …
More Than a Speech
New Orleans There are precious few transcending moments in politics, so that whenever a milestone is reached, it is worth noting. Such indeed may be the case with Senator Barack Obama’s speech about race and religion yesterday. In the Omni/Shoreham hotel in Washington yesterday, Stewart Acuff, organizing director for the AFL-CIO, which has taken no …