Check out what Nolan Nawrocki had to say about each team’s NFL Draft.
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The “flip-this-house” mentality caught fire in the Vegas Desert as hard as anywhere.  Now the effects of ridiculous property speculation are starting to show themselves.  Foreclosures have only just begun.  Be on the look out for a housing-led recession sometime in late-2007 or early-2008.
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With the NFL Draft two days away, it’s about that time to release our 2nd Annual ranking of the top 13 prospects in this year’s class. Last year’s rankings saw RB Reggie Bush, DE Mario Williams and QB Vince Young taking the 1, 2, and 3 spots, respectively, in our rankings. Subsequently Bush was taken [...]

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Olbermann also expressed outrage at Rudy Giuliani’s comments in New Hampshire the other day about not voting Republican, and specifically for Giuliani, will result in another 9/11 attack.
Kieth Olbermann defines Giuliani’s statements as:
…terrorism itself, dressed up as counter-terrorism.
Kieth Olbermann opens his message with:

Since some indeterminable hour between the final dousing of the pyre at The [...]

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Rudy Giuliani Makes Fascist Fearmongering Statements:
Yesterday Rudy Giuliani said:
if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
Read the rest here.
What nonsense. [...]

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
        - Theodore Roosevelt

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Check out PFW’s analysis.

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Good article here about guns and the right to protect yourself:

People are beginning to notice what research has shown for years: Multiple-victim public shootings keep occurring in places where guns are already banned. Forty states have broad right-to-carry laws, but even within these states it is the “gun-free zones,” not other public places, where the [...]

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Parabolic rises are unsustainable upward moves in market prices (as an example, see the NASDAQ chart circa 1997-2002).
Marty Chenard provides an interesting look at the Chinese stock market. Click here to read more.
A shocking retracement of the meteoric rise of the past two years could send waves through the global equity indices.

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Mike Shedlock offers a well-conceived article highlighting the common sense associated with allowing borrowers and lenders who took on too much risk and faltered to take responsibility for their personal risky actions going awry. There is absolutely no reason taxpayer money should be given to individuals who stretched themselves too thin trying to get [...]

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