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Seriously, folks, you can’t make this stuff up. WASHINGTON (AP) – Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s. How dare McCain actually try [...]

It’s a good 20 pages long, but do yourself a favor and read this transcript from NPR about “The Giant Pool of Money.” It is an excellent primer on the convoluted and volatile consequences we made by creating a commodity-trading system with housing loans. You will learn how this went from being just a housing [...]

Jan Wells: Remember Jimmy Carter? Yes, the country’s most memorable farmer-turned-president…more memorable for stirring the “racism” pot than anything presidential. In the 1970’s, he signed off on the Community Reinvestment Act; a law promoted by liberals, intended to encourage banks to make mortgage loans to low-income minorities. The law grew out of complaints that banks [...]

Barack Obama recently tried to tie some unseemly but out of context and half-quoted material from Rush Limbaugh to the McCain-Palin campaign. While Limbaugh has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth, I’ve read the transcripts, the Obama attack and the Limbaugh defense, and I have to say the Obama camp is way [...]

Jonah Goldberg on ESPN’s decision to honor Tommie Smith and John Carlos. Earlier this month, ESPN awarded Tommie Smith and John Carlos the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs — the sports network’s equivalent of the Oscars — for their once infamous, and now famous, black-power salutes from the medal platform at the 1968 [...]