Former Clinton delegate to vote for McCain

A friend of mine on the McCain campaign sent me this article - I find it interesting. There are a smattering of articles about Clinton delegates who are saying they won’t vote for Obama and plan to vote for McCain. These defections come as Howard Dean and others become even more shrill in their claims [...]

Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Detainees at GTMO

By a 5 to 4 vote that brought strongly worded and remorseful dissents from the Court’s conservative justices, the majority held that an alternative procedure designed by the Administration and Congress was inadequate to insure that the detainees “receive their day in court”. While all Supreme Court cases are necessarily historic - as they become [...]

Housing Crisis evaporates $6 trillion in personal wealth

Los Angeles (LATIMES): A Washington think tank is warning that housing prices are falling at an accelerating level, destroying wealth at a pace that will cost the average homeowner $85,000 in lost wealth this year alone.
The projections by the Center for Economic and Policy Research are based on the numbers in Tuesday’s Case-Shiller home price [...]

Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop?

Eroding confidence stings bank shares
By Carter Dougherty

Monday, March 17, 2008
FRANKFURT:
Volatile markets and worried policy makers on Monday offered clear evidence that the months-long financial crisis linked to the U.S. mortgage market has turned into an acute crisis of confidence in the global banking system.
Stunned over the weekend by the emergency [...]