Samm's Blog

My father, who was born in 1924 and died nine years ago, often told me a story about a group of somber looking black-suited men who delivered foreclosure papers to his grandfather's farmhouse. The monthly mortgage payment was three dollars, and it was months overdue. Their belongings were packed up, tears were shed, and the farm was turned over to the bank. My father was five or six years ol...

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In all my years as a parent, a corporate executive, an activist or a candidate, I have never received a communication such as the one that arrived on Wednesday from State Representative Rick Kriseman. What's even more remarkable about being on the receiving end of a letter - which can only be described as "attacking" - is that I can't even recall one time where Representative Kriseman and I have...

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Looks like our tax dollars are going to be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, as the debt bubble from speculation, greed, lack of regulation and Congressional oversight are grinding together in a perfect, and catastrophic, storm.

[Robert Reich's blog](http://robertreich.b...

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Tragically, a Democratic led Congress voted to give the President new warrant less eavesdropping powers and a get out of jail free card to the telecommunications companies who hooked up the National Security Agency to our private conversations. All lawsuits concerning the illegal invasion of privacy will now be discarded.

The [ACLU](http://www.aclu.org/...

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