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What about the OCC ruling?

…OCC’s mission to ensure a stable and competitive national banking system. The four objectives are: To ensure the safety and soundness of the national banking system. To foster competition by…

DOLB’s Punditry on Obama’s speech

…divorce successful. Has it become my mission accomplish moment? I heard this: “And we will expand our commitment to charter schools. but as a father when I say that responsibility…

Peterson is non-partisan??

…group’s president and CEO David Walker for a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday to talk about the mission and ad campaign. A spokeswoman for the foundation said the…

Is Obama Echoing Bush on Social Security?

…as a Transformer. To see the difference we need to start with the mission statement of the 2001 Commission. Which is below the fold. A link to their full (13…

Word to be Eliminated: "Symbolize"

…Britney Spears’ [sic] Guide to Semiconductor Physics.* Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Symbolism Writ Large, in a manner to shame Christo himself: US opens world’s largest foreign mission in…

Report confirms "Gulf War Syndrome"

…has devastated families. Now is the time to restore the funding cuts that have been made in the Veterans Administration. Our mission has to be to ensure that these veterans…

Iraq is won?

Sent by reader CoRev Though he’d been on a mission all day and was about to drop, Mike Yon just called from Iraq to let me know that the war…

Story for George Bush, Hank Paulson, and Ben Bernanke

…ties up capital by preventing willing, responsible buyers with money in their pockets from buying homes. This is the very predictable result of the bail-out. Mission Accomplished. _____________________________________ by cactus…

One Alaskan’s take on the Palin business

…after Sen. McCain sent his flacks up to our small state on August 29? They came with a mission to make America believe a Republican-initiated investigation, started with a unanimous…