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QUID PRO QUO
Oct 01, 2009; ... THE QUID: Since James B. Lockhart ill was appointed in 2006, by childhood friend and Yale frat brother George W. Bush, he has directed the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. When the housing market went bust, his ...
JUST THE FACTS
Oct 01, 2009; ... 74,000 number of soldiers returning from Iraq between 2003 and 2004 who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 38 percent of male soldiers who have been ...
Rural America Needs You
Oct 01, 2009; ... FIFTY YEARS AGO, when I grew up in a small Iowa town, diversified family farms were the norm, local economies were thriving and the middle class was expanding. Then a new weapon was launched in the Cold Warcheap food - and the landscape of my youth was plowed under. The horrors of an ...
letters
Oct 01, 2009; ... Support Zelaya The military coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, was a setback for democracy ("The Honduran Connection," September 2009). I sincerely hope that the United States was not involved in anyway. However, considering the close relationship between the U.S. and ...
Capitalist Health Insurance for All
Oct 01, 2009; ... HERE'S WHAT CORPORATIONS know, but don't want you to find out: Private insurance is for suckers. Armies of healthcare industry flacks, lobbyists and bought-and-paid-for legislators rant that nonprofit, public insurance is a slippery slope to socialist hell, will limit your choice of ...