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Your money is safe and the banking system is fine! That's why they're increasing emergency loans to banks by 50% this month. Dave: Hal, open the bank door please. Hal: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.

From tent cities and food rationing to $4 a gallon gas, you just want to shake your head and wonder what country we're living in. The housing market and all the banks associated with it are a house of cards. And the wind is blowing.

When I lived in Boston we used to say we had six seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter, more winter, and mud. It's a different kind of mud-filled season--as progressives we've been going through a rough period of political bickering.

When people grumble about not being able to do anything to resolve our political and economic problems, I like to say "Everyone can do something: lead, follow, support, teach, learn."

TB on planes: the newest excuse to restrict our civil liberties

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner tipped the scales 3-2 in a stunning blow to Republican attempts to steal yet another Ohio election via manipulating touch screen voting machines.

Wishing you all much joy, beauty, music, happiness, and hope.

Voters ejected a majority of the Potrero CA planning board in a recall election Tuesday, voicing strong opposition to the proposed private military training camp.

A parade of witnesses appeared this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee Gitmo hearing, broadcast on C-span, to explain how it ever got this far. Seton Hall Law Profesor Mark Denbeaux got things rolling by shooting down the myth of all those dangerous guys in Guantanamo captured on the battlefield by American soldiers: all one of him. Of the 759 Gitmo prisoners, nearly all were brought in by other governments or were unlucky enough to be sold into slavery captured by bounty hunters.

Staring at the open box of 750 jigsaw pieces, each individually wrapped in a piece of toilet paper and scotch tape, I knew I'd been had---but good---by my six younger siblings.