Year: 2009

Politics by JT

Kinky Friedman is Rick Perry’s Big Texas Nightmare

Kinky Friedman sends Rick Perry a gift Kinky Friedman sent Gov. Rick Perry a set of training wheels last week in response to the governor breaking his collarbone in a biking accident. “The little note said, ‘Sorry you got hurt. Too bad they don’t make training wheels for a legislative session,’” Friedman said in an […]

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Post-Scandal, John Edwards Finds a Quieter Purpose

By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 18, 2009 John Edwards says he has few illusions. He knows the picture many Americans hold of him is not a pretty one. He also knows that even before he was engulfed in tabloid scandal, his electoral appeal had limits. And he believes that President Obama, […]

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Big Banks Get Big Time Changes

Jun 17, 7:13 PM (ET) By JIM KUHNHENN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) – From simple home loans to Wall Street’s most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new “rules of the road” for the nation’s battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama. Aimed at […]

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