The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

(Howard Dean) is proving that the Internet is a better, cheaper, and faster way to raise money than the old glad-handing of special interests and fat cat donors. He's also about to demonstrate that the Internet is a better place to spend campaign dollars than are TV stations and media time buys. The fact that Internet communications is free makes one-on-one retail politics more effective, more rapid, and less costly than mass communication.

I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that fundamentally all Democrats are Democrats.

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.