"I still recall, as though it were a dream, thinking that someone was lifting and dropping my bed as the explosions jolted me awake, and I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside. The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS." - Mark Horne
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NPR today basically put out propaganda for Obama on Ayers and made readers think that the Public Safety officer in Alaska had been asked to fire a trooper, even when he has repeatedly insisted he was never asked such a thing. - Mark Horne
While I still can't stand McCain's sanctimony, the fact is that this is simply nothing compared to Ayers/Rezko and others. McCain should have been aggressive about this a long time ago. - Mark Horne
"Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.
So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions." --so the economy was literally screwed. - Mark Horne
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