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Is Sharia-Compliant Finance Alive and Well at AIG?

February 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

After you read the excerpt below from Frank Gaffney’s piece on Sharia-compliant finance published today at BigGovernment.com, you’ll begin to understand the seriousness of the story and why I designed the new faux logo for AIG (above):
It appears that, through it’s 77.9% control of AIG’s equity and voting rights, the NYFed “sought to accomplish an [...]

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Nuggets of News Cause Blogger to Pause

June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Surfing through the morning news headlines, I found some nuggets of news that caused me to pause for a moment and thought they might have a similar effect on you:

NO CHRYSLER DEALERS LEFT IN DETROIT:  Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit’s East Side stopped selling Chrysler products, one of the 789 franchises Chrysler Group [...]

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Amendment to Block Health Care Rationing Fails

May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Foster Friess
Guest Blogger
The idea of a government-run HMO proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrat leaders should scare us all.  Further cause for concern stems from $1 billion of taxpayer dollars shoehorned into the stimulus to fund research into the comparative effectiveness of medicine.  Referred to as “Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER),” Sally Pipes writes, [...]

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Scandal at Saint Louis Brewery — Or Not?

May 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments

In an investigative report that aired last night on NBC affiliate KSDK Channel 5, reporter Leisa Zigman tried to stoke the fires of anger and discontent that have been brewing in St. Louis ever since the 2008 purchase of Anheuser-Busch by Belgium brewer InBev.  She went so far as to compare the actions of executives [...]

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Thanks to ACORN, It’s A Different World

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Written by Phil Gremillion, a man described as “a businessman, farmer, inventor and Cajun who lives in Lafayette (La.),” a commentary published today in The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette, La., follows perfectly on the heels of this headline:
Wake me up: It’s a different world these days
Gremillion covers a number of topics in his commentary about [...]

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