Real Estate in the 21st Century

  Just so you will know who is doing the talking: The Economic Policy Institute’s mission is to inform and empower individuals to seek solutions that ensure broadly shared prosperity and opportunity. About EPI. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank, was create...

From Snopes.com: "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."     President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998. "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We w...

From: MSNBC Illinois officials upset with FEMA denial of disaster aid FEMA issued its decision on the major disaster declaration for individual assistance for Gallatin, Randolph, Saline, Union and Williamson counties in a letter dated March 10 to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. The state's request, cove...

From MSN: The Netherlands, long known for its liberal tolerance of "soft" drugs, is moving toward a more restrictive policy. One change involves banning the sale of hashish, a move the Dutch parliament is likely to approve. A loophole -- the drugs aren't technically legal but their use is "permit...

From MSN: We're sure there's no subtext in this at all. A registered Republican from New Mexico has converted someone close to him to the Democrats' side: his pet black Labrador. "He wanted to prove how easy it was to register his dog so the registered Republican signed his dog up as a Democrat,"...

By msnbc.com news services KABUL, Afghanistan -- Twelve people were killed Friday during protests in Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Quran at a NATO base, officials said, despite Thursday's written apology from Barack Obama. What do you mean a written note is not enough? Afghanistan...

  Guess we will never hear the end of this type of talk:   By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer   “All of a sudden after the 2008 election, these (voter ID laws) miraculously appear,” said Rep. Frederica Wilson, D- Fla. at a recent anti-voter ID event at the Capitol. “Why? Because we h...

I was cruisng the web and came across an article By EDWARD MORRISSEY, The Fiscal Times.  He made some valid points about the new Federal Budget that President Obama sent to Congress.  Although we have heard all about the attributes of the budget, we have been waiting for a spell bound media to pi...

By Kari Huus, msnbc.com Since the death of Canadian skier Sarah Burke in January, fans and supporters from around the world have donated over $300,000 – more than enough to cover the massive U.S. medical bill generated by efforts to save her. The outpouring of grief for Burke and the influx of fu...

Here are some folks that have provided fundraising for Obama: Jon Corzine, former governor of New Jersey and former chairman of bankrupt MF Global Holdings Still can't find the billion dollars, wonder if it is with Obama? Mark T. Gallogly is cofounder and managing principal of Centerbridge Partne...