If Obama wins, who will be on his team--and who should be?
There'll be a crush of cameras at the front door of the White House on January 20 as scores of media outlets scramble to record the moment that the new president walks in. But, wait--who're those people who'll be sliding in quietly behind him? They're the ones who'll spend the next four years whispering in the president's ear, sitting in strategy sessions, running presidential councils, filling agency slots, and pulling the levers of executive power.
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Harry Truman said, "No man should be allowed to be president who doesn't understand hogs." That's never been more true than it will be for the man or woman who walks into the White House on January 20, 2009.
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SPECULATORS AND OUR FOOD: EIEIO!
Hedge-fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators--the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse--have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. EIEIO!
Speculators have long messed with farmers by artificially manipulating prices on everything from corn to soybeans.... [read more]