(Short version here)
In the beginning:
The 30’s: Redlining- The practice of refusing loans or extending credit to bad areas. It was alleged to have been a racially motivated form of discrimination, as the areas usually marked undesirable or hazardous, were home to minorities. Below is an example of a map from the 1930’s:

The New Deal: Fannie Mae was [...]

(Do not bother arguing on the short version. If you wish to dispute the post, please see the long version.)
In the beginning:
The 30’s: Redlining - The practice of not giving loans or extending credit to bad areas.
The 70’s: Community Reinvestment Act - A 1977 act that was altered several times.

According to a United States Department of the [...]

 
Red Planet is so damn good.
 
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Source: Open Secrets.

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Neal Boortz, a former real estate lawyer, tells it like it is.
 

Between the Hillary Clintons, the Barney Franks and the RINOs in the Republican Party, the United States is heading toward socialism and socialism alone. TRN said months ago that we needed to put the tusks back on the elephant, that meant in spirit too, not just on the logo. This liberalism in conservative clothing must be [...]

Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy were caught on tape calling Sarah Palin’s candidacy “bullshit” and declaring the McCain campaign over.
It is heartbreaking that the woman who wrote the “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech has been infected by the liberal machine mind. Her half-assed apology and explanation is indicitve of the worst aspects of today’s [...]

The tusks are back on the elephant. Someone has been reading… (See original 5/28/08 post below logos)
Se Vita Privare no more. How about that reader’s prediction?

 Good. This is what we want to see.

Se Vita Privare GOP
May 28th, 2008
 
It means suicide by taking poison.
How do you poison the GOP elephant? With liberalism. American left-wing Liberalism is the kryptonite of [...]

Democrats are this oblivious.

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” - Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

 
That’s like saying “Today, Barack Obama, former commuinty organizer with zero foreign policy experience, is ready for the presidency.”
The difference is that Sarah Palin actually governed, whereas Barack Obama just [...]

From the bowl of The Rude Dog: Update
Senator Ted Stevens- Ted Stevens may be going down the Internet tubes.
Ted Stevens has led an amazing American life. A decorated WW2 Veteran who supported the Flying Tigers, later became a lawyer and then a United States Senator. This is where we start going downhill.
Teddy was a moderate Republican like [...]

 
It means suicide by taking poison.
How do you poison the GOP elephant? With liberalism. American left-wing Liberalism is the kryptonite of the American Dream.
The GOP has slowly been taking doses of liberalism to “appeal to the middle.” They were the rational republicans, the bi-partisan get-a-long gang that ushered Democrats right back into Congress in 2006.
Spineless failures of manhood [...]