Day November 10, 2008

Catholic Church major player in Yes on 8

Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. The June letter from Niederauer drew in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

2008 presidential election by population

The states are sized to match their population, not acreage. On such a map, for example, the state of Rhode Island, with its 1.1 million inhabitants, would appear about twice the size of Wyoming, which has half a million, even…

Financial news

Deutsche Bank: GM stock will go to zero. Yes, zero. Regardless of whether there is a bailout. AIG gets bailed out again. Or is this just more plundering? The case for Larry Summers. He Gets Stuff Done and is extremely…