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**************UNVERIFIED*************** If your bank account pays interest on your checking ("transaction") account, under the NEW TEMPORARY LAWS ("FDIC Transaction Guarantee Program"), the FDIC IS NOT covering your account if your bank fails. This refers to a REGULAR CHECKING ACCOUNT, not a money market account; however, if you have a N.O.W. checking account (Negotiable Order of Withdrawal), and if the interest rate does not exceed .50%, then your account is covered under FDIC. (So if your bank increases the interest rate above .50%, your account is no longer covered.) There's much more....like if you have a savings account that is linked...

The California Republican Party can’t fund some political activities just weeks before the Presidential Primary in February. It has no money. Some months ago, the Party faithful were shocked when it was revealed that new State Chairman Ron Nehring had hired illegal aliens for top state Party positions. Nehring diehards publicly decried my efforts and those of the San Francisco Chronicle that exposed the dry rot in the Party. Many of the state’s newspapers ignored the story and printed nothing about it until Ron Nehring’s illegal alien Australian hire for Party Chief Operating Officer resigned in shame and was replaced...

The only reason the Valeria Plame affair remains a big story is the small possibility that when U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the federal grand jury take action, any day now, it may reach into the Oval Office. That is, one or more indictments of government officials may lead to hard information that President Bush knew the Niger yellowcake story was pure propaganda, which helped him justify war with Iraq, when he used it in his 2003 State of the Union speech for that purpose. Fitzgerald has been keeping his cards close to his vest, but sources close to the...

California is off the plastic - for now. For the first time since recalled Gov. Gray Davis went on his spend-a-thon half a decade ago, a governor has proposed a budget that will not resort to new borrowing. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did it Friday with his May revision of his January budget proposal for fiscal year 2005-06, which begins July 1. A tax windfall of $4 billion this year allowed the governor to rescind $1.7 billion in deficit bond borrowing proposed in his January budget. And the governor would impose no new taxes. As he pointed out in his Friday...

As we have discussed earlier today, (story) "A San Francisco Superior Court judge declared California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional yesterday, saying it violates the basic human right to marry a person of one's choice. More than a year after..." Does the Constitution say anything about this? It doesn't, right? The Constitution doesn't talk about marriage at all, period, one way or the other, right? So we have this big umbrella here, "basic human rights," and the judge is allowed to determine what a human right is and isn't and whether the Constitution means it or doesn't. That's what has...