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Scores of volunteers spent Sunday outside churches and inside city parks in a down-to-the-wire effort to register voters before today’s deadline.

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Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’re probably aware that today is the last day to register if you want to vote in November’s elections.  To quote a former co-worker, “If you don’t vote, I don’t want to hear any complaints for the next 4 years!”

Seriously, there’s no good reason to be apathetic about the government in today’s world, so if you haven’t yet, go register today.

U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Fort Morgan) voted against the $700 billion bailout of the nation’s financial industries Monday and pushed for a new bill that includes more financial reform and taxpayer safeguards.

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I’m not sure I support her stance on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as I suspect these last vestiges of the New Deal (I know Freddie was created in 1970, but you know what I mean) should just be allowed to die. However, I’m starting to think the government needs to do something, though I’m not sure what they could do that doesn’t put us 1 step closer to socialism.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is still on pace to approve more than 7,000 drilling permits this year, marking a steady industry surge from when 1,529 permits were approved for all of 2000.

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Could the economic downturn be the final push we need for energy independence?  It’s starting to look that way.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Udall used the spotlight of a popular Sunday morning news show this morning to call for powerful House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel to step down from his committee post amid an ongoing ethics investigation.

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One day he wants Rangel in, the next Udall wants Rangel out, but he’s definitely keeping Rangel’s money.  “So long and thanks for all the fish?”

Actually, my uneducated guess would be that he’s flip-flopping with public opinion in an attempt to win this election.

• Bankrupt Economics
  What we are witnessing, in the broadest sense, is the bankruptcy of modern economics.

• The Housing Bubble in 4 Easy Steps

• Re-Seeding the Housing Mess
  Taxpayers are naturally suspicious that political insiders and contributors on Wall Street are going to make out like bandits once Washington starts spending the $700 billion in the financial market rescue. But Democrats have already decided to spin off potentially billions of taxpayer dollars from the bailout fund to their own political buddies — not on Wall Street but on nearby K Street.

• Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
  America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster. But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.

Thursday night was a historic one for Israeli fans of the Beatles – the most successful and lauded pop-rock band ever. Thirty-eight years after the band’s breakup and 28 years after the death of his longtime partner in songwriting, John Lennon, Sir Paul McCartney performed in Israel for the first time ever. The concert took place before an audience estimated at 50,000, which filled an enclosure created for the event at Tel Aviv’s Ganei Yehoshua Park, and overflowed beyond it.

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Considering that he got a few death threats regarding this performance, I have to give Sir Paul some respect for going through with it.  It’s easy to talk a good game about not fearing terrorists, but not as easy to follow through.  Good job, Paul!