Odds and Ends

This will be another crazy week. Let's all try to stay sane. Here's the news...

President Bush may be close to selecting a nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Rumored top choice? Super-non-partisan former Solicitor General, Ted Olson.

Speaking of disgraced former Bushies... Donald Rumsfeld is breaking his post-resignation silence and, surprise, says "he has nothing to apologize for." He did a heckuva job!

The latest in the Sen. Craig saga? He wants to withdraw his guilty plea.

Nothing makes a mockery of the invisible hand of the free market than companies that take advantage of people struggling economically as a result of being taken advantage of before. This article tells the story of a company scamming people in danger of mortgage foreclosure out of more money under the pretense of helping them save their homes.

Finally, Congress approved a bill which "raises the maximum Pell grant for low-income students from $4,050 to $5,400, and temporarily slashes interest rates on student loans by half." It would be funded "by a massive cut in subsidies to the scandal-plagued private student loan industry."