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Charles F. Huber II: 12/30/1929--7/12/2009

McCain's Lone Ranger 7.20.09 4:08 PM | Charles F. Huber, II, of Bloomfield, CT, born in West Hartford on December 30, 1929, son of Thomas C. and Dorothy (Yost) Huber and a descendant of Mayflower colonists and Revolutionary War and...
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Apres Moi Le Deluge

McCain's Lone Ranger 11.3.08 4:36 PM | The pitter pat of “happy feet” grows louder; Barack Obama nears the White House. His mentor, the communist poet Frank Wilson, smiles. Sol Alinsky taught the Ivy League graduate the marvels of...
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Mark to Market Torpedoes Paulson

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.30.08 4:22 PM | Paulson uses Sarbanes-Oxley to grab power for Goldman-Sachs’ Wall Street at the expense of Main Street. The key is mark to market. Rising assets, marked to market, cause euphoria. Falling assets,...
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The Democrats' Dilemma/McCain's Opportunity

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.30.08 4:13 PM | Eyewitnesses say Thursday’s meeting at the White House featured Obama speaking for the Democrats while McCain was silent. Phones rang off their hooks with both Republican and Democrat all opposing...
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The Ivy League Gets Trumped!

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.26.08 12:53 PM | Paulson, Bernanke, and Bush hatched a brilliant plan. It was not a bailout. It did not hook taxpayers. It would have worked. It has the backing of Frank, Schumer, Dodd, Reid, Pelosi, Rangel,...
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Why We Must Vote for McCain

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.26.08 12:51 PM | The Paulson plan is not a bailout. Bailouts get criminals out of jail prior to trial. Neither is it a grab of taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street moguls. Rather, it is a means to reverse the...
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Oil, Obama & McCain

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.15.08 3:18 PM | Obama would commit forces to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Russians learned that Afghanistan cannot be tamed. Poppies are the cash crop, bought and processed worldwide by various mafia...
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Wall Street in Perspective

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.15.08 2:59 PM | I entered Wall Street in 1956. Banker's Trust, then Ball, Burge & Krause in Cleveland. Reynolds Securities, Oppenheimer, Drexel and Dean Witter. The old Wall Street was privately owned. The top...
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The Financial Crisis

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 5:03 PM | Twenty years of cheap money by the government benefited not the public, but rather a band of bankers and intermediaries who encouraged the public to borrow by placing unrealistically high...
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Offshore Drilling, Palin & the Deficit: Let's Export Oil!

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:57 PM | Drill, drill, drill. Why and for whom? Big oil has no interest in lowering the price of oil. Politicians have their arms in the corn barrel. Only Sarah Palin can twist the arms of big oil to share...
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Payroll Taxes

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:54 PM | Senator McCain has a unique opportunity to defuse Obama’s tax policy by trading retention of the Bush tax cuts for an expansion of the payroll tax to all employers, subject to the caveat that all...
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Palin and Oil

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:51 PM | Palin extended the debate over oil versus the environment to cost. She raised the question of oil imports versus oil exports. Worldwide oil discovery shatters the shortage myth. Could American...
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The Middle East & Russia

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:49 PM | A decade after Reagan won the Cold War and sponsored supply side economics, a new voice threatened the free world. Environmentalists attacked dependence on carbon based energy. Saudi Arabia, with...
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Gustav and Palin

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:46 PM | Hurricanes have brought into contrast Governors Bush and Jindal who handled Gustav with competency and calm versus the entire political structure of Louisiana which panicked during Katrina with bad...
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Why Drill, Drill, Drill Has Not Succeeded

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:43 PM | Is our objective self-sufficiency? Should not the United States be the world’s largest oil producer? Environmentalists aside, the greatest opposition comes from international oil companies whose...
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The Conventions

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.9.08 4:39 PM | The two national conventions profiled two totally opposite personalities. Obama’s skin was exposed as paper thin. His demeanor, while earnest, is totally without humor. Biden’s reaction to Palin...
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The Mortgage Mess

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.8.08 4:17 PM | Memo to Ric Davis: The winning economic strategy for John McCain is to emphasize the first Bush administration and Bush 2 including the two terms of Clinton. For twenty years the government...
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Pay Off Your Secondary Mortgage

McCain's Lone Ranger 9.8.08 3:12 PM | As the stock market falls and economic news worsens and far-ranging explanations flood the airwaves, ONE explanation is absent—the de-equitization of housing. Clinton’s blessing of Greenspan’s easy...
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Catch-up versus Leadership

McCain's Lone Ranger 7.17.08 2:17 PM | Why drill for oil? To catch up with imports? But suppose Anwar, offshore California and the Gulf—plus the continental shelf could make us the world’s largest producer of oil? What would be the...
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A Blog for NAFTA

McCain's Lone Ranger 7.7.08 2:46 PM | The thrilling rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three American engineers makes our commitment to NAFTA more important. The potential axis of Colombia, Chile, and Brazil as counterweight to Hugo...
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