NYC Consigliere’s Corner Friday, February 12, 2010 “The most important political office is that of the private citizen” Justice Louis D. Brandeis Were it not clear before yesterday in the manner which Glenn Beck sandbagged and set a trap for surging Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina who was rising in the polls and closing in [...]

by Adrian Murray, Fort Worth 912 President on Feb 12, 2010 I was born in Dublin, Ireland 38 years after the 1916 Easter Rising in which a band of Irish patriots rose up against oppressive British rule of their country. After an initial success in taking over the Dublin General Post Office, the rebellion eventually [...]

I like it that Sarah Palin talks about smaller government, and that her very existence makes the lying incumbents in Washington nervous. I like that she cultivates a persona of simple straight talk – even innocence. But the problem with Sarah is that, like so many Americans, she’s never really thought too deeply about the [...]

Image by Tracy O via Flickr The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in one of the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, [...]