Daily Links

 

It’s going to be a busy day on Wall Street.  Investment Firm, Lehman Brothers has filed for bankrupcy and Bank of America is buying Merril Lynch.

Talk the Vote: Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband has been subpeanoaed in the investigation into her firing of Alaska’s director of Public Safety.  Meanwhile, Palin is still driving the feminists crazy.  Here is a great blog post about the difference between Charlie Gibson’s questions to Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.  But, if you rewind time Gibson and George Stephanopoulos took heat after one of the Democratic debates for their treatment of Obama. 

 Karl Rove (the man who helped craft Bush’s winning strategies) says McCain’s ads against Obama have gone too far.  Then, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Ill) brings up McCain’s age and melanoma as reasons to not vote for him.  How about that campain slogan:  Vote Obama, Young and melanoma free.

Oil prices are down below $100 a barrel, but gas prices are going up in the US because of Hurricane Ike.  Offshore drilling could come to a vote in Congress.

Two men in Phoenix have been arrested for stealing a car and throwing a baby out the window.  Nice.