Great new political site

My former colleagues at the editorial page of The Orange County Register just put up a great new site, FreedomPolitics.com.

It features libertarian reporting, insight, and links on Orange County, California, America, and in partibus infidelium.

They criticize Bush for being…

Bush: The Great Regulator

To hear Democrats tell it, the past eight years have been a binge of dangerous deregulation. Veronique de Rugy argues Bush was anything but a “hands off” regulator.

Reason: Bush’s Regulatory Kiss-Off

And the site ridcules the Feds’ latest bank bailout (with your tax money or inflated dollars):

Federal Bank of America

Following a new bailout of the bank on Thursday, the US Government is the largest shareholder in Bank of America.

Two weeks after closing its purchase of Merrill Lynch at the urging of U.S. regulators, the government cemented a deal at midnight Thursday to supply Bank of America with a fresh $20 billion capital injection and absorb as much as $98.2 billion in losses on toxic assets, according to people involved in the transaction.

The bank had been pressing the government for help after it was surprised to learn that Merrill would be taking a fourth-quarter write-down of $15 billion to $20 billion, according to two people who have been briefed on the situation, in addition to Bank of America’s rising consumer loan losses.

The second lifeline brings the government’s total stake in Bank of America to $45 billion and makes it the bank’s largest shareholder, with a stake of about 6 percent.

Check it out.