Chrystia Freeland From Financial Times

Chrystia Freeland is a Financial Times columnist and an everyday talking head guest on various talking head news shows.

She was a guest on the Maher show which ended with another stirring solution to the financial crisis: performing two random rich guys to set an example: "If we killed two random, rich greedy pigs; blew them up at halftime at next year’s Super Bowl. Or left them hanging on the big board at the New York Stock Exchange, you know, as a warning, with their balls in their mouths, I think it would really make everyone else sit up and take notice."

And in Maher’s panel discussion with his guests, Chrystia Freeland of the Financial Times sounded more leftist than fellow guest Maxine Waters. First, she condemns Ron Paul’s economics: "There is this very extremist economic view, they call it the Austrian School – ‘these companies got in trouble, we should be absolutist free marketeers.’ But would you like to live in a country where economic activity ground to a halt? I think it’s too risky an operation to try."

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Apply For KFC Scholarship Before February 10

KFC Scholars may now apply before February 10, 2009; these students can be considered for a KFC Colonel’s scholarship. The students who are selected will get up to $5,000 in a year which will help them to play for their college and their education requirements such as books, and other expenses.

The KFC scholarship will recognize the most eligible students and grant them scholarship of up to $20,000 over four years upon renewal. This will also help to pay for the cost in completing a bachelor’s degree at public Indiana colleges and other universities.

The Students applying for the scholarship must be graduating between Dec. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2009, and should have an increasing grade point average of 2.75 or higher. They also must plan to obtain a bachelor’s degree at a public, in-state college or university, demonstrate financial need and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

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Obama Bills Insurance For Low Income Children

The House gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill extending health insurance to millions of low-income children, and President Obama signed it this afternoon, in the first of what he hopes will be many steps to guarantee coverage for all Americans.

There were forty republican voting for the bill and 2 Democrats voting against it. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the tally as 290 to 135.

The former President George W. Bush had opposed it would lead to “government-run health care for every American.” But The Obama White House, worn out by a disaster over Tom Daschle’s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, revel in the passage of the bill as it showed how much difference an election could make.

The chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Representative of California Democrat Henry A. Waxman said, “While this bill is short of our ultimate goal of health reform, it is a down payment, and is an essential start.”