Allen Stanford Asks The Judge to Let Him Out

R. Allen Stanford, former chief executive of Stanford Financial Group arrives for court Wednesday 5/26, the right side of his face still partially paralyzed from a prison fight with his cellmate six months earlier. The accused Texas financier faces a in January 2011 trial date on charges he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. He now wants to represent himself and to do that, needs to be released from federal prison on house arrest so he can work with a bevy of attorneys, some of whom he wasn't sure were still on his case. Lloyds of London has been paying legal fees of $2 mil per month for all the defendants. Photo © 2010 F. Carter Smith

A Tale of Two Governors

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin came to Texas to stump for Texas Governor Rick Perry's re-election campaign. Interesting how she chose to support a man for the job rather than his opponent in the primary U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Some pundits suggest this could be the GOP's presidential ticket in 2012. If so, she had better learn that the fine people from Red Rock don't call Texas home. Twice she mentioned the Colorado natural amphitheater when she probably meant to praise the Austin suburb, Round Rock. She read it from her notes instead of her hand.