I'm going to go out on a limb and make an economic prediction:  if there is no bailout, the economy will keep muddling along without even entering a formal recession.  The Dow will stay comfortably above 10,000 and real GDP growth will stay positive.Drudge has posted two significant articles.  The first from CNN explains that there is no catastrophe and that we should do nothing but let the companies that screwed up go bankrupt, and then fix what government broke in the first place, primarily Fannie and Freddie.The second article from the National Post  points out why we should be fighting the bailout tooth and nail.  It reminds us that the fifth point in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto was the "centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly."Everyone from Germany and Japan to Australia  is screaming for the bailout to be passed.  (We suddenly have friends...(Read Full Post)