USATODAY.com - At the height of his power in the 1990s, the Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was disdainful, bombastic and vain. That he was credentialed as a psychiatrist and poet mattered little. No one who met him then would be surprised to find that he orchestrated mass murder.

USATODAY.com - A question comes up these days as a common refrain: Why is the government so eager to bail out big institutions but not the proverbial little guy?

USATODAY.com - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's latest bailout proposal for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is not only misguided, it is downright threatening to the American taxpayer and the free market.