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In 2006, there were 617,660 bankruptcy filings, according to the agency that compiles data from federal courts across the United States. The vast majority of the 2007 filings -- 822,590 of them -- involved individuals. Year Chap 7 Chap 11 Total2007 28,322 822,590 850,912 2006 19,695 597,965 617,660 2005 39,201 2,039,214 2,078,415 2004 34,317 1,563,145 1,597,462 2003 35,037 1,625,208 1,660,245 * Data from Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded JournoList, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources. But in the heat of a bitter presidential campaign in 2008, the list’s discussions veered into collusion and coordination at key political moments, documents revealed this week by The Daily Caller show. In a key episode, JournoList members openly plotted to bury attention on then-candidate Barack Obama’s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman, for instance, suggested an effective tactic...