Bear Stearns loses half of its value within 30 minutes of market open today. The Fed and JP Morgan prop it up with dollars that have taken a 40% hit during the past 12 months. Mr. Happy gets in front of the Economic Club of New York this morning and blows rainbows […]

BDR’s post on the “cultlike” Obama movement nearly made my head explode. Not because of BDR’s cynicism about Obama himself—while I wouldn’t put it in the same words, I think it’s obvious that even if it sounds that way now, Obama would not govern in the overlords-be-damned way a Kucinich might—but because of that CNN […]

So Multiple Choice Mitt is out of the race. Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, he said, “If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign, and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in […]

The National Football League’s Championship Sunday is usually better than its Super Bowl Sunday. When there’s just one game, a stinker leaves you stuck. On Championship Sunday, you’re practically guaranteed at least one thriller. This week, my guess is that we’ll have one of each.
But first, the pregame activities: caucuses in Nevada and a primary […]

My interest in the Iowa caucuses stems from having lived there for most of two decades. I take mild offense at all the inbred-pig-farmer jokes made by people dissing the caucuses, although many of those same jokers are spot-on about the blinding cultural whiteness of the place. I’ve been to New Hampshire once in my […]

Our long national nightmare is almost over . . . the Iowa caucuses are tonight. One of the most ludicrous aspects of the 2008 campaign is that we’re doing this two days after New Year’s. (If a few other states had gotten their wish, we’d have done it around Christmas.) January 3 is the earliest […]

Apparently Bushco had an opportunity, a real opportunity to bring Iran, yes that Axis of Evil Iran, into the coalition of the willing. According to an article about two senior Bushco Middle East experts/strategists in Esquire, Iran offered Bushco the following:
“It was an average morning in April, about four weeks into the war. Mann picked […]

On Face the Nation yesterday Bob Schieffer pinned the Massachusetts governor against the ropes and pummeled him with question after question about his Mormon (LDS) faith.  All defense, all the time, Romney referred Schieffer’s questions about LDS doctrine to the Elders in Salt Lake City.  But this wasn’t good enough for self-styled Christian Schieffer; his line of questioning seemed to […]

I just finished Naomi Wolf’s new book, “The End of America, A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” and heavily recommend it to anyone who may have lost the context of the campaign of shock and awe that this administration has conducted not on the people of Iraq, but on the citizens of the […]

Now that the Supremes have ruled that former Viacom CEO Tom Freston, who walked away from that company with a $85 million severance package, can stick the taxpayers of New York with the $21,819 tuition bill for private school for his ”special needs” son (he has ADD) without first seeing if public schools could do the job, can we PLEASE stop bashing […]