IndyMac - It's All Chuck Schumer's Fault!
Or so says John Reich of the OTC. You see, everything was just hunky dory with IndyMac Bank. Never mind its shutting down mortgage operations, never mind the faulty business decisions (or bets, as...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Value of Angry Mobs to a Functioning Republic
We were watching the fifth episode of HBO's John Adams last night (which I highly recommend to those of y'all who haven't seen it yet; a great exploration of the birth and infancy of this nation), and...
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Patti Smith Brings Revolutionary Soul to Beirut
By way of the LA Times' Babylon & Beyond blog, I see that one of my all time favorite artists, Patti Smith, brought her revolutionary soul to Beirut to "sing for the "regeneration" of the city of...
View ArticleA Crunchier Credit Crunch
The IMF has released its most recent global financial stability report and the findings aren't all that pretty. Despite the desire and predictions of so many analysts and talking media heads to have...
View ArticleCloser Than Either Might Like to Believe
In a startling sign of just how far US-Iranian relations have come, chart-topping American Jingo Music star Toby Keith seems to have penned an ode to the Iranian justice system.From Max Blumenthal over...
View ArticleMortgage Meltdown: Much Worse Before It Gets Better
The mortgage crisis still has a ways to go before we even begin to feel its full effects. Not the sort of thing you want to realize when you consider how much bloodletting's been going on already, but...
View ArticleMS Sen: NPR on Neshoba, Musgrove v. Wicker
Interesting Mississippi-focused segment on NPR's Morning Edition today. Reporter Debbie Elliot takes a look at Mississippi politics, and the Musgrove-Wicker senate race particularly, from the historic...
View ArticleMS-Sen: "A Down-to-the-Wire Donnybrook"
I have to admit, donnybrook sent me to the dictionary. For the record, it's an old Irish word for "brawl," which comes from the Dublin district where, from the time of King John, the annual Donnybrook...
View ArticleMcCain's Georgian August Surprise?
Robert Scheer raises a very interesting question over at truthdig, namely whether Georgian lobbyist and McCain senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann had any role in stoking the current crisis...
View ArticleRight Wing Gunning for Chuck Schumer
Y'all may recall the dust-up over the IndyMac failure, when the OTS laid the blame at Chuck Schumer's feet for writing a letter warning that, without intervention, IndyMac would...well....fail.Well,...
View ArticleElectoral Shenanigans in Mississippi Senate Race
Seems that MS Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has decided to his part as a loyal Republican foot soldier and bury the Senate race at the bottom of the ballot in defiance of Mississippi election...
View ArticleStrategy For Winning an Unwinnable Election
What do you do when your party is responsible for the ills of the country, and you're facing a voter backlash unlike anything your party has seen in decades? How do you even hope to retain the White...
View ArticleIndyMac - It's All Chuck Schumer's Fault!
Or so says John Reich of the OTC. You see, everything was just hunky dory with IndyMac Bank. Never mind its shutting down mortgage operations, never mind the faulty business decisions (or bets, as...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Value of Angry Mobs to a Functioning Republic
We were watching the fifth episode of HBO's John Adams last night (which I highly recommend to those of y'all who haven't seen it yet; a great exploration of the birth and infancy of this nation), and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Patti Smith Brings Revolutionary Soul to Beirut
By way of the LA Times' Babylon & Beyond blog, I see that one of my all time favorite artists, Patti Smith, brought her revolutionary soul to Beirut to "sing for the "regeneration" of the city of...
View ArticleA Crunchier Credit Crunch
The IMF has released its most recent global financial stability report and the findings aren't all that pretty. Despite the desire and predictions of so many analysts and talking media heads to have...
View ArticleCloser Than Either Might Like to Believe
In a startling sign of just how far US-Iranian relations have come, chart-topping American Jingo Music star Toby Keith seems to have penned an ode to the Iranian justice system.From Max Blumenthal over...
View ArticleMortgage Meltdown: Much Worse Before It Gets Better
The mortgage crisis still has a ways to go before we even begin to feel its full effects. Not the sort of thing you want to realize when you consider how much bloodletting's been going on already, but...
View ArticleMS Sen: NPR on Neshoba, Musgrove v. Wicker
Interesting Mississippi-focused segment on NPR's Morning Edition today. Reporter Debbie Elliot takes a look at Mississippi politics, and the Musgrove-Wicker senate race particularly, from the historic...
View ArticleMS-Sen: "A Down-to-the-Wire Donnybrook"
I have to admit, donnybrook sent me to the dictionary. For the record, it's an old Irish word for "brawl," which comes from the Dublin district where, from the time of King John, the annual Donnybrook...
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