Good news, folks. Fear has been banished and greed is in! Lawrence H. Summers, the White House economic adviser, calls it “the paradox at the heart of the financial crisis. “ “In the past few years, we’ve seen too much greed and too little fear; too much spending and not enough saving; too much borrowing [...]
Good news, folks. Fear has been banished and greed is in! Lawrence H. Summers, the White House economic adviser, calls it “the paradox at the heart of the financial crisis. “ “In the past few years, we’ve seen too much greed and too little fear; too much spending and not enough saving; too much borrowing [...]
I don’t write much about it here, but I’m a huge fan of the Washington Capitals and have been since even before the greatest goal in Capitals history. Ted Leonsis has done an excellent job building what I believe it one of the strongest franchises in the NHL. If you are even tangentially interested in [...]
Well, why didn’t he tell us this before he panicked the country into believing that dumping a couple of million bucks on his favorite activist groups and campaign donors would be a great idea? But Obama, speaking to top executives of the Business Roundtable, expressed an optimistic vision and called for patience. Richard Parsons, chairman [...]
Well, why didn’t he tell us this before he panicked the country into believing that dumping a couple of million bucks on his favorite activist groups and campaign donors would be a great idea? But Obama, speaking to top executives of the Business Roundtable, expressed an optimistic vision and called for patience. Richard Parsons, chairman [...]
The Democrats held a hearing in the Senate on the Card Check bill on Tuesday and, lo and behold, a labor rally broke out! The Senator chairing the hearing, by the way, is the largest recipient of labor union cash in the Senate over the past 20 years. No wonder he’s so eager to turn [...]
This quote from one of Stacy’s posts seems a perfect introduction to another announcement: By slow and imperceptible degrees, like a vine climbing a wall, a stultifying artificiality has crept into American intellectual life, which is governed by a set of unspoken rules that prohibit engagement on terms that are honest, honorable and manly. Our [...]
My friend Stacy McCain has laid on me the most scurrilous charge of “undermin[ing] journalistic standards” because my post on Meghan McCain was linked in this post Jenn Q Public behind the words “shapely behind”. His accusation is simply not true. I never said Meghan McCain’s behind was “shapely”. I did say she had a [...]
We’ve definitely hit hard times when even the super villains need bailout money. By the way, if you don’t immediately recognize the actor under the bald pate, that’s John Hamm, from Mad Men. I haven’t watched the show but I should because Christina Hendricks is in it (and invoking her name in a blog is [...]
Here, in two stories, is everything that’s wrong with the Republican party. Story the First, wherein Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivers a good scolding to Congress for its profligate spending in the Age of Obama. “In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus,” McConnell [...]
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