Solving the Rootsgapby: Matt StollerTue Jan 06, 2009 (I wanted more people to see this, and not just because I am running errands today and won’t be able to blog until later. Best wishes to Matt, who for three years has been the best writing partner I could ask for. If our efforts to create […]
Bernard and Ruth Madoff What does it mean, Madoff’s end game? A Ponzi Scheme has to end sometime. Maybe sometimes, the perpetrator of such a fraud sort of slid into it by covering up previous failures, and hopes to find a way of turning it into a legitimate business venture. But Madoff was in so […]
Cheney: Bush’s actions legal if not impeached Cheney referenced Abraham Lincoln as an example of another president who "suspended the writ of habeus corpus" during a war, prompting this exchange: SCHIEFFER:But nobody thinks that was legal. CHENEY: Well, no. It certainly was in the sense he wasn’t impeached. And it was a wartime measure that […]
The Anti-Stimulus Crowd: The Fear of Success by: Dean Baker, t·r·u·t·h·o·u·t | Perspective At least some Republicans are starting to muster an anti-stimulus drive, claiming that President-elect Obama’s package will not help the economy. Their drive is centered on what they claim is a careful rereading of the history of the New Deal. According to […]
Feds: Jail Madoff For Violating Bail 4:29 PM ET: Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to throw alleged $50 billion Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff — currently out on bail — in jail for mailing $1 million worth of assets to third parties. According to assistant U.S. attorney Marc Litt, testifying in Manhattan federal court today, Madoff […]
Paul Krugman has done his due diligance. He’s written his New York Times column throughout the Bush Era under the heading Consciance of a Liberal – a brave thing to do during these years. At the same time, he’s done the academic work required to win this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. And he’s continued […]
So, on the December the 26th after my daughter headed back home from a good holiday visit, I took a nap. I drove my truck on Saturday the 27th – which was fine. On the 28th, I got in my truck and it was "missing" and an ominous light on the dashboard lit up, shaped […]
Sometimes I get those “Oh my God, Bush and Cheney have destroyed America!” feelings – or – “America’s been destroyed. That’s why Bush and Cheney got re-elected!” feelings. Like while I was writing the last post. But then I can always go to Youtube and remind myself how awful things really can be, by replaying […]
Scarecrow has a relatively gloomy take on the damage of the Bush Era to America: Of course, that only begs the question of how the country was so easily duped, not once, but through two elections and repeatedly as the regime conned the Congress and the public into supporting every one of the policy failures […]
Blagojevich, Reid, and Rahm: Who Is Distorting Claims about Jesse Jackson Jr.? By emptywheel The Sun-Times has updated its story on Reid’s calls to Rod Blagojevich with this statement from Harry Reid: Gov. Blagojevich appears to be trying to distract attention from his daunting legal problems and damaged credibility by distorting information about private phone […]