With no real fanfare, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has finished up his investigation of steroids in professional wrestling. (Yep, it’s a problem.) Marc Ambinder, a hopeless fan of the squared circle, has a good write up of some of the highlights and the policy implications. But the steroid stuff is not really the most interesting [...]
If you’ve been watching cable news over the past few days, you may have noticed a new refrain from GOPers, led by NRSC chair Sen. John Cornyn. Ever since Harry Reid admitted on “Meet the Press” that he had spoken to Rod Blagojevich about filling the vacant Illinois Senate seat, Cornyn has been demanding that [...]
Obviously yesterday’s nasty scene left a bad taste in the mouths of Senate Democratic leaders. While they aren’t going to immediately seat Burris, as was reported this morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did tell reporters they’ll consider seating the former Illinois attorney general depending on the outcome of Burris’ testimony before the Illinois legislature’s [...]
Jeremiah Wright has been fairly quiet lately, giving just a handful of public addresses in the fall. But guess where he’ll be on January 20, while a certain ceremony is taking place in the nation’s capital? Just 90 miles down the road in Richmond. Yes, on Inauguration Day, the good Rev. Wright will be giving [...]
Via Ezra Klein, we are alerted to Barack Obama’s 2001 attempt at food critique for a television show that apparently never ran. (See here now his opinions on flap jacks, peach cobbler!) I envision a return to presidential politics for Frank Bruni, the chief gourmand at the New York Times. Just imagine the delicious primary [...]
In his 1955 book “The Great Crash: 1929,” John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist, explained concisely why Bernie Madoff is unlikely to be the last corrupt financier to be shoved into sunlight. At any given time there exists an inventory of undiscovered embezzlement in – or more precisely not in – the country’s business and banks. [...]
