This guy is investigating the President? Sheesh. *According to my grandmother, a “goniff” is a person who is not entirely reputable.
For those of us who like to dig through the Senate and House lobbying records, FARA registrations and old SEC filings, nothing excites like the possibility of a presidential candidate with deep but largely undisclosed business ties at home and abroad. So when I read the following exchange between Rudy Giuliani and CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, [...]
I disagree with Rick Santorum on almost everything, including abortion. But this recent kerfuffle about the former Pennsylvania Senator’s remarks about black people, including the President, and abortion is a classic example of political correctness run amok. Indeed, there is an internal logic to Santorum’s remarks that represents the exact opposite of racism. First, you [...]
Gotta admit I’m not too pleased by the departure of Paul Volcker from Barack Obama’s circle of adviser. He was one of the few, along with Elizabeth Warren, in the current administration who had a proper perspective on the outrageous behavior that the financial community considers business as usual. And while the appointment of his [...]
If Barack Obama is going to be re-elected in 2012, it’s pretty clear that unemployment in America will have to come down from its current level of 9.4 percent. (Obviously this isn’t a precise science, but I agree we’re most likely talking about a number closer to eight than nine.) But there’s the national number, [...]
As Crowley wrote this morning, in reference to Republicans’ recent penchant for tossing out massive spending-cut targets and avoiding the specifics, “At some point the GOP will need to stop manufacturing debate and start manufacturing real budget cuts.” Right on cue, the Republican Study Committee offers up a plan that identifies $2.5 trillion in spending [...]
Every Christmas, longshoremen working the docks in New York and New Jersey receive royalty payments from shipping companies that off-load at the region’s piers. Every Christmas for the last 30 years the Genovese crime family, which infiltrated union leadership, would violently extort part of the payments from members, according to an indictment released today by [...]
Last night, when I informed one of my editors that I planned to serialize my review of O, the novel, on this blog, I got an emailed response that read, “I think this sounds great. A serialized review, in the tradition of the great serialized (and sometimes anonymous!) nineteenth-century novels.” I replied, “Ha. Like saying [...]
Yesterday, six states – Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Wyoming and Maines – joined the Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The federal suit, in which a ruling is expected within weeks, now includes 26 states. In addition, Virginia is pursuing its own case and Oklahoma’s attorney general has indicated he intends [...]
