The President’s Preacher Help Line

Recently, The New York Times and the Telegraph uk have published articles about five religious leaders who are advising President Barack Obama. Supposedly Obama has sought these five men’s counsel (yes, they are all men natch) because he has been without a church and pastor of his own since he threw his former pastor, Jeremiah [...]

Things that make you go hmmm, episode 3

Stop me if you’ve heard this one already.  James Kwak at Baseline Scenario found this nugget buried in Monica Langley’s silly piece at the WSJ that Cinie dispatched yesterday: Some bankers say they turned the conversations into complaints about the antibonus crusade consuming Capitol Hill. Some have begun “slow-walking” the information previously sought by Treasury [...]