Presidentin’ Is Hard

Though I make no claims of being a financial wizard, or a political maven, even I can see that all is not right on Wall Street, D.C. where the heart and soul of our country is on life support, currently being administered to by second graders who want to be doctors when they grow up.  [...]

Friday: Tunnel Vision

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse with the banking system, we have a *new* concept to grapple with and this one should make you want to sharpen your pitchfork.  It’s called “tunneling”.  In short, tunneling occurs when bankers on the brink of insolvency are kept afloat just long enough for them to [...]

Really Bad Open Thread

David Hasselhof – “Limbo Dance” What could possibly be worse?

Was it an Intentional Trans-Atlantic Cold Shoulder?

  Within days of taking office Barack Obama caused a minor diplomatic flap when he brusquely rejected the continued loan of a bust of Winston Churchill that had stood in the Oval Office since shortly after the 9/11 attacks.  The valuable bronze art work was on loan from the British government’s art collection. Then there was the [...]

Lecturing “PUMAs”

“PUMA” is an acronym dreamed up by Conflucian “SM” at The Confluence on June 1, 2008 at 3:39PM. SM is a woman with experience in advertising and public relations, and she’s really good at thinking up clever acronyms and slogans. This time she created one that went viral within days after she posted this comment [...]

Thursday: Where in the world is Hillary Clinton?

Our intrepid Secretary of State is hitting her stride this week with visits to the middle east and Europe.  You can follow her itinerary using this Google interactive map.  Yesterday, she met with Mahmoud Abbas and declared our commitment to a two state solution as well as recognizing the Palestinian Authority as the only legitimate [...]

It Wasn’t Me

  What happens whenever a statement backfires or a strategy blows up in Obama’s face?  He blames it on someone else and denies all responsibility.  So guess what?: New media meme alert: A secret plot hatched solely by the White House is entirely to blame for the Rush Limbaugh story getting so much media attention [...]

No Tinfoil: We Have Been Living in a Dictatorship

On Monday the Department of Justice posted nine memos containing stunningly un-American legal opinions that were kept secret during the Bush years. These memos were used to justify a shocking expansion of executive power and to nullify most of our Constitutional rights. Scott Horton of the Harpers Magazine writes: We may not have realized it [...]

I Told Ya So!

Yesterday I said I had a bad feeling about the Obama administration’s strategery of targeting Rush Limbaugh.  Today from The Big Fat Idiot: But I have an idea.  If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn’t President Obama come on my show?  We will do [...]

Wednesday: I will gladly pay you Tuesday

The kid has AM detention (don’t ask), so I have to make this short. Quick question:  What do the following American taxpayers have in common? GM auto workers middle class suburbanites state workers with pensions Answer:  They all agreed to defer part of their employment compensation package for future retirement benefits in the form of [...]