Great WSJ story on how the Cincinnati Bengals completely fleeced Hamilton County taxpayers for their stadium, creating a long-term county budget crisis that is crippling the region. My favorite part: Given the national economic slump, the county budget would have run into trouble with or...
if you haven’t spotted the sucker in the first half hour you are the sucker
...but if you signed up for Newt's presidential campaign unwatchable movie/unreadable book promotion tour, you were the sucker.
Bad deal: So why were Reid and Obama so eager to celebrate Boehner’s compromise with his conservative members? The Democrats believe it’s good to look like a winner, even if.
The commenters to this post make an excellent point about the repeated frauds of James O'Keefe and Fellow Misogynist Associates. It's not just that the press takes this crap at face value. Elite liberals and/or Democrats take this stuff at face value. With the exception...
It's not as if we didn't know this. But I guess some people need reminding -- if you're speaking to Newt Gingrich and take anything he says about running for.
Shorter Arlen Specter: "I sat on the Judiciary Committee table throughout the second Bush administration, and I still haven't spotted the sucker."
His column is very good and properly criticial, but there's still something amusingly I-can't-quit-you about this bit from Joe Klein's postmature farewell to his admiration for McCain: Two of the bills original sponsors, John McCain and Orrin Hatch, voted against the bill...and one wonders why,...
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins's "support" for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. .
I think Yglesias has the apporpriate response to Jacob Weisberg's comically belated discovery that John McCain is a cynical hack: But I feel like some of the media’s John McCain.
I figured that it would be a long time before I saw anything as pathetic as the PUMA conference. But, apparently, I might be mistaken...
Great New York Times article yesterday on the curious case of Michael Cantrell, an engineer who bilked the government out of millions of dollars in missile defense money. Much of.
Apparently, arbitrary executive power can be abused and exercised in ways that have little relationship with its stated justifications. Shocking!