No “law and” nonsense for you. After Scalia left [the University of Chicago Law School] it hired now-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and started offering classes like Obama’s popular “Current issues in Racism and the Law.” Scalia never mentioned Obama or any other professor. But Scalia bemoaned the proliferation of exotic law classes in the […]
Author: Paul Campos
This is pretty extraordinary: McCain did an interview with a Spanish national radio network, in which he either:(1) Refused to meet with Spain’s prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero becau
I confess to being a little obsessed with Todd Collins. Who is Todd Collins you may well ask? At present, he a backup QB for Washington’s NFL team, where he is being paid $3 million per season o
Prominent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter who recently married a very elderly billionaire, thus becoming an expatriate Baronness, endorses McCain, while decrying Obama’s elitism. OK, to be fair it turns out she was already very rich herself before she married into the billionaire leagues. Unlike her preferred presidential candidate.
This may be an extremely naive question — I’m sure it is — but how is it exactly that the U.S. government can essentially nationalize a firm with $100 billion in sales and one trilli
24 hours ago one of McCain’s chief economic advisers announced that talk of serious economic trouble was all the fault of Barack Obama frightening everybody for crass political gain. This mornin
Increasingly, that seems to be the choice. The weird insistence on sticking to the obviously false claim about saying “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere is beginning to look like a pattern. Tonight at a fundraiser in Ohio, she re-told an already debunked story about her teleprompter not working during her VP […]
Ned Yost has been fired, with his team tied for the NL wild card spot and 13 days left in the season. Can’t think of any precedent for something like this off the top of my head. I don’t f
No it isn’t. Denver Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan was clearly having a Herm Edwards moment Sunday. You play to win the game, but Shanahan’s decision to go for a 2-point conversation for a victor
This WAPO op-ed from chief McCain economic adviser Donald Luskin may set some kind of record for unfortunate timing. Shorter Luskin: unless you happen to be among the few million wretched refuse of our teeming shores who purchased a subprime mortgage things are still pretty good so quit your bitching (I guess that’s not that […]
Looks like Lehman is going to be liquidated. Merrill may be next. Remember all those glossy paens to investment bankers and hedge funds and CDOs and the frictionless magic of the market in an age of g
. . . is because of the injuries he suffered as a POW? I mean have they? h/t Jason Zengerle.