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 […]
Author: Paul Campos
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.
I don’t know whether it will be dozens or hundreds, but my friend Steve the atmospheric scientist is pessimistic. He says that people aren’t sufficiently frightened of Ike because its maximum winds aren’t that high, but that it’s an enormous storm in terms of its total wind field, which means it’s going to create a […]
Check out the headline and lede for this story: Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska By Anne E.KornblutWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 12, 2008; Page A01FORT WAINWRI
Amid all the extremely disturbing tidbits in the Gibson/Palin soupcon of agitprop masquerading as journalism, the most disturbing may be the revelation that the GOP’s VP candidate (on a ticket w
ABC has released some transcripts of clips of Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin: Clip 1: GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say “I have the experience and […]
If someone close to you died in the 9/11 terror attacks this isn’t intended for you. For you, this is a day of legitimate mourning and real grief, and this is about phony mourning and simulated
I’m shocked that this tactic disproportinately affects poor voters, who in even more shocking news are disproportinately black. “The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michi
Somebody calls your bluff? Double your bet. “Mrs. Palin also killed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in her own state. Yes, she once supported the project: But after witnessing the problems created by earmarks for her state and for the nation’s budget, she did what others like me have done: She changed her position and […]
. . . miniature American flags for everyone!
There’s a lot of this kind of thing going around right now (shorter version: she can bring home the salmon and fry it up in a pan). Indeed it’s being claimed that “Palin’s supe