Both President Obama and Vice President Biden denounced the excesses of Wall Street today. Biden, with characteristic gruffness, told CNBC: “I’d like to throw these…
This is too good.
It turns out that David Berman, front man of the Silver Jews, is the son of the Richard Berman, one of…
The man I wish was Treasury Secretary had this to say yesterday:
As the Obama administration apparently prepares to launch Hankie Pankie II — buying…
I was at work when I heard the news, sandwiched between fresh Israeli air strikes and the latest Republican petulance, that John Updike had died…
While reading Irving Howe’s Socialism and America over the weekend I couldn’t help but notice similarities between our collective reaction to the present economic crisis…
As Daniel noted, William Kristol no longer writes for The New York Times.
The Washington Monthly puts it best:
“His columns combined the three worst…
Victor Navasky has some interesting thoughts on the “centrist” label the punditry favor in regards to President Obama’s place on the ideological spectrum.
It strikes…
For those keeping track, the prestige of the newspaper industry has taken another hit. Carlos Slim, a Mexican tycoon of dubious morality, has given The…
Obama has been getting a lot of rhetorical mileage out of the concept of post-partisan politics, and he has been making a number of appeasing…
I never expected much from The Weekly Standard: a dash of jingoistic tripe here, a slap of archaic cultural conservatism there, the kind of intellectually…
A new ad from the Catholic website HopeAfterAbortion.com is currently on display in the Washington, D.C. Metro. The ad, depicting a woman’s eyes bordered by…
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