The Subprime Mortgage Crisis — In Easy-To-Understand Cartoon Form!
Good link here from Volokh.
Scandal
Screen Grabs From The Fish Wrapper Show Astonishing Amounts Of Disposable Income At Play
Before the Emperor’s Club VIP website got taken down, reporters from the Fish Wrapper got some screen grabs of pages advertising the various “models” whose companionship was offered. The rates are on page six of the screen grabs — you… Continue Reading
Most Piercing Attack Ad Yet This Campaign Season
Why the double standard, Hillary? Why?
Oopsies
I don’t think it’s been a big secret that New York Governor Elliot Spitzer entertains White House ambitions, so I anticipated some flack for not including him on the list of possible running mates for Barack Obama. My rationale was… Continue Reading
Hillary’s Canadian Problem
Remember that whole thing with Obama and his aide talking to the Canadians, then not talking to them, then he did again, and then he admitted Obama was pandering for votes and then he didn’t say anything of the sort… Continue Reading
You Filthy Liars, He Didn’t Make That Call
After a lot of investigation, the WaPo pronounces that Obama “parsed” his denial of the call to Canada and awards him two Pinocchios. Turns out that senior Obama advisor Austen Goolsbee “informally” met with (but did not phone) Georges Rioux,… Continue Reading
Knoxville Antics
This is small-town politics executed clumsier than usual. First there was the “God resolution” and now this. Actually, the return of the term limits puts the “God resolution” in a whole new light, as the Commissioners were clearly scrambling for… Continue Reading
Graffiti on a Bathroom Stall
“Senator? Is that you?”
Say It Ain’t So
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard for all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell, Collected… Continue Reading
Willie Horton In Arkansas?
The report on Mike Huckabee’s agitation to parole a serial rapist comes from the Huffington Post, which I hardly consider an unbiased source. Here, however, are the digested facts of the article, which until the break are all apparently accurate… Continue Reading