StickWithANose

From an interview in Spiegel:
Volcker: The recovery is quite slow and I expect it to continue to be pretty slow and restrained for a variety of reasons and the possibility of a relapse can’t be entirely discounted. I’m not predicting it but I think we have to be careful.
SPIEGEL: What is the difference between this [...]

… this is a heist.
What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate [...]

From CBS Springfield:
Many remember Fred Allen Swan walking out of the Springfield Federal Court in 2007. Then, he was facing a 2 year probation sentence. Today, he’s about to lead a Springfield charter school.
Swan plead guilty to fraud and a close to a million dollar bid rigging scheme.
However, in the last week, he’s been tapped [...]

In light of my recent turn toward raw pessimism over our current state of affairs here in the banana republic of the USA, I was intrigued when I came across this op-ed originally published in the Dallas Morning Star that appears to be channeling the Frankfurt school of political philosophy and [as far as I'm [...]

As the casing is slipped around the political sausage of Health Care Reform emerging from the grinder that is our House of Lords esteemed Senate, it is important to take note of the profound emptiness of the political concepts that dominate popular discourse. This first decade of the 21st century has provided us with ample [...]

Here is a review of a review of Going Rogue: An American Nightmare… [h/t LGM]
I confess I anticipated the possibility that Fish would review Going Rogue, as he has fashioned himself in his Times blog into a more loquacious Ann Althouse, but I hoped it wouldn’t be quite like this. But now, there it is, [...]

Going all the way back to Reagan’s Nation at Risk report in 1983, the economic miracle of the Asian ‘Tigers’ and their rigid educational structures have long occupied the minds of conservative pols and venture philanthropists, and the on-going push to substitute continuous standardized assessment for actual learning finds its intellectual roots in the perceived [...]

EK lays the smack down on the empty rhetoric that dominates popular discourse here in BananaAmerica!
It is fashionable in Tennessee to be a Republican, to quote James Madison and to cheer the bandwagon of states in which legislation has been or is planned to be introduced to fight federal health care reforms as unconstitutional, but [...]