Month: December 2007

It Doesn’t Add Up

As I see that UBS is writing off $10 billion (with a b) in subprime losses and almost certainly will write off more bad losses in the months to come, something caught my eye that doesn’t add up. Swiss banking giant UBS AG...

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Who Isn’t Electable?

Al Gore was a tough debater until he met George W. Bush and got an attack of the sighs. He famously bested Dan Quayle and Ross Perot in early 1990’s debates. One debate I remember particularly was between Gore and Bill...

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Energy Update: U.S. continues to fall behind

a flawed, but far reaching, energy bill passed by the House last week, in a 235 to 181 vote has met an early demise in the Senate. a procedural vote requiring 60 ayes to proceed, failed 53 to 42, as the RATpublicans rallied...

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The True Statements of George W. Bush

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing click to enlargeAny credibility left for Bush? The intelligence community released the NIE on Iran to avoid the cherry picking that went on for the Iraq war....

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