If big, undercapitalized banks lumber along for years without performing their assigned tasks in the economy, they are called Zombie Banks. What do you call a nation that lumbers along for years without coming to terms with the...
Read MoreI’m a little gobsmacked by the latest Chris Bowers piece on the economic recovery efforts. He acknowledges that Obama today directly addressed and denied some of the conspiracy theories that have been peddled at OpenLeft,...
Read MoreMuch has been made of the vitality that President Obama brings to the White House. To be sure, this is in part the story of his relative youth—only Clinton, Grant, Kennedy, and Theodore Roosevelt were younger when...
Read MoreDaphne Eviatar makes an interesting point. The Bush Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued legal advice that justified torture making it extremely hard for torturers to be prosecuted in the United States. But those legal memos...
Read MoreCould have just been a fluke but I’ve seen other cases of dolphins acting in an intelligent manner to protect humans. Sometimes they have fended off sharks that were intent on attacking humans.
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