Month: April 2009

What does Easter mean to you, if anything?

In a previous note I unfairly sneered that Left Blogistan’s Progressive Intellectuals had failed to come up with a progressive plan for bank reform. But, be still my  heart, OpenLeft and Jane and others have produced...

When Obama was in London for the G20 Summit, he made the following remark that seems to have disturbed not a few conservatives: “There’s been a lot of comparison here about Bretton Woods… you know, last time you… saw the entire...

We need to fight fire with a blow torch. (pun thoroughly intended) If they think that they can get the common schmucks to giggle and send their pathetic tea bags in order to promote more giveaways in tax cuts for the rich...

You’d think she’d be more worried about whether her husband will get indicted for war crimes. But Laura has one curiosity about the Obamas that she cannot shake, friends said. Before leaving the White House, she...