Month: September 2009

I had a conversation last night with a banker who is doing the preparatory work for handing his bank’s loan portfolio over to Nama (the National Asset Management Agency).  He argued that the total book value of the...

Per Juan Cole, the three most popular selections in the Guantanamo Bay prison library are: 1. The Harry Potter novels 2. Cervantes’ Don Quixote 3. Barack obama’s Dreams from my Father Shakespeare gets no...

Whoever is creating hundreds of phony spam user accounts at this site, if I figure out who you are, I will see that you are prosecuted or take other legal action against you. I will report your IP addresses to Gmail, Yahoo,...

Really. What’s the point? What benefit is there to meekly seeking compromise with people who are simply crazy, mean, nasty liars, like this guy: Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) believes that President Obama is bent on turning the...

The caption of an AP photo of the Beitar Ilit settlement (city) in the West Bank reads: The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...