Marty Aussenberg is a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer, in which an earlier version of this piece appeared. He is a former SEC enforcement official (back when its reputation was still intact), and is currently an attorney...
Read MoreI’m not saying it is necessarily a good thing that Italians are occupying trains stations and airport runways because they hate Silvio Berlusconi and don’t want him to be their president prime minister anymore. But...
Read MoreSomewhere Republican Jesus is crying tonight. Why? Because apparently stem cells have been used to cure a man who was infected with AIDS. “The man received bone marrow from a donor who had natural resistance to HIV...
Read MoreIt looks like Obama won’t have any difficulty getting his tax compromise passed. I watched Jon Kyl extolling its virtues on the Senate floor this morning. What really struck me was the sight of Jon Kyl talking up the...
Read MoreI know what I want to be when I grow up. A bank. A really, really big bank with a Republican Sugar Daddy like — oh, say — this guy: Rep. Spencer Bachus House Republicans on WednesÂday promoted Bachus to chairman of...
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