Month: May 2012

I’m actually happy that our effort to train Iraqi police officers is a total failure and is being largely abandoned. It’s not that I don’t want the Iraqis to have effective and well-equipped police. And...

Hmmm… With all the talk about JPMorgan’s losses out of the CIO’s office, nobody is discussing the money the firm made on Friday due to the accounting magic called DVA. After all, CIO’s positions were (at...

When I was born in 1956, whooping cough, or pertussis was a serious childhood illness that still killed kids. A bacterial disorder it often isn’t diagnosed until antibiotics are much less ineffective. I had whooping cough...

Is seems like everyone is riffing off Romney’s high school bullying incident. Edmund White is particularly brutal in the New Yorker, while Georgia Logothetis blisters Romney at Daily Kos. I’m a little impatient with...

At the end of a painful article on Romney’s efforts to pivot to the center, John Harwood writes this for the New York Times: Four years ago, the relatively inexperienced Mr. Obama sought to build his stature with a speech...