Month: October 2013

Maybe it is because I grew up as the son of an advertising executive, next door to a senior partner at a major Manhattan law firm, with classmates whose parents worked at places like Cantor Fitzgerald or the Institute for...

From Friday, October 27, 2005, John and Tyrone discuss the crazification factor. This is required reading. John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his...

It’s kind of predictable that the Republican Party’s major donors are pissed off at the party right now. One top party fundraiser said the Wall Street financiers and corporate executives he counts on for support are...

Richard Cohen is an astoundingly bad writer for someone who has been in the business for decades. Yet, I am amused to see him ask John Boehner to submit to the guillotine. And then call it a bullet.

It is probably impossible to be a bigger moron than Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida. Now, Yoho is ready for a bigger fight. He doesn’t want to raise the debt ceiling — ever again. The experts, and Republican leaders, say that would...