The Stopped Clock

I stumbled across some pro-"tort reform" pablum from George Will - a pretty standard, "I read a book, accepted its allegatio...

Well, at least Alaska got a different Senator.... But there's a real story here, and not just about Ted Stevens. It's exceptional fo...

Apparently the head photographer for BusinessWeek was convinced by... perhaps Roddy Piper... to "put on the glasses," and has rev...

It's so hard to keep young people interested in religion these days. Got any ideas ? Legislation allowing underage Jews to drink beer du...

With due respect to the defense of oversized financial industry bonuses, unrelated to profit or performance, can industry insiders please ma...

Blame Joe the Electrician ! None of us should be cheated of our payments any more than a plumber should be cheated after he has fixed the pi...

Health insurance companies appear to believe so . The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial...

Just curious: Will those participating in the Geithner Plan's "markets" to buy up toxic securities be forbidden from holding o...

I'm obviously missing something big here. The Geither Plan creates public-private funds that can bid for securities presently held by ba...

First the facts : Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — th...

Josh Marshall offers a reader comment on the proposed 90% tax of bonuses. There's no indication that the Senate will pass a 90% tax - q...

One of the puzzling things about Geithner is that, if he truly believes in his policy as the best policy, he's done so little outreach t...

I've been debating with CWD about whether or not I should have suggested that Geithner could be a "dedicated, hard-working public ...

In keeping with its long pattern of unnecessarily granting anonymity, often in violation of its own policies, the New York Times recites , B...

Fiddling while Rome burns.... [Insert cliché of your choice here.] The point of calling on Congress to come up with the type of "Chapte...

Brad DeLong provides his summary of how the Geithner plan would work. It still sounds like a phenomenal deal for the private investors who ...

Tom Friedman shares his insights.... If you want to guarantee that America becomes a mediocre nation, then just keep vilifying every public...

Was that an ambiguous title? It works both ways. Seriously, how can I make sense of this ? Why do Geithner and Obama believe its okay to kee...

One of the unexpected aspects of staying in a hotel high in the Andes was the ready availability of a local treatment for altitude sickness ...

But abandoning any shred of dignity in the process? Michael Gerson recites from the latest party memo : The most famous piece of legislation...