As Jamie Dimon says, we need less regulation of banks who take taxpayer-backed money to the casino: And then, last night, JPMorgan Chase announced it had lost $2 billion on some very big, very dumb hedges. For proponents of stricter financial regulation, Dimon's giant loss...
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Elizabeth Foley upholds the standards one would expect of a poster at Instapundit. According to Foley, a civil rights lawsuit filed against Joe Arpaio shows that liberals hate free speech:.
The modern Republican Party: creating myths about what the Founders thought out of thin air yet actually opposing what the Founders invented while screaming tyranny. The latest example of the.
Isn't that what Abu Ghraib was all about? In 1965, an effeminate student named John Lauber showed up with "bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye." “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close...
Speaking of Josh Trevino, he tries out a line that I've seen in a few places -- including some liberals who should know better: "Forgot to congratulate Barack Obama for.
I know it's shocking that conservatives would support both bullying and homophobia. In case you had forgotten this, allow me to present you with Josh Treviño's response to this story.
Since Mann and Ornstein have written a book that tells truths inconvenient to high Broderism, their numbers have fallen out of the Sunday talk show rolodex. Relatedly, the late Dick Lugar wishes to inform you that both parties are equally guilty, and he has some...
A particularly well-informed and perceptive law professor points out that many law faculty have tended to live in a kind of bubble that, for ethnographic reasons, makes it difficult for.
Andrew Cohen has an excellent tribute to the late Nicholas Katzenbach, a key Justice Department official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations for whom the term "best and brightest" wouldn't.
Certainly Obama took a political risk today, but Noam Scheiber succinctly sums up the bind this puts Romney in. Now, a politician with more credibility among conservatives might be willing to take the hit to preserve his general-election prospects. Perhaps more importantly, such a person...
Obama coming out for marriage equality today was obviously the right thing on the merits. But will it hurt him politically? I argue that 1)such claims are extremely implausible, and.
On this date in 1934, longshoremen on the West Coast walked off their jobs, beginning of the largest strikes in the history of the region and helping feed the move.