Yes, once again, Mr. and Ms. Taxpayer, you may be about to hold the bag for a failing financial institution, infusing these firms with the money they need to keep buying and selling mortgage debt.
What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Los Angeles' Larchmont Boulevard? None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart.
I get the joke. But dressing up perhaps the next president of the United States as the new millennium equivalent of Hitler is just gross and dumb. Anything would have been better.
The last time I think a prime time NBC show originated anywhere in Vietnam, it was a Bob Hope special, he was entertaining the troops on some base and it certainly wasn't live.
McCain's national spokesman said he doesn't "review some of the regional media." In other words, the campaign would like to define its national agenda by what's reported in the Washington Post.
I'm sure you've already seen analysis as to why it's so bad. Here is the actual "what" of what's wrong.
In the coming months, with the Obama campaign in full swing, we can hope that race has, indeed, taken a back seat to capable leadership. We must also embrace the possibility that it hasn't.
Just as our billionaires still go on their boats, so also, in New York, often criticized by outsiders for its shallowness and greed, authentic gestures of friendship and generosity endure.
FOX got lucky because Jackson slipped inside their recording studio, a place so intimately familiar to broadcast journalists that even ambiguous conventions go unchecked.
Neither our citizenry nor those in government has petitioned or acted to seriously cut back this nation's voracious oil consumption, the largest by far on the planet.
From England, the view of the states is much clearer than the one enjoyed by us -- our faces stuffed into Old Glory like hostages' noses pressed up against a chloroform-saturated hanky.
The amount of money banks are setting aside to absorb losses is increasing, as is the amount of money they are charging off. Neither of these are good developments.
