If the guarantees work, private speculators, having driven the stock down, will clean up on the upside. And the bank's CEOs will continue to pocket the multi-million dollar salaries. Call it Wall Street socialism.
McCain's call for an "integrated" "multi-front" plan for victory in Aghanistan is just gobbledygook for "stay the course but make tweaks around the margins."
Indifference to economics does not explain the prominence of Phil Gramm in the McCain campaign during the U.S. financial crisis. Indifference to the folks losing their homes is a more plausible explanation.
Planted between these two chairs, the suggestion in this NYT image is that Lieberman is straddling between the two parties.
I want to have something to say when others talk about Mamma Mia!, so I did some remedial reading about its history. Let what I learned about ABBA serve as a primer.
My problem isn't that Obama doesn't always agree with me. My problem is that he has started to not always agree with himself -- falling prey instead to the Conventional Wisdom sirens.
A woman was arrested for accepting a $100 gas card from a man in exchange for sex. Gas cards are a tangible reminder of American inventiveness when it comes to money.
"The Sunnis are in Czechoslovakia. The Shiites are in Persia. Where is the Internet?"
A bonanza of advertising narratives, hardly critical of China, are now about to appear globally -- including ads illustrating how Coca Cola connects China benevolently to other cultures by using the Olympics as a bridge.
McCain was not just a supporter of the war, but was perhaps the most vocal advocate of invading Iraq in Congress. This doesn't simply represent bad judgment -- it represents a completely bankrupt worldview.
Access to contraception is essential and smart public policy. In its waning days, the Bush administration has shown it will stop at nothing to attack women's health care.
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