Obama may well get some Republicans to cross over and vote for a Democratic plan, but that strategy is not being bipartisan. It is being an astute partisan.
As founder of Craigslist, it seems right to say something about what I think of the idea on change.gov to create "a craigslist for service."
I feel as if we're sitting back again, waiting for Obama to be inaugurated so he can fix it all. Did "yes we can" really evaporate that quickly?
The film's plot is a contrivance -- its telling is so riddled with departures from what actually happened as to be fundamentally dishonest; and its climactic moment is purely and simply a lie.
Not since Soviet premier Khruschev took off his shoe and pounded it at the United Nations has anyone had the effect that an Iraqi journalist did when he hurled both his shoes at President Bush.
The radical shift in Powell's stance on LGBT issues should not give him a carte blanche. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell justified homophobia as a simple objection to a behavioral choice.
Back in January of 2006 I calculated the Ryan/Blagojevich corruption tax to be roughly $70 million and I asked people to refuse to play along.
When are we going to stop talking about Madoff's "victims" or "foolish investors" and instead ask investors to take responsibility for their own actions?
To the rapacious media: climb off your high horse and stop pretending you're shocked, shocked! Blagojevich is just doing publicly what the free market system has being doing privately for thirty years.
1. Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that shoe?
2. Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that second shoe?
The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.
Last week, I took a look around my apartment and realized that anything I haven't used by now I likely never will, because there is an endless stream of new things that keep coming.
Karl Rove understands better than anyone that George Bush needs as much wiggle room as possible to provide the pardons he and scores of his rogue colleagues expect.
The difference between criminal conduct and business as usual in the securities industry is a fine line. Madoff clearly did not have the expertise he claimed. At some point, he stopped trying.
Okay, I don't wanna say I told you so, but...
I will admit it took us the longest time to get properly introduced to Mr. Madoff, but that was part of his appeal.
Britney Spears' pop-tart image was created as a fantasy for the average man, but since her brush with the ugly side of fame, she's been subjected to the average female nightmare.
What if we could all throw our shoes at Bush? At Cheney? At Condi, Rummy, Paul, hell, let's throw in Blago here too now, just for a real treat. I'd pay to do it, wouldn't you?
For those of us raised on "Buy American," it was never about jingoistic claptrap, but about duty -- accepting the limits of Detroit's cars to support American manufacturing and jobs.
