All of Obama's good work will be for naught if his team doesn't get the banking system functioning again.
The stock market knows what Treasury still needs to admit: the banks are bust. Their CEOs lack all credibility. Until they are nationalized the Dow will continue its very rational path downwards.
Were I to throw my hat in the ring as culture czar/NEA head, I would start with the following.
Why is Ellen Tauscher, head of the New Democrat Coalition, working so hard on behalf of bank and mortgage industry lobbyists?
The president who so often promises change from the failed economic policies of his predecessor is out-Bushing Bush -- the Obama deficit will eclipse the last five Bush deficits together.
Bernie Madoff set the standard that all financial schemes will be measured against. Fraud has become a competitive sport, and you've got to steal on a major scale to get any respect in the press.
Although the picture swirled around the 'nets last Friday, not many noticed the race angle.
Now is the time to take bold action to invest in programs that will create green, sustainable industries that will provide good jobs and provide long term economic and environmental benefits.
The problem with these efforts is that they will not fix the fundamental problem, but instead will simply push the problem -- the loss of home equity -- onto the next generation of homebuyers.
Dahling, you must get the latest Vogue. The March issue of the longtime fashion arbiter gives us a radiant Michelle Obama on the cover and a reverent tale.
The Republican Party, America's second oldest political party and a force in American politics and government since the time of Abraham Lincoln, died on March 1. It was 155 years old.
Rush Limbaugh leaned his meaty hands on the lectern at the CPAC conference and slipped a greasy dollar bill into the G-string of the writhing conservative dead-enders.
It used to be that if you tried to talk to someone, you only had to compete with the other people in the bar for their attention. Now, you also have to compete with whoever that person is texting.
If you were going to make ten million dollars in bonuses for taking high risks with other people's money, would you do it? The answer invariably is -- hell yes!
Since Ikram Goldman became the unofficial Secretary of Fashion to whom Michelle Obama turns for all her key sartorial decisions, East Coast arbiters of chic have been as twisted up as a braided leather belt.
The secret to hitting fifty home runs, to stealing a hundred bases, to pitching a perfect game, doesn't involve needles or pills -- the secret's in the produce section.
I'm really at a loss of what to make of Rush's performance on the whole. It was a rambling, sometimes incoherent, self-indulgent mess.
The contradiction between President Obama's speech at Camp Lejeune and his rhetoric before he was elected should serve as a warning to those who take his words at face value.
This year's gimmicky Benjamin Button cost $150 million, the superlative Milk cost just $15 million. Why not fund ten more Milk-type films and forego one Button?
