But which one? Full Story
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 : Meanwhile, back at the shamolic economy, courtesy those lovable buffoons known as our government, the word in the wind is that a big US bank is about to implode... But which one? Full Story Monday, August 18, 2008 : After watching the presidential forum at Rick Warren's Saddleback church on Saturday, I was amazed at how complimentary the media has been of John McCain's performance. The media was so kind to McCain after the forum that they missed (or ignored) the biggest jaw-dropper of the night -- his answer to the question of which Supreme Court justices he would not have nominated. Full Story : Among the hired guns and tonsils that represent American Business interests at every level, and in every noook and cranny of America, my vote for the most shameless hack is the one and only Neil Cavuto of Fox. While many others on Fox and CNBC and the major broadcast channels mouth the same line--notably Lawrence Kudlow--Cavuto appears to be the standard bearer for the "business is sooooo ethical" scam. Thursday, August 14, 2008 : Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act following the Enron debacle, the business community has ascribed every form of evil to that law. Hannah Clark of Forbes once described how the business world feels about the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act this way:
According to critics, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused a litany of ills: Executives are retiring early, public companies are going private, foreign firms are listing abroad and U.S. firms are losing their competitive edge. The sweeping law, written in the wake of the Enron scandal, has served as a scapegoat for all the evils facing corporate America since it was passed in 2002.The legislation has been demonized by "libertarians" large (the Cato Institute) and small (John Stossel). But guess what... Tuesday, August 12, 2008 : Ever notice that any attempt—any attempt at all—to restrain corporate actions in any way—any way at all—immediately produces a spate of articles and studies showing that the attempt is outrageous (or destructively expensive or costing jobs or putting the US at a disadvantage or contrary to the universal desires of God and nature)? Take corporate taxes (I wish the government would take some). Full Story Monday, August 11, 2008 : According to USA Today, the much insipid TSA has decided it's time to take on general aviation... Sort of, that is.... Full Story Tuesday, August 05, 2008 : So Obama has the audacity to point out that under-inflated tires can save as much oil--now--as we might obtain from the GOPs new drilling proposals--years from now. Well, it doesn't take the GOP (Geniuses on Parade) long to think, "Eureka! This could be Obama's Dukakis in a tank moment. Assemble the ridicule brigades! Call up the derision squad and arm them with extra irony and exclamation points!!!!!!!" But..... Full Story Monday, August 04, 2008 : The great Texas progressive Jim Hightower has occasionally been urged to moderate his insistence on fundamental change. His response is a classic of disdain: "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos." As it writes its 2008 platform, the Democratic Party should remember Hightower's wisdom. This is no time to be going backward, either on principle or as a tactical concession. Full Story Sunday, August 03, 2008 : Everybody considers Barack Obama through the self-reflective prism of his blackness while pretending to ignore the fact that Obama is black. White Democratic primary voters made all manner of unsupported assumptions about Obama based largely on his skin. There was absolutely no indication that he was a progressive true believer. Full Story Tuesday, July 29, 2008 : I used to electronically converse with a born again Christian who used a retrospective definition of “Christian.” In his view, people who did bad things could never be Christians, because Christians don’t do bad things. That little loop of illogic seems to run deep through right wingers, whether they be Christian or other. So let’s talk about good old Mr. Adkisson, who just went berserk in that Unitarian Universalist (UU) church in Tennessee.
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