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The Protocols of the 19th Century

April 19, 2010

[tweetmeme] Peter Robinson’s excellent work with the Uncommon Knowledge series recently included an interview with Victor Davis Hanson — the whole thing was fascinating, but I was particularly struck by this portion, which seems such an accurate description of my grandfather and my brother. Here’s an excerpt: Peter Robinson: Now here’s the question. Whereas the […]

Achilles Heel: Obama's Lack of an Economic Policy Narrative

April 17, 2010

Losing control: “Robert Reich, President Clinton’s Labor secretary, lamented that Obama’s failure to provide ‘a larger narrative’ to explain the causes of the crash and his response to it had left the public ‘susceptible to [conservative] arguments that its problems were founded in Big Government.’”

Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud by SEC

April 17, 2010

Boom: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc.—one of the few Wall Street titans to thrive during the financial crisis—was charged with deceiving clients by selling them mortgage securities secretly designed by a hedge-fund firm run by John Paulson, who made a killing betting on the housing market’s collapse.”

Elena Kagan and the White House

April 16, 2010

[tweetmeme] I have a piece at the Huffington Post today responding to the White House and others on Elena Kagan and the blowback for my post last week: I erroneously believed that Ms. Kagan was openly gay not because of, as Stein describes it, a “whisper campaign” on the part of conservatives, but because it […]

Bernanke: Moderate Growth

April 14, 2010

“On balance, the incoming data suggest that growth in private final demand will be sufficient to promote a moderate economic recovery in coming quarters…Significant restraints on the pace of the recovery remain, including weakness in both residential and nonresidential construction and the poor fiscal condition of many state and local governments.”

Spreading the Wealth Isn't Fair

April 14, 2010

Arthur Brooks: “There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.”

Obama's Nonexistent Soccer Game and Internet Conspiracies

April 13, 2010

[tweetmeme] Some people have a natural affinity for conspiracy theories. The fact that the number of Birthers on the right and 9/11 Truthers on the left is roughly equivalent provides some nice bipartisan symmetry, the yin and yang of whackadoo. Birther idiocy will hopefully evaporate when Obama leaves office, while the Truthers will be with […]

Congress Eliminates Own Health Care Plan via Obamacare

April 13, 2010

[tweetmeme] A few weeks back, I wrote about how senior staff on committees and in leadership offices were likely exempt from the requirements of Obamacare, thanks to carveouts within a provision of the bill. As I noted at the time, the problem with the mashed-up version of a bill like this is that it’s so […]

Episcopalians Reject Capitalism, Sell Church to Imam

April 12, 2010

[tweetmeme] It always amuses me when organizations and firms are so determined not to sell to someone they dislike, they’ll behave completely irrationally — bending over backwards and slashing their prices even when a higher offer is on the table. Here’s an example of that sort of behavior from the Episcopal Church, whose schism with […]

Gallup: Obama's Approval Drops to New Low

April 11, 2010

[tweetmeme] The latest numbers are horrid, and the raw data is here. Consider: in April of 2009, Obama had 63% approval, 28% disapproval. In April of 2010, he has only 45% approval, and 48% disapproval. Some of this is doubtless due to factors beyond the president’s control, and some of it due to the poor […]

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