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Turn On The Lights, Watch The Roaches Scatter, Part 57
An avalanche begins with a few small pebbles. US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that state and may influence others in the clash between bank practices and state real estate law. The ruling drove down bank stocks. The state Supreme […]
Public defender Finkelstein finds someone who’s not “part of the corrupt culture” for committee
The standoff that stalled efforts to hire Broward’s first-ever anti-corruption inspector general has ended. Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein appointed someone Friday to the committee that will hire the person. Finkelstein had refused to sit on that committee, saying to participate would be a conflict of interest because his office could represent the eventual accused, […]
On Fox & Friends, MRC’s Bozell Blasts NPR As Part of ‘Intolerant Left’
Appearing on FNC's Fox & Friends on Friday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reacted to the resignation of National Public Radio executive Ellen Weiss and credited the incoming Republican Congress: "NPR is hearing footsteps, their hearing the footsteps of Republicans, who are saying…what in the world are we doing spending hundreds […]
On Fox & Friends, MRC’s Bozell Blasts NPR As Part of ‘Intolerant Left’
Appearing on FNC's Fox & Friends on Friday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reacted to the resignation of National Public Radio executive Ellen Weiss and credited the incoming Republican Congress: "NPR is hearing footsteps, their hearing the footsteps of Republicans, who are saying…what in the world are we doing spending hundreds […]
On Fox & Friends, MRC’s Bozell Blasts NPR As Part of ‘Intolerant Left’
Appearing on FNC's Fox & Friends on Friday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reacted to the resignation of National Public Radio executive Ellen Weiss and credited the incoming Republican Congress: "NPR is hearing footsteps, their hearing the footsteps of Republicans, who are saying…what in the world are we doing spending hundreds […]
The Best Officers Are Leaving the Military – Part II
[Part 1 is from Uncle Jimbo here and a response from Mother Jones which Jimbo takes on here.] Since the mid-80s (when I decided to go for a Commission), I’ve heard about the brain drain on the military. Mentioning this recurring meme in the media, someone called me on it. In response, Gregory McNeal responds […]
Facebook’s rule-bending, Part II
Jon Stewart notices Facebook’s belief that transparency is good for everyone but them: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook Ezra Klein
Turn On The Lights, Watch The Roaches Scatter, Part 55
The possible settlement by all 50 state AGs with the banks on Foreclosuregate may have just run into a concrete barrier in the Bay State. Massachusetts’s highest court is poised to rule on whether foreclosures in the state should be undone because securitization-industry practices violate real- estate law governing how mortgages may be transferred. The […]
Be Part of the Staff Shuffle
The White House is looking for its next batch of summer interns. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire
Why science-based (dire) warnings are an essential part of good climate messaging – Nature’s Matt Kaplan blows the story
Back in November I explained how the media blew the story of UC Berkeley study on climate messaging. That study found the best message is also the most science-based: Doing nothing risks “many devastating consequences” but “much of the technology we need already exists.” We just need to deploy it already! Brad Johnson also discussed […]
Crossing The Rubin Con, Part 2
After Adam Serwer quite neatly disposed of her inane twaddle on the New Black Panther Party yesterday, Jennifer Rubin responds to Serwer with “Nuh-uh. You’re wrong, I’m right!” and manages to double down on her own unique brand of fail. Let’s take them in order. Adam asserts: “Republican congressmen Lamar Smith and Darrell Issa are […]
Early fireworks in the new Congress, Part Three
(Paul) A reader who has first-hand experience from the 1990s playing “chicken” with debt ceiling votes tells me that “there’s no useful political leverage” to be gained from the exercise. He compares threats to withhold raising the debt ceiling with threats to nuke the old Soviet Union – “superficially powerful, but actually too dreadful to […]
Understanding inequality, Part II
In response to this post, Brookings’s Gary Burtless wrote in with some helpful comments on inequality and median incomes that I want to quote at length. Standard disclaimer: I’ve made light edits for space and clarity. I asked what made inequality jump so sharply in 1987. Probably the tax-reform bill, Burtless says, which convinced a […]
Turn On The Lights, Watch The Roaches Scatter Part 55
Big news breaking this morning in Foreclosuregate: Bloomberg is reporting that the 50 state Attorneys General may have reached a settlement with the five largest mortgage banks. The five largest loan servicers, including Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., may be the first to settle with the 50 state attorneys general probing […]
Whitewashing Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Part 99,999
If it’s Tuesday (or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc., etc.), it’s Political Correctness Run Amok Day in America’s education establishment. The latest salvo? A publishing house will release p.c.-policed versions of both The Adventures of Huck Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with the words “nigger” and “Injun” deleted. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn […]
