Archive for March, 2009
Here’s Hoping
Bad news for Stanford investors: The court-appointed receiver in control of the assets and operations of Stanford Group Co and two other firms controlled by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford told a federal court Monday that … he could likely only recover hundreds of millions of dollars of Stanford assets for investors instead of the billions [...]
Sign Of The Times
Under the Obama administration’s new Transparency-and-Accountability policy — which applies to Bush-era mischief very selectively, at best — the Justice Department has posted nine Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos online. The Department of Justice web page from which the memos are accessed manages to capture the ambivalence of the Obama administration’s T-and-A policy perfectly: [...]
I Now Regret Not Going to Law School
I’m a big fan of obscure references and callbacks (news, right?), but I think I may have just had my mind completely blown. Several years ago, for a few weeks, the whole internet became obsessed with an interview with Harlem rapper Cam’ron in which he explained that any time he said or did anything that [...]
If At First You Don’t Succeed
This Bobby Jindal guy, if I were you I wouldn’t sell him short just because he totally bombed his first national address last week. The man has dogged perseverance down to a fine art. King Bruce’s spider probably takes lessons from him. Take that story he told last Tuesday night in his response to Barack [...]
All Hail Rush Limbaugh
On Saturday, Rush Limbaugh was scheduled to deliver a 20-minute speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. (CPAC). It turned out to be 90 minutes long instead. And not just Fox News but CNN too carried the whole darn thing live. And commercial-free. Looks like the de facto leader of the Republican [...]