Some Crazy Possibilities And Probabilities
The weather I have this morning is cold and wet and dreary, so here’s a post to match that mood. Let’s pick, pretty much at random, four of this year’s crop of truly lunatic Republican Senate...
View ArticleForeclosure Crisis Rides Again
On September 29, the Washington Post had an article (by Ariana Eunjung Cha) about the brewing foreclosure mess which talked about “allegations of forged documents and signatures and other similar...
View ArticleMiller-time In Alaska
If there are three things we know that Tea Partiers solemnly believe in, it’s freedom, liberty and fiscal responsibility. Okay, so that’s really two things. But freedom/liberty is really, really...
View ArticleSome Crazy Possibilities And Probabilities: An Update
On October 14, I had a post about the probabilities assigned by Nate Silver to victories by four of the crazier Republican Senate candidates. Now that we are five days older and wiser, how does it...
View ArticleForeclosure Paperwork Problems Fixed PDQ
On Thursday, October 1, Bank of America announced that it was suspending all foreclosures in 23 states “where courts have jurisdiction over foreclosures”. (The bank later went on to suspend all...
View ArticleMeet David J. Stern, Alleged Fraudulent Foreclosure King
For a while, we’ve been hearing about fraudulent mortgage paperwork being rampant — across different banks, across different parts of the country — including forged documents, but without any specific...
View ArticleOur Sometimes Non-Existent Nuclear Weapons Capability
Hugh Shelton was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Bill Clinton‘s second term. In his just published memoir, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior he tells a strange little...
View ArticleThe More The Merrier?
As if peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghanistan government weren’t already fraught with enough complications, Pakistan wants to get into the act too. Underlining the constructive role...
View ArticleCruel Halloween Trick
Meg Whitman was hoping for a treat, but California voters seem to have played a cruel Halloween trick on her instead. Unless something rather unexpected happens in the next week, she is going to get...
View ArticleRand Paul, Man Of Principles
(1) The gloss on Rand Paul has been that he is one of those lunatic libertarians who allow themselves to be hypnotized by their least-government-is-always-best principles into embracing some truly...
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