The Obama Bank Plan
Well, calling the administration's financial reform proposal a "plan" is something of an exaggeration. According to the White House's own release, the administration simply wants to "strengthen the comprehensive financial reform package that is already moving through Congress," though there are real differences between Barney Frank's House bill and Chris Dodd's Senate bill.
How will the [...]
Polanski Peel-Out Pool
I’m setting up a “betting” pool. Not with real money, of course; we have no way to force losers to pony up. This is just a fantasy-bet pool.
Pick how many days will elapse from Roman Polanski’s release under “house arrest” until he splits down the Alps — on the French side.
Choices range from [...]
Our ‘Clueless-in-Chief’ (Update)
Barack Obama brings new meaning to the word “clueless.”
Take ACORN for example: He don’t know nothing about ACORN getting a whole lot of money from the federal government, and the subject of ACORN just isn’t worth talking about (My guess is that he particularly doesn’t want to talk about the $800,000 he stealthly paid ACORN [...]
Downfall
Human Rights Watch is in the bunker, imagining that their legions of supporters are out in the field just awaiting new orders, but the end is near. HRW’s latest feeble attempt to push back on the true story of how they came to hire a wanna-be Nazi as their senior military affairs specialist consists of [...]
Study Shows 50 Percent of Women Should be Legally Required to Take Husband’s Name?
Unlike Jessica Valenti, I do not have thousands of words to write about the gender constructs, ingrained sexism, and patriarchal sensibilities inherent in the great debate over whether women should take their husbands’ last names when they marry.
I like my name. It’s part of who I am, and the identity I’ve forged, and Ham comes [...]
Our Take on That Whole Big Sarah Palin Thing with Ace of Spades and Ed Morrissey, as Filtered Through Our Man Karl
Karl — that Hot Air guy who sometimes throws a crumb or two to Patterico (and never even once to me, the villain!) — reposted on Patterico’s Pontifications what he had already reposted on Hot Air (with some commentary in the identical posts): Ace of Spades’ comment in one of the threads of his [...]
