Posted Size matters, on Wall Street to Feeding the Shark
I don't share Obama's belief that the size of financial institutions doesn't matter.
Posted Document dump to Feeding the Shark
The Obama administration is getting very good at the Thursday-afternoon "document dump."
Posted Journalists, generalists to Feeding the Shark
This didn't get much attention, but Chuck Todd's question at Obama's presser the other night -- basically, whether the U.S. military would secure Pakistan's nukes if the Taliban took over -- didn't make much sense at all.
Posted Tortured exceptions to Feeding the Shark
The OLC memos certainly didn't permit killing prisoners, but 100 detainees have died in our custody and more than two dozen of those have been ruled homicides.
Posted Sometimes overreacting is good to Feeding the Shark
This was an unknown disease circulating in rural Mexican villages a few weeks ago, and now a majority of the world's population probably knows what it is and how to protect themselves.
Posted To the slaughterhouses! to Feeding the Shark
Egypt is taking a draconian approach to stopping swine flu.
Posted Reality check from Pakistan to Feeding the Shark
A reality check on the apocalyptic pronouncements of doom coming out of Pakistan.
Posted Bringing home the bacon to Feeding the Shark
The Iowa Pork Producers Association has a press release about Harkin's comments; he's obviously concerned about the name, swine flu, hurting bacon sales.
Posted Immigrants and microbes to Feeding the Shark
Hutchison, it seems, wants the CDC to check every traveler returning from Mexico for symptoms of swine flu. That's unrealistic. It's also startingly similar to the hard-line solutions for illegal immigration and terrorism.
Posted Moderate voices to Feeding the Shark
Who would rethink the GOP? The Republican Party doesn't have any strong moderate voices.
Posted Burying the mountaintop mining rule to Feeding the Shark
Environmental groups never liked the rule, since it basically allowed coal companies to bury streams under a pile of rock. Salazar was pretty blunt about the problems with the rule:
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