That said, if you remember when GEICO was only for actual government employees, and when the Slovenian Community Credit Union required appropriate ancestry, you will perhaps be amused by a single provider plan which could, I think, result from executive vigor (if only we had a vigorous executive...) with no tiresome legislative hoorah-ing.
On the occasion of another audio greeting from the Wit of Waziristan perhaps we can profitably review the box score thus far. At really trivial cost in manpower and money, ‘Sama has turned the United States into the stumbling pitiful...
Prez having famously declared himself ready, even eager, to fight the banks side by side with his new BFF, Paul Volcker, he elicits a soupcon of cynicism from one experienced political observer. Robert Reich (may I say, the incomperable Prof....
Students of legal history arcana share a chuckle whenever a claim to consitutional rights is made by a state chartered business entity. Only the elevation to jurisprudence of a footnote to an 1886 Supreme Court decision creates the dilemma we...
From the LA Times, a cautionary tale: Multiple men separated from their cash, and not even a “Trick Willie is Back In Town” t-shirt to show for it. “For would-be sugar daddies perusing SeekingMillionaire .com — “the meeting place for...
Who would have thought that this extortionate scumbag would turn out to point the way towards public option heaven? Having received the (totally proper) assurance that the expansion of medicaid eligibility would not redound to the fiscal detriment of Nebraska,...
“Hard cases”, it is said, make “bad law”. We like the outcome, but we deplore the rule. The news from Swat presents just such a confrontation between a tremendously felicitous result (a genuine Taliban surrender!!—they actually found someone to play...
As turmoil swirls around the House-Senate Conference (*or lack thereof….) may we not profitably wonder whether the identity of the “target audience” for the messaging that is without peradventure in progress is immediately obvious? Assume, arguendo, that Prez recognizes the...
Ex CIA (Afghanistan Station) Henry Crumpton chatting with the dumbest man on TV (pace Aunt Sam…) unburdens himself thusly (from memory): “Besides the 20% “hard power” that we must bring to this war, 80% involves…empowering the people, giving them electricity...
Why can’t we be smart like the French? The body functioning in the judicial review mode that we associate with our supreme court sticks the shiv in Nick’s (otherwise far reaching and laudible) carbon tax. (Yes, that’s the smart and...
Secure in the knowledge that dogs cannot get the internet from their mangers (pace Jacob Hacker), consider the following scenario: If Prez intended all along to use reconciliation for this bill, (knowing that the search for 60 senate votes is...
It comes to this. The very new democracy of Kenya, born in blood, gives lessons to the supercilious heirs of the original anti-colonial revolution., A junior member of the Commonwealth is called on to vindicate Magna Carta, abused for so...
Do I alone find it odd that as he gropes about for the elusive path out of the Pashtun thicket, Prez sees no contraindication to a drug policy that amounts to the expenditure of 80 billion public dollars to keep...
Endocrinology is destiny.(OK, I made up the part about the army study) However, I was in Afghanistan just whenTom Ricks was, and his assessment is accurate. I met 12 year old boys in the market (one sold me an ounce...
Mike Ross and his fellow Blue Dogs have been beating the rest of the House and Senate Dems about the head and shoulders everytime any sensible health care reform promises negatively to impact the near term deficit numbers. In particular,...
We are not alone who watch in horror as Prez morphs into Lyndon Johnson. Somewhere, Colin Powell weeps. Quiet as it is kept, if Alma had the stones of Michelle, the first black president would have been a Republican. The...
The parties with the most profound interest in continuing the socially destructive, financially ruinous, politically corrupting and constitutionally unjustifiable prohibition on the use by otherwise autonomous individuals of exogenous neurotransmission modifiers are the franchisors and franchisees of the current distribution...
The unfortunate return to prime ministerial power of Benjamin Netanyahu renders freshly disturbing his 2004 remarks anticipating eventual copulatory defeat for his co-religionists. Evidently unconsoled by a five to one head start, Bibi seems convinced that in the long run,...
“a stunning surprise” hardly begins to encompass the enormity!… But the back and forth over endeavor vs. success has blinded us to the brilliance of the prize committee’s work….. Update:(h/t Garrett Utley); That seismic rumble, barely audible beneath the hubub...
