Feb 09,2009
What do you do if you lost money to Madoff?
Brendan Conway has a good read on recourses for victims of Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme.
Feb 09,2009
Your daily dose of poverty porn
The International Herald Tribune provides one of the best examples I’ve seen yet of the burgeoning genre of poverty porn, with this glimpse of life in Katmandu: For all of...
Feb 09,2009
In honor of Reagan week, meet the new John Hinckley, Jr.
Once again puttings its unrivaled journalistic resources to excellent use, the New York Times offers a terrifying glimpse into the loneliness and paranoia of the obsessive psychopath: The other night...
Feb 09,2009
Will: “The best thing [Obama] has done as president…”
George Will: “The best thing [Obama] has done as president, and the most presidential, is to come out against the protectionism in this [stimulus], the Buy America provisions.” (Link opens...
Feb 09,2009
Reagan As Statesman: Learning From An Icon’s Mistakes
In contrast to the extraordinary insight that Ronald Reagan demonstrated with regard to the Soviet Union, his assessments of Nicaragua and Iran rested on a perilous measure of wishful thinking....