Are bankers somehow more aware than ordinary Americans that recessions happen, companies fold, people lose their jobs?

This was not the speech of a man who even contemplates the possibility of using force within the next year to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. This was not the speech of a man who thinks America needs to be reminded about the dangers out there in the world

So Obama just said, though not in these words, that he does not intend to make renewal energy profitable. He intends to make non-renewable energy unprofitable.

Dissenters in the midst dare not wear their contrarian ribbons for fear of more punitive Proposition 8 backlash.

Given the literal meaning of the word “genocide” — namely, the extermination of a people as such — to describe a single massacre, however bloody, as “genocide” represents an obvious logical howler

I guess the new era of “transparency” does not extend to Congress OR “Avenue Q.”

President Obama is merely following in the steps of former President Clinton who made porn in the White House so common it was kind of scoffed at as an afterthought to his administration.

I certainly haven't read everything (let alone the terrifying thousand-plus pages [of the stimulus bill] themselves).

If you hear a whirring sound in the background it is my dad Ronald Reagan, who loved and served this nation, spinning in his grave as his latest successor plunges a carving knife into America's vital organs.

The British Empire's principal association with slavery is that it abolished it. [ ... ] When a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia.

The way things are going in Britain it would make more sense to drop the word "Balls".

That's nearly $300 billion targeted for two industries [healthcare and education] that have minimal influence on job creation or improving our sluggish stock market.

The stock market doesn't think it's funny.

 

In my opinion the financial collapse was caused not only by the Dems of Fannie and Freddie Fame, in tandem with the CRA, but also as a consequence of the Pelois Drilling policy which drove up oil and gold and forced higher interest rates on the Fed. All it took was the $550 Billion run on the money markets by Vladie Putin, Georgie Soros and Friends and we're in the toilet but good.