Author: Michael Matheron

Congressional Overpay Raise 0

Congressional Overpay Raise

“If they will only do their job that is all that they are being overpaid for.” David O. Selznick, on actors and actresses As the economy caves in, our elected officials will soon be...

Hitler Alive and Well in Pennsylvania, and Drinking from a Sippy Cup. 1

Hitler Alive and Well in Pennsylvania, and Drinking from a Sippy Cup.

1/15/2009: Given the recent news about the Campbells, this is an update of my original post. In this post I have italicized those quotes by Mr. and Mrs. Campbell that I made up to...

The No Regrets of the Regrettable Frank Gaffney, Jr. 0

The No Regrets of the Regrettable Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Who Knew? For those two or three humans now alive who don’t understand that Dick Cheney was uninterested in compiling honest intel prior to the Iraq invasion and occupation, that doubt was erased by...

Caroline and Hillary: Battling Biographies 0

Caroline and Hillary: Battling Biographies

Another Profile in Courage. The New York Time’s website today reported that Caroline Kennedy will seek the appointment from New York’s Governor to complete Hillary Clinton’s Senate term. “The decision came after a series...

Sole Man! 0

Sole Man!

MSNBC reports that President Bush deftly ducked a particularly difficult Iraqi heckler at his news conference in Iraq today: An Iraqi television journalist hurled two shoes at President Bush on Sunday during a joint...

Swing Low Alabama 0

Swing Low Alabama

At another website where yesterday’s TWSA! entry is stashed, iReport.com, a commenter pointed to her own entry about another hypocrisy in the strident southern resistance to the Big 3 plan. Here’s her blog entry:...

Horse & Buggy, Schmorse & Schmuggy 0

Horse & Buggy, Schmorse & Schmuggy

From Motley Fool’s CAPS Blogger, fooluser17: “As to the question of whether we should bail the companies out, whether or not it was the right thing to do: I take you back to a...

Big 3 Words for Senator Corker & Friends: “Not Dead Yet!” 1

Big 3 Words for Senator Corker & Friends: “Not Dead Yet!”

Yesterday, following the rude demise in the Senate of a legislative response, my hope for the Big 3 and, by extension, the economy, included most prominently the use of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)...

Republicans Shoot Out the Tires of the Economy 0

Republicans Shoot Out the Tires of the Economy

Welcome to the Lesser Depression. With a procedural vote of 52 to 35 the Senate voted to not proceed to consideration of the $14 Billion Big 3 auto loan package passed by the House...

Into the Blago Ditch, Day 2 1

Into the Blago Ditch, Day 2

Happy Birthday, Guv! Today, his 52nd birthday, the day after his arrest and release on bond, nonchalant renegade Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (see yesterday’s TWSA! entry) returned to his downtown Chicago office (pictured on...

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