May 18, 2009

Geithner's Radioactive Record at the Fed

Last week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner admitted the Fed failed miserably during his tenure as New York Fed president, and contributed mightily to the financial calamity the world is digging out from under.  Geithner conceded massive...

November 4, 2007

Electric Power Generation vs. Soft America

The estimable Michael Barone wrote an excellent  book in 2005 titled Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future. Inspired by a column he wrote in 2003, the book posits that there ar...

September 27, 2007

Financial Woes for the New York Times

New York Times Company's reported financial results, outlook, and stock price  keep getting hammered by poor business performance. Having announced it will pay $125 million in dividends, the company must increase its profits if it is to avoid fu...

August 3, 2007

Global Warming Propaganda Factory

I have often wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well, I wonder no more. Recently, I came across a website for the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).  http://www.sej.org/  This w...

May 11, 2007

Trivializing National Security

Yesterday, House Democrats once again showed the electorate why they cannot be entrusted with the nation's national security. Incredibly, the Democrats are insisting that the Intelligence Authorization Act include a provision funding a glob...

April 15, 2007

The Defective "War Czar" Narrative

On Wednesday, Peter Baker and Tom Ricks wrote a front page story in the Washington Post that reported that the White House allegedly is trying to recruit a "War Czar." Since then the narrative they created has become the...

March 29, 2007

No One Ever Expects the Waxman Inquisition

Its always instructive to do a little research to discover how various politicians conducted themselves on comparable issues in years gone by. I thought it would be interesting to look at how the Bush Administration's current chief tormentor Congress...

March 17, 2007

Gov. Richardson: For the Entertainment Value

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico probably doesn't have much of a shot at the Democrats' presidential nomination. But as a Hispanic, he is considered a definite possibility for the veep slot. If only for the entertainment value, he deserves seri...

July 3, 2006

Cheating

Bronx native, Vince Ferrari pulled off one the best publicity stunts of the year catching an AOL Time Warner representative on tape attempting to prevent him from canceling his AOL Internet account. Ferrari spent more than 21 minutes being left on ho...

March 10, 2006

The Antique Media's Internet Follies

How the mighty have fallen. The media and publishing oligopolies are on the way out, thanks to competition — first talk radio, then cable news, and now the internet and other bandwidth—expanding technologies. The old companies and in...

February 17, 2006

Vince Foster and Dick Cheney

Some observers have compared the White House's handling of Dick Cheney's accident to Vince Foster's suspicious death in the summer of 1993. This comparison has been drawn mostly on the basis of delays in disclosure in both cases. We know now the Clin...