I suggest removal of some body parts would not be out of line… for Corzine and perhaps a few others. =========== More than $1 billion of client money is still missing at failed brokerage MF Global, according to the bankruptcy trustee’s latest estimate. At Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the company’s principal regulator will try to explain how his agency... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Steven Chu, Energy CEO
November 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Global Warming, ObamaThe House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday held another hearing on the bankruptcy of taxpayer-backed Solyndra and, fortunately for the mere politicians present, the panel this time had access to the wisdom of a rock star energy CEO. To a packed hearing room, their star witness rattled off his business insights with the fluidity of a green Gordon Gekko. He flew... Read more
Lisa Jackson’s Freudian Slip – WSJ.com
November 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Global Warming, The LeftOps… =============== Psychoanalysis is usually the wrong way to understand politics, but the Obama Administration may be reviving the field with its Freudian slips. The latest to land on the couch is Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson, who gave an unintentionally candid interview this weekend with Thalia Assuras of Energy Now News. Ms. Jackson was asked about the EPA’s regulatory boom and... Read more
If Only Obama Had Been This Guy
November 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ObamaThe good news is that growing economies can afford a great deal of government, if not quite as much as the Europeans and the U.S. have promised themselves. The bad news is that “policy error” are the saddest words in the language. These words, starting in the 1960s, came to dominate serious post mortems on the Great Depression of the 1930s,... Read more
An English Thanksgiving, 1942
November 23 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtOh, to have been there… === By THOMAS FLEMING With Americans in uniform serving all over the world today, the idea of them celebrating Thanksgiving abroad does not strike anyone as unusual. With Americans locked in a world war in 1942, it certainly was. The hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops fighting the Axis powers in North Africa, the South Pacific and Europe celebrated... Read more
The Hillary Moment
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsNot to bad of an article here… ==== When Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson accepted the reality that they could not effectively govern the nation if they sought re-election to the White House, both men took the moral high ground and decided against running for a new term as president. President Obama is facing a similar reality—and he must reach the same... Read more
