“If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these [Goldman Sachs] meetings, you would believe that a client’s success or progress was not part of the thought process at all.” — Greg Smith in resigning as a Goldman Sachs Executive Director via The New York Times oped page today.
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Can Rick Santorum Put it Together?
The growing question is not how does one stop Mitt Romney’s inexorable march to the Republican nomination, but how does one stop Rick Santorum — if he can put it together. The former Pennsylvania senator looked like a winner to me on stage last night in Louisiana, not because he had just won the Alabama and Mississippi […]
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If Newt Gingrich wins tonight in Alabama and Mississippi it will be a dog bites man story. But he loses — even if he gets second in one of the races — I’d expect him to begin his exit strategy. I have been wrong a couple of times on the former Georgia congressman exiting the race, but […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stop Apologizing in Afghanistan
A U.S. serviceman with a traumatic brain injury cracked this week in Afghanistan and tragically killed civilians. A single apology is in order, and those families should be helped in every way possible. But all we are hearing these days out of the U.S. State Department and from our President are endless apologies – […]
Read the rest of this entry »Pension Debt: The Unfillable Pothole
Danny Hakim of The New York Times pens an outstanding piece today about a cancer methodically eating away at America. The cost of public employee pensions is not the sexiest issue — the screaming bone fractures normally get the headlines — but it is one of the most significant challenges facing the country, with tremendous […]
Read the rest of this entry »New York’s War on Small Business
“One Last Time; How Much Salt Do You Put in Your Crust?!” A friend and client running in a special election for the New York State Assembly next week captured in a single sentence exactly why businesses, small and large, have been fleeing the Empire State. The candidate, Rich Wager, had just finished a tour […]
Read the rest of this entry »What’s Pericles Got to Do with It?
Nicholas Kristof files his latest defense of Keynesian economics from Athens, which is published in today’s New York Times. He is beginning to sound like — hold your ears — Paul Krugman. Mr. Kristoff argues in the very same space that Greek society is structurally broken and corrupt, and that its government should pour massive amounts of borrowed […]
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If Newt Gingrich were to drop out of the presidential race, Rick Santorum would have a legitimate shot at the Republican nomination for President. I don’t think the same goes for Newt Gingrich if Rick Santorum dropped out, but it doesn’t matter what I think. Mr. Gingrich thinks he would end up on top if […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Rich Lowry
“No one writing a political science textbook would ever recommend running a campaign the way Santorum does–on gut instinct and without ever delivering a speech that is written down. What he loses in crispness by this approach he gains in sincerity.” — Rich Lowry, 02-08-12
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Some days you just need a story like this one.
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