Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …
Shiver me timbers and I be shiverin yers From The Devil’s Brethren: the Evolution of Pirate Counter Culture in the Caribbean, by Timothy L. Sullivan: [P]irates…were a relatively conservative population with a mix of traditional and progressive characteristics. They were egalitarian, with little differentiation between the members of the crews; democratic in decision making, electing captains and deposing them when …
A large swath of the American public— led by ratings-mad media mavens and immoral politicians like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin— has declared all-out war on “the Other”. . .
To be sure, there are a lot of fat-cat politicians, on both sides of the political aisle. And you can safely bet most of them aren’t able to think any better than they actually eat. Newton Leroy Gingrich is a great example of what I mean.
Joe Kieyoomia was a young Navajo soldier from New Mexico. In April of 1942, he was captured by the Japanese when the Allied forces surrendered the Philippines. . .
