Monthly Archives: May 2009
Busted
Edmund Andrews went bankrupt. He did it like most people by buying a house he couldn’t afford. The thing is he’s not like most people. He covers the Fed for the New York Times. And unlike most people, his solution to his problem was to write a tell-all book about his problem (here’s the short version in the Times Magazine). But it turns out he didn’t quite tell all. His wife went bankrupt twice before. Yvette Kantrow cuts him no slack in this Huffington Post piece.
Sotomayor
The president is all about minority life experience – except in the case of Clarence Thomas, as WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel rudely points out by quoting him. As for Judge Sotomayor’s non-Latina qualifications, Jeffery Rosen in TNR says he’s been told she’s, “not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench”. Gallup, however, shows that the public likes her and David Broder thinks the president once again has republicans right where he wants them.
Dear Fundraiser
North Korea blew up a cooling tower last June as part of a deal to get fuel oil from the U.S. What happened? Here’s a brief history.
Feb 20, 2007. (Click thumbnail to enlarge.)
