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When did Burry get waterboarded? He did get thrown out of an operating room when he fell asleep while operating on a patient. This is one insider who claims he was for more regulation, in hindsight.

The guy is 68 and probably had a stroke while driving. Don't you have sympathy for ex-CEOs?

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/jon-stewart-gets-it-right-about-foxnews/question-1907797/ Adam Serwer: "The Problem With Politfact's Work On This Is That They're Really Comparing Apples And Oranges." In a June 22 American Prospect post, Adam Serwer wrote: The problem with Politfact's...

Right, probably a valid birth certificate for Switzerland. Perhaps that is the foreign power Krugman was thinking of.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name...

Is it true that Ron Paul loves gold so much that he named his only begotten son in Congress, Rand Paul, after the gold mining company Randgold Resources, symbol GOLD?

Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' Talking about evolution? climate change? anti-science? No, but it might have been. That was a quote from an internal memo, written by a Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. executive in 1969, spelt out the...

It will keep pumping long after the thrill of warmongering is gone.

Top Facebook executives surpassed Zuckerberg in pay February 2, 2012 US Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg delivers an address entitled "Women as the Way Forward ", on January 27, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Facebook's chief operating officer made more than...

Is Newt Gingrich a Psychopath? Broadly speaking, psychologists test for the presence of these traits in would-be psychopaths: Superficial and grandiose notions of themselves; pathological lying and conning; impulsive behavior showing a need for stimulation without regard to consequence; a...

"He then makes an astonishing confession: “At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.” Here was one of the biggest investment banks in the...

TS data $SPX.X 12/30/2010 1257.88 12/30/2011 1257.91 Closed up .03 for the year. Congratulation to the Bulls.

Is it possible that there is still one Republican left not influenced by endless corporate lobbying? in this case oil and pipeline companies. Shouldn't the title of this piece be "Dave Heineman must go" ? "Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman said the State Department decision (on Canada-Gulf...

What is the difference between "building bridges with Capital Hill Republicans and develop an argument on behalf of the company" and lobbying? "Former Freddie Mac officials familiar with his work in 2006 say Gingrich was asked to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans and develop an argument...

“You’re blowing it with Fox News," Jobs told Murdoch. " "Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society." While Jobs and Murdoch hit it off with that publication, Jobs had harsh words for another News Corp. media property — Fox News. As Jobs and Murdoch got closer, Jobs...

Pakistan military/ISI is a U.S. funded terrorist organization. That would make US funding Pakistan funding Taliban fighting US. There you go, the Taliban is fighting so hard because US is fighting against itself.

The stated "fact" in the first paragraph is already wrong. Wind and hydro are already cheaper than coal and some forms of natural gas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative,[1][2][3][4] nonpartisan[5] think tank founded in 1943... Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.[7] enough said.

probably a gap up tomorrow. see 9/6/11

Krugman may be be right. A lot of people have behaved badly. Our politics have gone in different directions since Sept. 11.