Yesterday, Mayor Daley the Younger of Chicago — not to be confused with his father — announced that he would not seek a 7th term in office. Quicker than most people can eat a Chicago-style hot dog, speculation began that Rahm Emanuel would run for the position. This speculation is serious enough that even CNN [...]
The Nevada race for Senate continues to be close. But this week the Las Vegas Review Journal — our paper of record, serving roughly 75% of the state’s population — did a different poll. They found that 2/3 of people who support Sharron Angle wish the Republican candidate were someone else, along with 8 in [...]
I hate to waste a lot of space on a Senate race, but this is Harry Reid we are talking about. Since he is the Majority Leader of the Senate, and it is polite to say that our other Senator is “embattled,” this is a big deal. Senator Reid’s opponent, Sharron Angle, has really been [...]
Or, Senate Decides its Just Fine to be a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Fortune 500 and Special Interests. Seriously. The Senate voted 57 to 41 on largely party lines to defeat what Harry Reid called “a bill whose principles both parties once supported and that 9 in 10 Americans want us to pass,” despite [...]
Just about everybody thinks that Elizabeth Warren would be the absolute best qualified and most knowledgeable person to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Everybody except Timmy Geithner and the big financial institutions that got us into our current mess and stand to be regulated by the bureau, of course. After all, she might do [...]
Raise your hand if you think your net worth is over a million dollars! If your hand is up, you are in a very, very small minority. It’s been some years since I have had the occasion to say anything about the estate tax. However, now the temporary rollback of that tax is about to [...]
And no, I’m not talking about the two multi-acre blazes within 4o miles of Las Vegas. Well, the internet has been all abuzz over the latest from Sharron Angle. Everybody and their dog has already had something to say about her latest interview, including the guy who interviewed her. No wonder she does so few [...]
In the last 24 hours I have switched cell phones and had my RSS reader suddenly stop working. As a result, I’ve spent much of the last day digging out and trying to organize things — and that’s no easy task. So as much as I would like to write something deeper, I’ll be talking [...]
A few minutes ago I read a seriously wrong post on Firedoglake called Reid Seeks Bubble Re-Inflation. The author accuses Senator Harry Reid of trying to reinflate the housing bubble by extending the home buyer tax credit, presumably saving the Las Vegas economy and ensuring his re-election this fall. Let’s step back and look at [...]
Today I’ll be doing a little follow up on Tuesday’s Nevada Primaries, specifically the Republican nominees. If you aren’t curious about who Harry Reid is running against, scroll down to In Closing. Harry Reid will be running against Sharron Angle, who has been endorsed by at least one “tea party” group. But it seems that [...]
