Once you’re done reading what David Byrne thinks of Detroit, I’d like for you to check out Matt Taibbi’s new piece in Rolling Stone. Here’s a clip from the beginning of the article, at which point Taibbi is talking about being at a Palin rally in Kentucky, surrounded by hefty middle-aged folks on motor scooters. […]
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi has a hard-hitting new piece on the Obama administration’s “Big Sellout” to Wall Street… Here’s a clip: …What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic […]
It looks like the President’s healthcare bill is headed for failure. Here’s a clip from the Associated Press: After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities but incorporates provisions to slow the explosive rise in medical costs, officials […]
I was just reading this piece in today’s New York Times on the enormous profits being posted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and I was reminded of an article I read a week or so ago in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi. Here are clips from both for your consideration. First, the New York […]
For the most part, I’ve been willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt concerning his handling of the economy. My assumption up until now has been that he knows that, in the long run, several substantive changes need to be made to the system, but, right now, all he cares about is avoiding […]
