While investors express dismay and shock about Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, nothing about the affair is even slightly surprising. The scandal is perfectly understandable in light of a fundamental truth that nobody wants to accept: Wall Street itself is nothing but a grand Ponzi scam. Wall Street is institutionalized...
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Sarah Palin will not go away, apparently unaware that losing an election requires the loser to cede power to the victor. Staying in the limelight, she is now assigning blame for her failures, conveniently never pointing the spotlight on herself. Introspection requires some self-awareness, something she apparently lacks completely....
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During a week in which news was dominated by the kleptomania of Governor Blagojevich, the world was stirring with other momentous events that garnered little attention individually, and none as a confluence of related stories. But that connectedness between seemingly disparate news items is where our interest should be directed....
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The most shocking aspect of Dick Cheney’s recent interview to shore up a failed legacy is that he can say anything that is still shocking. But Cheney truly outdid himself on Fox News on Sunday, and he has crossed the threshold into unambiguous criminality.

With that curmudgeonly half-smile reminiscent of a predatory...
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