We have a sneak preview of George Will’s latest column, which is a defense of his earlier, flawed column wherein he dug his contrarian heels in on global climate change.
Conservatives are jamming to CCR, the Beatles, and Smashmouth while a woman dressed as a polar bear hands out ice cream sandwiches. Matt Cooper surveys the scene at CPAC.
We’ve been following the endless Franken-Coleman Recount/Trial really, really closely over the almost four months since the November election. Wearing my hat as a publisher, you just can’t get enough of the endless stream of antic, nonsensical and hilarious posts this story generates. I mean, how couldn’t you with a race pitting a professional comic against a professional clown?
Anyway, Eric Kleefeld has been our reporter-blogger on this story from the beginning. And I was just leafing through his posts over recent days. And I felt a great deal of pride in the amazing job he’s done. I don’t think there is any better, more detailed or more entertaining coverage of this story out there.
So, if you’d like to give Eric props, just click ‘recommend’ on this post to run up the number and of course you can always send emails to him at our comments address up on the upper right.
Sir Allen Stanford’s ‘Chief Investment Officer’ arrested for obstruction (stemming from recent SEC testimony), cooling her heels at the federal detention center in downtown Houston.
I’m going to start feeling better, or at least stop feeling worse, when I hear about the release of a major economic indicator that the economic forecasters hadn’t assumed — even after all the gloom and pessimism — would be better than it turned out to be. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not looking for ‘good’ numbers. I expect them all to be bad for some time to come. What continues to surprise me, however, is that even after we’ve gotten to an apparent consensus that we are in for a recession that is much more severe than anything we’ve endured in the post-war era, and even after six months in which each successive month looked worse than the last, that with each new number we’re still surprised that it’s even worse than we’d realized — still worse than the consensus assumptions.
Maybe we need better assumers before we can get out of this mess.
In a 11:45 a.m. ET speech at Camp Lejeune, N.C., President Obama will present his plan for a withdrawal from Iraq. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.