Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett last night finally called an end to his ill-advised investigation into the undisputed facts of President Obama’s birth.
Hawaii was even kind enough to furnish him with a souvenir of the week that was.
House GOP to Obama: You’re in “La-La Land” on a debt limit increase.
The Facebook IPO as a cultural event was bizarro, especially if you suffered with a vicious hangover after the .com boom. But the allegations of selective disclosure of material information about the company’s business prospects to preferred investors in advance of the IPO? That’s a different story entirely. We’ve put together a timeline of the events relevant to these new allegations.
It could turn out that the selective disclosure investigations may provide us, as if we needed it (see, e.g., JP Morgan), with another window into the systemic corruption of Wall Street. In that sense, these allegations may reveal less about Facebook, Inc., than about a financial system that survived its own self-inflicted near-death experience in 2008 with its venality intact.
It won’t be easy. I know. But take a moment to plumb the depths of your memory and peer far back through the mists of time to … last Friday, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO. And then compare that to today, when CNBC was freaking out over Facebook’s IPO for entirely different reasons.
The Romney campaign seems to have decided that it can’t repair the damage to his chances with Hispanics post-primary and he’ll focus on getting votes elsewhere.
Why store data in a thumb drive, when you could actually store it in your thumb?
Sara Libby takes a close look at how reapportionment in state legislatures after the 2010 census disproportionately affected female incumbents — of both parties.
I don’t know how many different stories we’ve written on this same general theme — more than 100? — but it has been the driving dynamic of U.S. politics for three years now and shows no sign of being resolved anytime soon: a smart, cogent, practical, and likely successful fix for the economy and the federal budget is right there for the taking if only Republicans would put empirical economic evidence ahead of anti-tax ideology.