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Credit Card Companies Scrambling To Screw You Now While They Still Can

To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website or blog. Got a tip? Let us know! Don't be angry that the Bear Stearns hedge funders got acquitted. It's a great signal for our criminal justice system. Dear Lloyd Blankfein: the ...

From HENRY BLODGET AND LAWRENCE DELEVINGNE, The Business Insider,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Lloyd Blankfein

Politico: U.S. Must Deloy More Foreign Diplomacy Personnel

Eight former Secretaries of State jointly argue that national security requires more sufficient personnel in this article on funding for development and diplomacy. Excerpt: National security is about more than bullets. "Smart power," "soft power" and ...

From HENRY A. KISSINGER, GEORGE SHULTZ, JAMES A. BAKER, LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER, WARREN CHRISTOPHER, MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT, COLIN L. POWELL AND CONDOLEEZZA RICE, Council on Foreign Relations,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Robert Gates

A Slow Crash and Burn

Most of us have a certain image in mind of the term "heart attack." We envision a grab for the left chest or upper left arm, a grimace of pain, and a collapse to the floor. "Why you have to go eatin' all that pork?" Richard Pryor's heart demands of ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Richard Pryor

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

When we first moved to North Andover, Massachusetts, in late summer 2002, I made an effort to make new friends. Easier tried than accomplished, even when you have something obvious in common. An ancient bent geezer down the street from us spent a whole ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  7 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Jim Walsh

Nothing Else to Do

Beautiful fall weather has come to Northeastern Massachusetts, the kind of calm, golden, balmy day when I would, not too long ago, have gone out joyously to play golf. With my right shoulder gone -- no more rotator cuff at all, the joint grinding bone ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  10 Oct 2008

Both Sides of the Financial Crisis

We know about the part played by Fannie-Freddie in its origins. But what about the role of global economic growth and corresponding growth in money supply and demand for new forms of investment? ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  3 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Fannie Mae,  Freddie Mac,  New York Post,  Jeff Jacoby,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

My First Big Scoop

When I started working at the little chain of four suburban newspapers where my Dad was the advertising manager, I got the usual first assignment. Editor Bob Bork gave me a stack of press releases and told me to see if there was anything worthwhile to ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  26 Sep 2008

How to Read a Hundred Books

In the early 1970s, I worked at a publisher's representative's office in San Francisco, and made one of the best friends I've ever had. Lillian, the office manager, sat across from me, and she and I talked books and politics and life for the whole time ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  19 Sep 2008
Related Topics: James Lee Burke,  Raymond Chandler,  Dashiell Hammett,  John Grisham,  Jonathan Kellerman

The Picture

When I made my three-day trip to Los Angeles to get evaluated for a kidney transplant, I got back in touch with my old friend Hanna, whom I hadn't seen or communicated with in some 20 years. We had a nice afternoon's visit, and we filled each other in ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  12 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Virgin Mary

Memories of Wasilla

In the summer of 1983, I worked for four straight months, six nights a week, in a rock and roll band that played the lounge of the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel. I had gotten a kidney transplant two years before, and I was in flourishing good health. I was ...

From LAWRENCE HENRY, American Spectator,  5 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Sarah Palin

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