Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

Months before General David Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA, an anonymous reader wrote a letter to the New York Times’ Ethicist column complaining about an affair his wife, presumably Paula Broadwell, was having with a “government executive”. In response to the letter, Chuck Klosterman of The Ethicist wrote:
The fact that you’re willing to [...]

From NBC News First Read:

From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.
Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer [...]

7pm: Polls close in Virginia
7:02pm: Virginia too close to call. Not surprising.
7:10pm: Exit polls: Democrats outpacing Republicans and independents in Virginia.
7:10pm: Romney is toast if Virginia goes blue
7:30pm: Polls close in the big enchilada, Ohio. Too close to call. Again, not surprising at poll closing.
7:38pm: FYI. Usually rural counties come in first in Virginia. So [...]

The Romney campaign has decided to make a last minute push into Pennsylvania and the political scribes are now spinning the story that Pennsylvania, long considered to be leaning Obama, may suddenly be in play since the polls have tightened. This has a number of Democrats nervous. I’m not buying it.
This is what I wrote [...]

It has been a long long time since I’ve written a blog post. However, it’s time to make election predictions. So here goes mine.
I predict that this Tuesday President Barack Obama will be re-elected for a second term. I predict a national popular vote margin of 51.5% to 48.5% for Barack Obama. I predict an [...]

Sarah Palin just resigned as Alaska governor. She announced her resignation in an odd rambling speech. Pundits in the media are speculating the resignation frees her up to run for president in 2012. Hogwash. No one resigns their first term as Governor with such a nutball speech and expects to have a national political future. She [...]

About a month ago I questioned why Neel Kashkari - the incompetent Treasury official in charge of the TARP program - was still employed. Today, we got some good news.
Neel Kashkari is gone:
Herbert M. Allison Jr., the chief executive of Fannie Mae for the last six months, has emerged as a candidate to become the [...]

Today The Daily Star published my op-ed “Who is ‘Sunita Paul’?” The op-ed expands on my post on Sunita Paul from last week.
The full op-ed follows:
———–
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Who is ’Sunita Paul’? 
Mashuqur Rahman
“SUNITA PAUL” is an “Indian journalist” who has been writing inflammatory articles on Bangladesh in little known foreign online outlets. “Sunita Paul” is also [...]

Sunita Paul is a plagiarist.
Sunita Paul is a “journalist” who has recently been publishing a series of sensational articles about Bangladesh. She has caused quite a stir because her articles make extraordinary claims, based on anonymous sources, about the political situation in Bangladesh. Extraordinary claims without much factual support however require a significant leap of faith by the reader. [...]

The Obama administration has lost patience with General Motors and has demanded that it restructure before it will get any more government help. That seems logical enough. Yet, when both the Obama administration and the Bush administration have given hundreds of billions of dollars to banks, that money came with no strings attached.
In demanding General [...]