MERS is Dead: Long Live MERS Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) has generated … [Read more...]
George Mantor | Take Our Guns? Over our Dead Bodies!
Take Our Guns? Over our Dead Bodies! Well, maybe. Or the dead bodies of our children and friends. I … [Read more...]
Open thread: The Greek elections; Update: Coalition may be in chaos
Choices. The elections in Greece have come to a halt and now we’re just waiting for them to … [Read more...]
Sen. Graham: NLRB is “becoming the Grim Reaper of job creation”
"Businesspeople from over the country have indicated to me that this ruling is basically creating … [Read more...]
Is Obama going to lose the Arkansas Democratic primary?
Dude? Via Jorge Bonilla in the Greenroom, who sounds the call for “Operation Razorback … [Read more...]
NC Dem chair resigns … then unresigns
Chaos. The soap opera continued this weekend in North Carolina, where a sexual harassment complaint … [Read more...]
George Mantor | Fight or Flight – How long will it be before the .01% has it all?
Fight or Flight By George W. Mantor I’m a pacifist; up to a point; but, I’m also a pragmatist. … [Read more...]
Walker raises $13 million in three months to fight recall
Plus, how Wisconsin's Left plans to embrace chaos. Democrats hoping to unseat Governor Scott Walker … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Trouble. “Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Trouble. “Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a … [Read more...]
Quotes of the day
Chaos. “If their usual practice holds, the justices will convene privately on Friday in a … [Read more...]
Dem strategist’s robocall to Michigan Dems: Get out there tomorrow and vote for Rick Santorum
Plus: Santorum robocalling Dems too? Kos said it was coming and now here it is. Chaos. Michigan … [Read more...]
The Disorderly Default in Your Closet Eupdate
Another day, another Greek deal to end them all (more on that soon). Amid the political din, legal … [Read more...]
What Does Wall Street Do for You? (Harm IMHO) Perhaps the best way to really appreciate what Wall Street does is to imagine life without it.
What Does Wall Street Do for You? Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even … [Read more...]
George Mantor | An Optimists Guide to 2012
An Optimists Guide to 2012 Butch to Sundance, “What’s the matter with you?” “I can’t … [Read more...]
Ron Paul now the favorite on InTrade to win Iowa
Endgame. Via Dave Weigel, I’m torn between hoping it doesn’t happen since that would … [Read more...]
Chaos: Pakistan wants U.S. drone base shut after NATO attack kills 26 Pakistani troops
Shadows. Such is the state of U.S./Pakistan relations that no one seems fully confident this was … [Read more...]
New Jersey | Legal Issues Slow Foreclosures – Bank of New York v. Laks
Legal Issues Slow Foreclosures In a small Bergen County courtroom one recent Friday, a … [Read more...]
George Mantor | Flash Point, Martial law, and Our Next President
Flash Point, Martial law, and Our Next President And now we have a martyr, Scott Olsen, the first … [Read more...]
Iowa GOP: January 3rd caucus date is “set in stone”
Sacrifice? I’m not sure which emotion to feel more intensely — anger over having to … [Read more...]
George Mantor | Random Thoughts While Cleaning Out the Cat Box
“Losers? Not yet anyway. Here is how I see us. We have been beaten to a purple jelly. We … [Read more...]
Chaos: Qaddafi’s heir apparent, allegedly captured yesterday by rebels, now back on the streets of Tripoli
What? This makes not one but two Qaddafi boys who are now loose after having supposedly been … [Read more...]
As armed conflict erupts, Erdogan demonstrates his actual priority
If it quacks like neo-Ottomanism... If you don’t believe Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has … [Read more...]
Change: Obama’s job approval now at … 39%
Downgrade. Alternate headline: “Blogger can’t believe Obama’s job approval still … [Read more...]