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If business forecasting resembles a bunch of gamblers huddled around a casino craps table, it is because they are ignoring the most important determinant of economic good and ill. Their predictions have the same reliability as the shooter’s likelihood of rolling a seven. From “snake eyes” to “box cars” and beyond, the only important number is the market price of crude oil. When oil prices peaked in June, 2008,...

"Instead, they are people, either in politics or close observers, who once held an unromantically high opinion of Obama. They were important to his rise, and are likely more important to the success or failure of his presidency than Obama or his distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team appreciate." Your right, it wasn't romantically motivated it was motivated by greed and thoughts of a great American Society that...

   Beesman : Nov. 23, 2009 - 6:31 AM EST   Take up Kennedy's mantle? Not another shameless invocation of the dead senator, just stop with the smarmy pointless "do it for the Gipper" baloney. Ted Kennedy soothed his reprobate soul by seeking to distract the world from his own moral bankruptcy. Remember the "not in my backyard" backdoor dealing on the windmills that spoiled his view at Martha's...

Clinically, insane does not mean without a rational-sounding reason. Even schizophrenics will adopt a “story” that could make sense but is insane in time and space or motive and outcome. So what if Hasan yelled "Allah Akbar" or communicated with a radical mullah? Would you have kept all Jews under surveillance because of the Unibomber? Does Hasan’s MO mean we must suspect all the Muslims who pass us on the street sane...

Yes. We should get drunk and drive our car off of a bridge and commit vehicular homicide but get away with it because we left the scene of the crime and because our family is wealthy and politically powerful. We should also become alcoholics and support every immoral cause like gay marriage, abortion, and stealing from the middle class. 

take up the mantle? Alright gimme 6 fingers of Chivas, a young lady that's not my wife, and the keys to the car...oh and don't forget to throw in a spoiled rotten brat of a son...

Three things: #1 - Craig isn't lily pure himself as far as loyalty goes: Yet in 2008, he supported Obama for the nomination – not so much a turning against Hillary Clinton as being impressed early, as were some other prominent Washingtonians, by the then-state senator but would-be U.S. Senate candidate at a fundraiser held by Vernon Jordan, seeing Obama as the first potentially inspiring Democratic figure since Robert Kennedy. Some...