This WaPo piece on the foreclosure crisis and the complete and total mess the banks have made of things is infuriating: Kevin Matthews, a Gulf War veteran, was initially rejected when he applied to his lender, USAA, for a modification of the mortgage on his Baltimore rowhouse. But when a housing counselor contacted USAA on …
Archives for October 2010
The Goldberg gambit
David Broder — in an otherwise surprisingly reasonable column — thinks Obama should saber-rattle to get re-elected: Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This …
College football open thread and book review
A few weeks Penguin books sent Balloon-Juice reader J a copy of “Death to the BCS” to review as part of the new Balloon-Juice reader review program. Here is the review reader J wrote: Death to the BCS is a hard-hitting and fact-filled expose that provides a sound argument for replacing the Bowl Championship Series …
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Rally thread
Everyone is asking for one.
Big ABC
This is not a joke, apparently: ABC News has confirmed Breitbart’s announcement that he will be bringing analysis live from Arizona on election eve, along with Dana Loesch, the editor of Breitbart’s Web site Big Journalism.
Stuff That Really Will Kill You
While fighter jets escorting a plane into JFK got wall-to-wall coverage, somehow this more dangerous incident on Tuesday received less attention: […][P]assengers on a recent American Airlines flight from Miami to Boston experienced a much more vivid sense of airborne peril when a 2-foot hole opened up in the plane’s fuselage about 30 minutes after …
Just Some Friendly Voting Advice, In With Your Paycheck
The media are calling this “voting advice” remarkably and disturbingly uniformly. Every single news article I looked at uses that misleading overly-mild phrase. There’s a state statute that specifically disallows this form of coercion, so it’s not just friendly “advice”, according to the Ohio legislature, despite the attempt to minimize it: A handful of McDonald’s …
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