There is a serious feud ongoing between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer. Stewart, as you probably know, used the Daily Show and other venues to slam the financial TV networks in general and CNBC specifically. The Mad Money host, who has become famous by instructing viewers to buy and sell individual stoc...

A while back, I placed my tongue squarely in cheek and suggested that people buy second homes in Detroit, where the average price of a house is now just $7,500. Well, it's actually happening. In fact, opportunistic couples are buying up entire blocks and turning them into little urban oases. From th...

I saw this little gem on National Review online. I think it says a lot about modern conservative thought. Stick with me all the way through; I think it's worth it. The doctors, lawyers, engineers, executives, serious small-business owners, top salespeople, and other professionals and entrepreneurs w...

I've gotten angry before at what I see as Washington's bastardization of expertise. More evidence today, in what Andrew calls the "Kristol Syndrome": [Professor Philip Tetlock of the University of California, Berkeley] studied pundits and discovered they were, to a rough approximation, always wrong ...

Carl Malamud is a badass. If you are a techie or a transparency geek, you probably already know who he is. If you've never heard of him, he is an internet pioneer who has worked for decades, at times using renegade means, to make government information public. He fought to make the information in th...

Twelve months ago, Mitt Romney made a hero's entrance but a loser's exit here at CPAC. Trailing in the Republican Primary, but recently accepted as the far right's representative in the field, Romney entered the room to thunderous applause but used his speech to make a surprise withdrawal from the r...

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton believes the security of the United States is at dire risk under the Obama administration. And before a gathering of conservatives in Washington on Thursday morning,  he suggested, as something of a joke, that President Barack Obama might learn a needed lesson i...

I'm glad Dayo Olopade wrote about Eric Holder's speech to his staff at the Department of Justice. Holder tackles race in America in a remarkably straight-forward and clear-eyed way. Dayo calls it "confrontational," and indeed, it's hard to read sentences like these -- "in things racial we have alway...

I think time is short for Roland. Especially considering these newest revelations: The names of lobbying clients that Sen. Roland W. Burris declared to a state legislative panel do not match those on records he filed over the last decade with Illinois and Chicago agencies, a CQ analysis of the recor...

Ah, the use of front groups by the Big Business lobby. Always so much fun. Here's the latest example, spotted by the Center for Responsive Politics' Public Integrity's blog, PaperTrail, when it investigated this online advertisement against Labor Secretary-designate Hilda Solis: Clicking on the ad t...