The new guys running the Treasury Department are such jokers! They said that federal bailout money required a financial institution to participate in screwing over mortgage loan holders. Ha! And you believed them! Now it turns out that Treasury was just joshing, folks. No whips and chains. Yet. Here...

Everybody but me has likely either seen or read Rush’s speech at CPAC over the weekend: Notice the CNN newscaster insisting that Rush has commandeered the Republican Party, and is now its de facto leader… …a talking point that Hugh Hewitt disagrees with. And so do I. Scattered ef...

CNBC reporter Rick Santelli ignited a spontaneous protest on the trading floor in Chicago against President Obama’s proposal to bail out homeowners in default of their mortgage — by forcing everybody else to pony up the dough. Grassroots organizers of the National Chicago Tea Party are m...

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time… but eventually market forces will rise up and bite you in the butt. As predicted, both General Motors and Chrysler are back, hat in hand, asking for more money. This time, taxpayers are not bamboozled by ...

Watch today and the rest of the week for a new phrase: success payments. That’s a proposal by the Obama Administration to help mortgage-holders with otherwise good credit get caught up and avoid foreclosure. Mike Allen at Politico’s Playbook describes success payments and another compone...

No more eager beavers in Beaverton: Beaver, USA Buy From Art.com Pinnacle Bank, Beaverton, Oregon, was closed today by the Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered in...

From the nicely acid-dipped keyboard of the folks at Club for Growth: Red Dwarf Star & Gas Giant Buy From Art.com The Club for Growth’s award to the first Comrade of the Month goes to…Democratic Rep. Barney Frank (MA-04). As Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Frank ...

Jay Mathews has written an easily readable account of how two young men, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, turned their own idealism and willingness to bend the rules into a nationwide network of successful charter schools under the umbrella name of KIPP — Knowledge is Power Program. The books is ...

In another article in a trend asserting the mere humanity of Barack Obama, Jeanne Cummings reports that the sleek and shining communications machine that was the Obama campaign hit a pothole in the driveway at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Conservatives Hunting Down Liberals Buy From Art.com The Obama t...

As many right-leaning commentators have noted, supporters of Barack Obama frequently act like he is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ — so frequently that non-supporters coined the uncomplimentary label “Obamessiah” (among others). Obama cast a hex on journalists, transforming snar...