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Late last week, Bloomberg News reported that the New York Federal Reserve Bank — then under the leadership (or rather, lack of leadership) of Tim Geithner — presided over a systemic effort in the fall of 2008 to suppress public disclosure of ailing insurer AIG’s backdoor bailout payments to banks [...]

(Photoshop via Doug Ross)
New York Times columnist David Brooks will never let an opportunity pass to remind you that he is an intellectual and you are a grimy member of the unwashed masses. His column today pays a back-handed tribute to the success of the Tea Party movement…while bemoaning the decline of influence among the [...]

Meow.

Percy Sutton and Malcolm X, 1963.
Well, well, well.
The Congressional Black Caucus is trying to shake down the White House — and taxpayers — by holding a Democrat financial regulation “reform” bill hostage until Team Obama stuffs it with taxpayer goodies for a minority-owned radio station and other minority-owned businesses.
The story is here and here. [...]

If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.
- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy Stern [...]

Police arrested 18 SEIU Purple Shirts yesterday in San Francisco after their protest of city layoffs and budget cuts caused a traffic jam and massive headaches for other residents trying to commute to and from, you know, work:
Police arrested 18 members of the Service Employees International Union on Monday night after they blocked rush hour [...]

Hmmm. The Associated Press reports that several financial giants in New York received swine flu vaccine doses while other at-risk residents continue to wait in long lines for limited supplies:
Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that [...]

Same old, same old.

The Naked Emperor revisited.

“Reckless.”

My syndicated column today spotlights the pay czar’s power grab and the cover it provides both the White House and Congress for supporting, enabling, and rewarding the failures of the TARP bailout recipients in the first place.
Team Obama has provisionally approved the AIG CEO’s $7 million compensation package. Here’s Feinberg’s verdict on Weil, Gotshal & [...]

“Anything is possible.”

To the cronies go the spoils. So it was during the Bush administration. So it is during the Age of Hope and Change:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc said quarterly earnings surged 33 percent on blowout trading results, trouncing expectations and putting the bank on pace for windfall bonuses that could draw more unwanted public scrutiny.
The [...]

Government Sachs.

My column today looks at the abusive relationship between Barack Obama and the hedge fund industry. He keeps taking their money. They keep getting publicly tongue-lashed. Looks like the cycle has ended. Last week, non-TARP lenders objected to the UAW-pandering Chrysler deal. This week, AQR Capital Management LLC hedge fund manager Cliff Asness — at [...]

Cashin’ in.

Grabby.

Before I get to my syndicated column today, I must remind you of an unctuous, heavy-breathing piece written by New York Times columnist David Brooks on Nov. 21 of last year. Seems like eons ago. I blogged about the bordering-on-obscene column in a post titled “Ivy League ejaculations.” Here’s a bit of Brooks’ paean to [...]

Bill’s bills.

Smarty pants. Panting smarty.

Taste the crap sandwich.

Don’t swallow.

“Hank is for Hank.”

There’s really only one thing to say about tonight’s announcement that the weasel feds have changed their minds and will fork over $85 billion to rescue troubled insurer AIG:
(*$&^(&)%(&)*(^&*%&@!!!@#^@!!!!!!!
I listened to a lot of foolish people praising the government earlier today for not giving in to bailout pressure.
I was not one of them.
Why? Because [...]

Snort-worthy.

Supporters held a third rally this weekend for the Camp Pendleton 8. The Los Angeles Times reports several hundred turned out.
Reader James sends a link to video of the event posted at YouTube. Here it is (moved to extended entry):
The Tracy Press reports Article 32 hearings are set to start as early as this Wednesday:
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Debra Burlingame exposes the squandering of 9/11 memorial funds:
The American people, watching the horrific scenes in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, voiced nary a peep of dissent when the federal government handed over $21 billion in disaster relief–$18 billion in rebuilding bonds and tax credits, and $2.8 billion in immediate cash grants–to the state and [...]