Where No Mortgage News Is Fit to Print
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 22nd, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Where No Mortgage News Is Fit to Print
Peter Wallison, The American
When Joe Nocera was given a regular op-ed column in the New York Times, there was kind of a collective “uh-oh” among people who have watched the gradual slide of that page into Krugmanism and ideological irrelevance. I was one of them, but thought there might be some hope. Some of his columns in the Times business section had suggested a glimmering of a willingness to consider other points of view and even facts.At first, I was disappointed. As he said in today’s column, he called my dissent from the majority report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission…
Romney as Nixon? 2012 Offers Unsettling Echo for GOP
Sean Trende, RCP
Throughout this seemingly endless election season, analysts have thrown out a variety of historical analogies to help explain the current race. Some have suggested that this election is like 1948's (the one postwar example we have of a president winning re-election amid a sluggish economy), while others have looked to 1980, where a strong conservative defied the oddsmakers' bets and defeated an incumbent the country perceived as hyper-liberal.One year that has received scant attention is 1968. Michael Barone recently suggested this parallel — in the context of the Occupy Wall…
If Paul Wins Caucuses, Iowa Might Be Loser
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
He who surges last surges best. Newt Gingrich rose from the dead too soon — or at least with too little money to protect himself on the cluttered airwaves of Iowa.Three weeks before Republicans vote in the Jan. 3 caucuses there, Gingrich is being hammered by negative ads from rival campaigns and their supporters and he's slipping badly. Nate Silver, the numbers wonder at the New York Times, gives Gingrich, the front-runner just weeks ago, only a 15 percent chance of winning Iowa.
Obama: A Legend in His Own Mind
John Hinderaker, PowerLine
There was an initially-overlooked moment in President Obama's recent interview with 60 Minutes. Excerpts from the interview were played on television, and CBS posted the interview in its entirety on its web site. Left on the cutting-room floor, it turned out, was a revealing moment when Obama judged himself against the greats of past eras:The "60 Minutes Overtime" video shows Obama telling correspondent Steve Kroft:
Gingrich’s Extremism on Judges
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In Newt Gingrich's America, states that balked at desegregating their schools could have ignored the Supreme Court with impunity.In Gingrich's America, if the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate to obtain health insurance, a re-elected President Obama would be free to ignore the ruling and order the mandate enforced.These are not far-fetched extrapolations of Gingrich's views. They derive directly from his arguments for curbing the power of what he views as a “grotesquely dictatorial” judiciary.At the center of his critique is Cooper v….
