Palin continues to cast herself as a victim of a sinister "partisan" conspiracy directed by Obama's White House against her. It's a sad joke that reveals the Palin camp's cultish paranoia and abject dishonesty.
The sheer number of observations of unusual behavior by Palin would certainly give the disinterested observer reason to question her mental stability.
Anyone can talk tough when markets are calm. But in the middle of a financial crisis it takes a special breed of hard-ass to insist on haircuts, since no one can be sure that squeezing creditors won't shut down the entire bond market.
How much political power do the big banks have? I'd like to air a skeptical note and ask whether they're really running the show. To most people t...
The very purpose of a PAC is to raise and spend money to elect candidates. But these filings are proof of the willingness of Ms. Palin to possibly use and abuse donors to her PAC.
She's the queen of the tea party rabble-rousers and does more for lipstick than a pitbull could ever hope to. And while my opinion on death panel Pali...
Michael Lewis is the non-fiction novelist of our apocalyptic American mindset in 2010 and the author of The Big Short. Listen to an interview here.
Sarah's own PAC suggests a philosophy that is directly contrary to the notion that wholesalers should have any role in the sale of liquor.
In The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, Elif Batuman succeeds at the almost impossible: the Professor-written, trade-press, paper-back of the otherwise undecipherable dissertation.
I wish for a new Disney movie called Sleeping Beauty-Part II, staring Sarah Palin.
When I got my MA in English Lit I had to read more than 100 great works. I was 22, and didn't have much of an idea about the great themes or historical context. I was overwhelmed and pretty clueless. But the following books changed my life
"Shoot with accuracy; aim high and remember it takes blood, sweat and tears to win" is a frightening statement, Sarah. It is not funny; it is threatening.
It seems everybody wants to write like Jeffrey Fox. I framed Jeff Fox as the new Machiavelli, explaining to the princes of the 21st century how the business world really worked.
On March 9, 2010, Karl Rove, "Bush's Brain" released a self-aggrandizing contrivance of his political past, Courage and Consequence, in all of its har...
Publisher HarperCollins has announced Sarah Palin's next venture in book makin.' According to them, she is working on a "celebration of American virtues and strengths." Good Lord, you've got to be kidding.
Palin has left a wide swath of human collateral damage in her wake. Now add the inimitable Meg Stapleton to the list.
The Kardashians look like Ozzie and Harriet compared to the Palins. It's perfect, a horribly dysfunctional, morally bankrupt, greedy, fame-obsessed, Christian conservative family, with guns! Sign me up!
According to the spokesperson, the CIA first noted a dramatic increase in the unintelligible utterances around the time of the launch of Gov. Palin's book, Going Rogue.
I've got an idea for how to change independent film and kick-start the kind of serious attention that video-on-demand seems to require. And it all s...
When Ferris speaks, he does not come across as a rock star, an object of literary affection, or someone who has grown a large head from his success.
For the past few years, the answer for many first time authors has come in the form of participating in a collaborative book project.
