Poor, poor Jebbie Bush, younger brother to El Birdbrain, lamenting that his days as a politician are now over....

About 10 days ago, the Justice Department announced a few changes that are going to make it just a bit easier for corporate frauds to do their work and get away with it.  Not that this is how the change is being publicly pitched, of course.

From the BLS report on Mass Layoffs for November:

From an AP story dated today:

Another beauty from yesterday's press gaggle at the White House:

Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary, purported intellectual, self-reported man of objectivity and frankness.

Yeah, right.

Exercising the full majesty of his office, and bringing to bear his full powers of oratory, the President used his press conference this morning to tell the American people, who remain under the most massive consumer debt ever compiled on the face of the planet (and who live in a country where many knowledgeable people are warning of an overall "debt bomb") this:

The U.K.'s Independent has a piece on David Cameron's views of Iraq and British foreign policy that pretty much state the obvious (though Blair disagrees with the obvious, much as Bush would).

Proving that "we" never learn our lesson, the SEC and Federal Reserve Board have teamed up to produce a proposed new regulation that just might be setting the stage for yet another series of future scandals.

Like all regulatory agencies, the FCC is bound to regulate a specific industry to ensure that it serves the public interest, not to serve as cheerleaders for the industry.  Recent comments by FCC member Robert McDowell leave little doubt that he, and by extension the agency, really have no intention of exercising their authority in the public interest.

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