If McCain and that part of the GOP who saw this coming don’t get out in front of this credit mess and start hammering away at the blame game the Dems and their media myrmidons are pushing, we could conceivably end up with the lunatics in charge of the asylum. Or, to put it another way, clear the sidewalk: we need space for bread lines, baby!: It was a room

Others have mentioned this July piece by Paul Gigot — which includes links to other WSJ pieces, as well as to response pieces from Raines, Rep Oxley, and Sen Conrad — so I figured I’d link it here for posterity’s sake. The meat and potatoes: Freddie’s accounting fiasco became public in 2003, while Fannie’s accounting blew up in 2004. Mr. Raines was forced to resign, and a report by regulator

It’s not just an infuriatingly monotonous eighties angst band anymore. Physics question: just how deep can one dig the memory hole before burrowing through the entirety of the earth and resurfacing in China? And once there, how will China’s own memory hole react to the sudden appearance of its western equal — mini black hole? Or the sudden, spontaneous erection of Disneyland Beijing, built from nothing but magma and the

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