Finally! Some real “digging” into a prominent figure not named Sarah Palin. Or Todd Palin. Or Bristol Palin. Or Trig Palin. Or Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy. — But don’t get too excited. The NYT’s Jodi Kantor wasn’t interested in vetting Barack Obama — or even John McCain, for that matter. No, in this instance the target of “inquiry” was far more crucial: Cindy McCain. And Ms Kantor sought the help

Charles W. Calomiris, a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of “U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective” (Cambridge 2006), writing in the WSJ: It’s grind-your-favorite-axe day on the network news shows. The financial crisis is all the fault of dreaded “deregulation,” shout some pundits; others blame the “small government” mentality of the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress. But haven’t federal and state tax revenues been growing even

Now that SCOTUS has shot down Repubs for lacking standing to sue over voter fraud in Ohio, efforts such as this one are increasingly likely. Cheat first, let it get sorted out later, is the strategy, it seems — because no one will force the recall of an elected President. At least, that’s the underlying assumption. And the ends, as we know, justify the means. Of course, the added long-term