Suffice it to say that – four decades after Watergate – nothing much has changed when it comes to the abuse of Executive Branch power, and the famous dictum of Lord Acton remains true: power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Like Captain Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca, I am “shocked… shocked” to find that gambling has been going on in the mortgage-backed securities business. And so, apparently, is the[...]
The White House today invoked executive privilege, refusing to give the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee documents to assist in the investigation of the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking operation.[...]
I was a panelist last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Chicago on Fast and Furious. The panel answered the question raised in an article by my[...]
FIRE · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
The legal immorality of the Obama administration and its Department of Justice now stands fully exposed. And even some lawyers are shocked. To be sure, many people think lawyers are[...]
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